Time Line

This is a time line of the history of Piga Software. All of these dates are in the Common Era (CE).

August 12: Piga Software is founded by Hamish and Graham Wilson as "Piga Entertainment".
The first version of the Piga Software website is created by Graham and hosted by Fateback.
"Piga Entertainment" becomes Piga Software, reflecting the larger product range Piga is after.
Malcolm Wilson Multimedia creates the "Piga Software Theme".
Work is done on several adventure and similar type games, some written in Visual Basic and others written in HTML.
The first intended Piga Software program, a text editor, is finished but is not able to be uploaded. This is the beginning of a long standing problem of finding a file host.

May: Graham first uses the shareware version of Game Maker 6.1.
June: Graham and Malcolm Wilson Multimedia complete Billy Bear, the first game of the Piga Windows Entertainment Pack.
Most of the games of the Piga Windows Entertainment Pack are first created (more in 2006).
Some 2.5D first person shooter games are made in Game Maker but are never released (more in 2006).
September: the Piga Software developers first play Age of Empires II: Gold Edition.

January 1: Fedora Core 4 is first installed on Hamish's "Griffindor" computer.
Summer: Piga Software, Malcolm Wilson Multimedia, and the Brogo web comic begin working on a game together.
The original Free Empires project in Game Maker 6.1 for Microsoft Windows is begun.
October 30: Piga Software releases Donut Quest for Microsoft Windows, it was made in Game Maker 5.1.
Alongside the Microsoft Windows Free Empires project, many other prototype and design ideas for real time strategy games are created.
Work on an attempted early version of Windys is attempted in Game Maker, the project is eventually abandoned.

March-April: Harry Rabbit's Easter Egg Hunt, the last game of the Piga Windows Entertainment Pack is created by Graham Wilson.
April: work on Free Empires is started for GNU/Linux, being made in GAMBAS.
May: the modern Piga Software Forum is created by Hamish, hosted by Forumer.
June 15: the first source release of Free Empires is released for GNU/Linux.
August 17: the Piga Software Wiki is created by Hamish and Graham, hosted by Wiki-Site.
October: Graham starts working on Piga Nation
October 25: Open Empires a third-party project inspired by, but with different goals from Free Empires is announced on the Piga Software Forum.
October 26: the original intended release date for the second Free Empires source release, the tenth anniversary of Age of Empires.
November 9: the second source release of Free Empires is released, it was delayed by upload problems.

Piga Software begins to host information on its wiki to help other free software projects.
March: development on Windys begins for GNU/Linux in Gambas.
March 24: Extreme Tux Racer and Free Empires become partner projects.
July 15: a mouse movement tech demo for Gambas Genie (Free Empires engine) is released.
September 6: Hamish releases several GAMBAS example programs.
October 9: development begins on PigaVision under the name "XRandR-GTK".
October 27: development begins on Piga's Pumpkin Carving.
October 31: PigaVision and Piga's Pumpkin Carving are released.

January 27: version of 1.2.0 of PigaVision is released.
April 18: development begins on Alexei: Part IX.
May: development begins on Lamp Refugee.
May 19: Alexei: Part IX is released after a month of development.
May 31: version 1.2.0 of Alexei: Part IX is released.
July 31: version 1.2.5 of Alexei: Part IX is released.
August 12: Windys is released in part to commemorate Piga Software's sixth anniversary.
September 1: version 1.2.0 of Windys is released.
October 26: the first Source Release of Lamp Refugee is completed.
October 27: work on version 1.5 of Piga's Pumpkin Carving begins.
October 31: version 1.5 of Piga's Pumpkin Carving is released.

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