Congratulations to Mark Dickenson (aka Panama Jack) and Rick Thomson (aka Tarnus) on their recent release of Alien Assault Traders 0.30. It’s been in development for a while now and it’s cool to see the end product finally let loose :) .

Alien Assault Traders is an online browser-based space strategy trading game written in PHP. It’s a fork of Blacknova Traders. If you’re looking for a free open source web game then here’s one to take a peek at. PJ is well known for focusing more than the usual effort on optimisation (he wrote the ADOdb Lite and Template Lite libraries) so it’s a bit easier on your hardware than many alternatives.

I haven’t been tracking development as much as I used to (busy with Astrum Futura, QGL and my Zend Framework proposals) but the new version has a significant overhaul of the previous 0.2x code. Have fun! ;)