WorldForge has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008.
If you are a student interested in participating, see our project ideas list, visit us in the #lounge channel on irc.worldforge.org or say hello on the general mailing list. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
We would like to thank [...]
I have just upgraded the wiki to mediawiki 1.11.0.
My tests are looking good, but if you find anything broken, just send me an email.
During the last couple of weeks we’ve been using the Launchpad service for development.
The Launchpad is a rich bug and feature tracker developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. It also providers other features useful for developers, such as translations and general answers to common questions about the application. Personally I think one of its [...]
This weekend I will upgrade the wiki to mediawki 1.10.0. This wil probably happen on Saturday. I’m not going to estimate the downtime, just expect there’s going to be downtime this weekend.
As many of you will notice, I have spent some time recently tweaking the website to try and improve its usefulness, while others work on long term solutions. The main changes people will have noticed are updated CSS styling, and reworking the links in the navbar.
Most of the work I have done has been based [...]
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 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 [...]
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.
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.
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 coordination was discussed.
The next meeting is scheduled for 2006-10-07, 1900 GMT, in the #forge channel [...]