WorldForge

Below is a short video showing how easy it is to alter the Ember models on the fly, to better fit with the data sent from the server. Since Worldforge is built around the server and client agnostic Atlas protocol, … Continue reading →

Tomorrow is the official start of coding for Google Summer of Code 2011. Like last year Worldforge teamed up with the Ryzom project to help them with mentoring. Together we were allocated eight slots, evenly split. The Worldforge projects are: … Continue reading →

Terraria has just been released this week, and is a 2D game with a lot of similar elements to Minecraft. Check out the video below for some of the amazing things their world simulation can do, including blasting out the … Continue reading →

Ember version 0.6.1 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Ember is a 3d client for the WorldForge project. It uses the Ogre 3d graphics library for presentation and CEGUI for its GUI system. This … Continue reading →

Eris version 1.3.18 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Eris is the WorldForge client-side session layer, used by many existing clients. This is a development release, as the API may change prior to the … Continue reading →

Google have announced that student applications are now open for their Summer of Code program until next Friday April 8th. WorldForge has been accepted once again, so we are hoping to take on a number of students. If you are … Continue reading →

WorldForge is again participating in the Google Summer of Code.  If you’re a student interested in contributing to WorldForge this summer, Google now helps you flipping code, not burgers.  The application period starts on March 28th, so now is a … Continue reading →

Cyphesis version 0.5.26 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 … Continue reading →

I built this all by myself, with only a little teeny bit of resorting to admin access! With the recent addition of a new task type to Mason, it is now possible to use a shovel tool to raise a … Continue reading →

An old article on WorldForge from 2001 has recently been republished here and is well worth a read. It gives interesting insights into the ambitious goals we have had since the beginning nearly 13 years ago, and how many of our ideas which seemed so ambitious in the past have been implemented by commercial games [...]