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This summer, for the third time in a row, Worldforge participated in Google Summer of Code. This post will showcase some of the work done by one of the students, Tiberiu Paunescu. Tiberius task was to implement a series of improvements to the Ember UI. These improvements were all end user focused and meant to [...]

Eris version 1.3.16 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 final release of Eris 1.4.0. However, any changes should be minor and easy to incorporate [...]

Cyphesis version 0.5.24 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]

Here is a short video demonstrating basic construction gameplay from Mason. Cutting down trees and building them into a stockade is old news, but this video really shows off how much easier it is with the Ember improvements made during this years Google Summer of Code by Tiberiu. The video was captured using glc and the [...]

Mercator 0.2.8 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Mercator is a library for handling procedural world data, especially terrain. It is used by all WorldForge components. This API is still in development, and ... [More] changes with each version. Changes in this version: The API has been improved a little. Source code and Linux binary [...] [Less]

libwfut 0.2.2 has been released and is available from the WorldForge download site. WFUT is a content distribution system initially intended to provide media updates for WorldForge clients. libwfut is a C++ implementation of the client side ... [More] functionality. This release primarily fixes compilation problems on recent compilers. Source: libwfut-0.2.2.tar.gz [Less]

Ember version 0.5.8 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. The main feature of ... [More] this release is a completely new multithreading framework, an entity type manager, improvements to [...] [Less]

Eris version 1.3.15 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 final release of Eris 1.4.0. However, any changes should be minor and easy to incorporate into [...]

The selection period for the Google Summer of Code is now complete and we’re happy to announce the four students who will be working on Worldforge during the summer. Just like the last two years we had a good collection of really excellent applications and we want to thank all students who applied. The four student [...]

Hi folks, it seems like we have sort of a brown-out for worldforge.org dns lookups. Our name servers are still giving out the correct IP addresses, but for some reason many providers’ DNS servers seem to have forgotten they need to contact our DNS ... [More] servers to resolve worldforge.org addresses. While the worldforge.org domain is down, I’ve moved [...] [Less]