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new site and forums

Monday, October 26th, 2009

There has been some big changes this week as I have migrated the site from sourceforge on to opengameart.org .

Since the server crash on forum.freegamedev.net it seems that unfortunately we have lost all our data. Our new forums will now be located at forum.hardwar.org . I’m hoping that you will all sign up and offer your support and help. Even if you don’t want to help contribute it would be great to populate the forums with some noise.

Code wise this week I have been reworking all the messaging code between the client and server. There are still issues with it so I have not pushed it up to launchpad yet.

If you’re wondering why exactly my policy on pushing code changes is that it should leave the game in a runnable state so that if someone downloads and compiles the code they can run it rather then having to play “guess the working revision”.

Forum is down

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

So unfortunately the FreeGamer forum where we communicate through has crashed. I’m currently looking for a better long term solution and will try to keep everyone updated.

Building Placement is working

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

I’ve finally worked out most of the problems with the dragging and dropping of buildings in the editor and it now works! Not only that but the buildings are added to everyone who is in the game. Very exciting to see after all this effort.

I even made a video of two clients being connected to one server to show this off.

Loading screen redux

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Only one day after posting my poorly done concept artwork for the loading screen and I received an amazing response back from the community.

Below I have posted my original drawing (left) and next to it is Tranberry’s effort (right).

As you can see it is really looking good and I am currently making an effort to get it into the game.

This however is taking time because I have removed CEGUI in favour of MyGUI, a different GUI library. I am also in the middle of finishing my university course so there won’t be many code updates until next month after my final year project deadline. I will be active in the forums though so please come and join in the fun.

Forum

Monday, September 29th, 2008

I’ve been working on hardwar but rarely update this blog.

Instead please go to the free gamer forums to stay updated.