WorldForge

I’ve added Worldforge to the Ohloh code metric system. The entry can be found here. According to them, Worldforge would cost ~12 million USD to produce from scratch. Yeah…

Kai finally got around to place jayr’s fantastic castle on the mason map. Now people can start exploring the castle, and we can get started adding some gameplay. Castle defence anyone? Further screenshots of the castle, which should be included in ... [More] the next cyphesis release, can be found at: Approaching Castlegard Closer look at Castlegard’s entrace Bird’s eye Bird’s eye 2 Morning bird’s [...] [Less]

Something that Ember’s been missing for a long time now is a dynamic sky. Instead it has had a static sky, with a static sun, always shown as middle of the day. However, through the addition of the Caelum project from the Ogre community Ember now finally has a dynamic sky. Some screenshots for your viewing [...]

We had a meeting again this Saturday, doing a status check and looking at the next steps to take. The agenda and summary are available on the wiki. The next meeting is scheduled for 2006-11-18 19.00 GMT, in #forge on irc.worldforge.org. The agenda for that meeting is available on the wiki.

Skstream version 0.3.6 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Skstream is an iostream based C socket library. It is ideally suited for use as the underlying transport for Atlas-C , and has been well tested and debugged. It was first discovered for WorldForge when it was used in UClient and has [...]

We had a meeting again this Saturday, doing a status check and looking at the next steps to take. The agenda and summary are available on the wiki. The next meeting is scheduled for 2006-10-28, in #forge on irc.worldforge.org.  The agenda for that meeting is available on the wiki.

Cyphesis version 0.5.10 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Cyphesis is a small to medium scale server for WorldForge games, with builtin AI. This version includes the demo game Mason which is currently in ... [More] development. This release is intended for server administrators wishing to run a Mason server and World [...] [Less]

In an effort to keep tri-weekly meetings a meeting was held (on IRC) saturday 2006-09-23, the meeting summary can be found below. The main point on the agenda was how easy it is for newcomers to join. Website, editing/content toolchain and ... [More] coordination was discussed. The next meeting is scheduled for 2006-10-07, 1900 GMT, in the #forge channel [...] [Less]

After finally releasing Ember 0.4.1 I’ve been able to focus on adding some new features. The most sought after was at last adding the ability to move things in the world. This would seem like a basic feature that would have been present years ago, but for some reason it never made it into the [...]

It’s been quite a fight, but now they’re done. You can find the SuSE cyphesis packages at the WorldForge SuSE repository, along with all the other needed packages.