Category Archives: Software

Your own desert island

Posted on Friday 7th of January, 2011 by alriddoch

Here is a video of me creating a small island from scratch in four minutes. It shows how to select the Terrain Editor from the admin menu, and then how to drag and adjust the control points to get the … Continue reading →

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Ember 0.6.0 released

Posted on Friday 19th of November, 2010 by erik

Ember version 0.6.0 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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Cyphesis 0.5.25 Release

Posted on Wednesday 17th of November, 2010 by alriddoch

Cyphesis version 0.5.25 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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Mercator 0.2.9 Release

Posted on Sunday 14th of November, 2010 by alriddoch

Mercator 0.2.9 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 changes … Continue reading →

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Test driven development

Posted on Thursday 7th of October, 2010 by alriddoch

Recently I was working on a problem when I hit upon a situation which I thought was an excellent example of applying test driven development in a less than ideal situation, so I thought I’d write about it here to … Continue reading →

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Google Summer of Code report: Tiberiu Paunescu

Posted on Saturday 11th of September, 2010 by erik

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 … Continue reading →

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Eris 1.3.16 Released

Posted on Thursday 9th of September, 2010 by alriddoch

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 … Continue reading →

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Cyphesis 0.5.24

Posted on Sunday 29th of August, 2010 by alriddoch

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 … Continue reading →

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Mercator 0.2.8 Release

Posted on Thursday 19th of August, 2010 by alriddoch

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 changes … Continue reading →

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libwfut 0.2.2 Released

Posted on Thursday 3rd of June, 2010 by Simon

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 … Continue reading →

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