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 functionality.
This release primarily fixes compilation problems on recent compilers.
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 this release is a completely new multithreading framework, an entity type manager, improvements to the shaders and lots of new media.
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 clients; testing is recommended and appreciated.
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 projects are:
Dzimitry will actually be contributing to the NeL project, as we’ve this year agreed to mentor them on mentoring.
More information can be found at the GSoC site.
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 servers to resolve worldforge.org addresses.
While the worldforge.org domain is down, I’ve moved the wiki to http://wiki.worldforge.de and the git server to git.worldforge.de.
We’re working on sorting this out, sorry for the inconvenience.
Kai
Google has just opened applications for students who want to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2010. If you want to help building tools for great MMOGs, you should have a look at our ideas page.
In order to help you figure out if you have the skills needed to work on Ember, and in order to help us to filter out non-serious applications, we ask students who are applying for ember to find and fix two errors in this special code drop. Also see the Ember prerequisites on this.
A similar coding challenge exists for Wombat, where applicants can have a go at implementing a recent feature request. See the wombat prerequisite for details on that.
We’re looking forward to your applications, and happy hacking!
Just like in the previous two years, Google has decided to accept WorldForge into the Google Summer of Code. Interested students can spend their summer break flipping code not burgers at WorldForge. See our project proposals page for some ideas of what you could work on. If you have your own idea, don’t hesitate to come to the WorldForge general mailinglist to discuss your idea.
While student applications won’t open until March 29th (see the GSoC timeline), the sooner you contact us, the better.
We’re looking forward to your project proposals.
The Wombat team is happy to release Wombat 0.5.0
Compared to the 0.4.0 release, Wombat 0.5.0 sports a lot of new features.
Notable differences are:
Read the full announcement for the list of changes since the last development snapshot.
As always, the current release can be tested on the Wombat demo site. As a new service, current progress can be seen on the Wombat development site, which shows the state of Wombat at the tip of the development. While the demo site shows the WorldForge media repository, the development site uses a scaled down repository to allow for faster database rebuilds in case something goes wrong.
Cyphesis version 0.5.22 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 development. This release is intended for server administrators wishing to run a Mason server and World developers developing new worlds or game systems. Read the rest of this entry »
Ember version 0.5.7 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 release contains a new entity movement functionality, with snap-to behavior. Many issues specific to ATI cards have been resolved. Various optimizations in terrain handling have been added.