Category Archives: Software

Browser plugin, Windows and OSX builds of Ember

Posted on Friday 6th of January, 2012 by erik

Thanks to the hard work of Péter Szücs during the Google Summer of Code 2011 we can now proudly introduce WebEmber, a browser plugin which allows you to embed Ember in a web page. We support all major browsers on … Continue reading →

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Last chance to submit talks for FOSDEM Open Source Games Room

Posted on Friday 23rd of December, 2011 by alriddoch

Nils Kneuper has posted a reminder that the deadline for talk proposals for the Open Source Games Room at FOSDEM next year is less than 24 hours away. View the original proposal here. The idea for this room was born … Continue reading →

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Ember 0.6.2 released

Posted on Wednesday 16th of November, 2011 by erik

Ember version 0.6.2 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 →

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GSoC report 2011: Martin Preisler

Posted on Thursday 15th of September, 2011 by erik

Hi, I am Martin Preisler (“Kulik” on various IRC networks and forums) from Czech Republic. This year I got accepted into Google Summer of Code and had the pleasure to work for Worldforge. Introduction I was working on Ember’s GUI … Continue reading →

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Code moved to GitHub.

Posted on Saturday 13th of August, 2011 by erik

The Worldforge project has previously hosted most of our actively developed applications and libraries on our own Git server. Since a couple of months we have however migrated to using GitHub instead. This isn’t really such a big change as … Continue reading →

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How to edit models in Ember on the fly

Posted on Tuesday 24th of May, 2011 by erik

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 →

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An inspirational video from Terraria

Posted on Thursday 19th of May, 2011 by alriddoch

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 →

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Ember 0.6.1 released

Posted on Wednesday 18th of May, 2011 by erik

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 →

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Eris 1.3.18 Release

Posted on Wednesday 13th of April, 2011 by Administrator

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 →

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Cyphesis 0.5.26 Release

Posted on Wednesday 2nd of March, 2011 by alriddoch

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 →

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