To celebrate the arrival of a new year, we have launched a number of new years in Here Be Monsters. New Trophy System First off, we have introduced a new Trophy system into the game which gives you milestones to aim for as you’re freely exploring the game, not to mention a tidy bit of [...]

It’s that time of the year again and here in the world of Here Be Monsters things are getting interesting too. From 17th December to new years day, as you come into the game every day you’ll get a +15 luck (which significantly boosts your chance of catching tough monsters) as well as limited editions [...]

Just a quick note to say that I have made some minor changes to DynamoDb.SQL and released version 1.0.7 of the library to Nuget, here’s a list of the changes: fixed a bug with LIMIT when there is insufficient number of elements using the DynamoDBContext. added support for counting the number of matching items with [...]

NOTE: if you’re unfamiliar with how PostSharp works under the hood, I highly recommend that you check out Dustin Davis’ excellent PostSharp Principles series of blog posts here. The Problem The new async/await keywords in C# are pretty awesome, and makes life an awful lot easier when writing asynchronous and non-blocking IO code. However, for [...]

Just a quick note to say that I have made some minor changes to DynamoDb.SQL to: Add support for specifying the ScanIndexForward option(see DynamoDB API doc here for detail) in a Query operation using an optional “ORDER” clause Fixed a bug where when querying using the extension methods on the DynamoDBContext class, the LIMIT clause [...]