I haven’t posted anything about development or progress in a while. It seems when I go in one direction there is always something to pull me in another one. 
So, what has been happening? We are presently exploring an iPhone game which would be a subset of Arrival, it could even be considered a prequal though the story for the first prequal may not be connected to the main Arrival game. If things go well there is a chance we will do a series of iPhone games. This could help us in many ways including practicing on a much smaller scale, earning funds to pay for bigger game development costs and building a reputation which could help us receive funding from a publisher. At the moment I am in negotiations with a publisher to get funding for our first iPhone game. It’s a long process but assuming everything goes well we should begin full development by July (sooner I hope!).
So building an iPhone team, reviewing and commenting on docs, starting a real company, negotiating the contract, etc etc has kept me away from programming and experimenting. I hope to get back to that soon but with all my project manager tasks I may not get to do any programming on this iPhone game. Ah well, the joy of being the team lead.
I hope to be posting another blog soon with good news on funding. Until then wish me luck!
–Josh