We thank all of you that have bought something in the most recent sale as that confirms the direction we are heading in the new year. We appreciate all of you who have bought John’s games in the past and have supported us since the launch of WDS on November 19 th, 2021. The overall reception since the WDS announcement has been extraordinarily positive. To say the two intervening months from deal signing to launch was hectic is an understatement, our apologies for any oversights in that period, but we were verging on project management hell! The revisions to products, update of information and infrastructure changes are a credit to all that contribute to WDS, the programmers, artists, series owners, developers and customer facing team, the launch could not have happened without you. Ideally, any enhancements that were planned would be included with these new ‘4.0’ WDS builds. At a minimum a new WDS website, builds and updates were needed. With the asset purchase concluded in early September, a target announcement date of pre-thanksgiving (November 25 th) was set. I would again like to thank the Tiller family publicly for the trust they have placed in the WDS team. However, the JTS team rallied, new hands joined the team and all joined forces with the existing WDS core to form a new company. With much of the programming in John’s hands there was a real possibility that many of the games John published were at the end of their life and many of the planned projects would be still born. John’s passing left many of the team and projects in limbo. John more importantly was a family man, and our best wishes and thoughts are extended to Pat, John’s wife and daughters, Julia and Kathleen. Bridging game scales of tactical, operational to strategic again underlines the basic utility John built into his gaming systems. The flexibility of the code John wrote has allowed it to represent conflicts from the year 1500 to today. The Panzer Campaigns series was only ever expected to be a few games, but twenty-six titles later it has become one eponymous with the JTS brand. His first self-published game, distributed through HPS was Panzer Campaigns Smolensk ’41. John, as a self-taught programmer used his PhD in Mathematics to great effect after joining Talonsoft back in the 1990’s and subsequently forming John Tiller Software (JTS) in 1996.

Mercifully, his fight with the deadly disease was short and we lost him on April 26 th, 2021 - eight short months ago. Vale John Tiller – It was only in January 2021, that we became aware that John was seriously ill with brain cancer. When I wrote the equivalent article, twelve months ago link to article I never expected the changes that would confront us.

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