Monthly Archives: November 2005

WorldForge Celebrates its 7th Anniversary

Posted on Wednesday 30th of November, 2005 by alriddoch

In November 1998, the Altima project was announced on slashdot with the intention of being the GPL equivalent of Ultima Online. About a year later under a new name and with the new goal of creating the first MMORPG engine … Continue reading →

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Mason 0.3 Release

Posted on Tuesday 29th of November, 2005 by alriddoch

Mason 0.3 has now been released Continue reading →

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Sear 0.6.0 Release

Posted on Tuesday 29th of November, 2005 by Simon

After nearly 18 months, Sear 0.6.0 is released. As can be expected from
such a long development time, there have been many changes. Perhaps the
most important (and the most asked for) being the addition of a GUI
system for Sear covering the tasks of logging in to a server, creating
and account and a character as well as some in game functionality too. Continue reading →

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Cyphesis 0.5.4 Release

Posted on Monday 28th of November, 2005 by alriddoch

Cyphesis version 0.5.4 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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WFUT goes international

Posted on Sunday 27th of November, 2005 by Simon

The latest WFUT (WorldForge Update Tool) now supports internationalisation for the GUI components. WFUT is a small Java application that downloads updated files from a normal webserver. It is currently used by Sear to keep its media up to date, and hosts the nightly CVS builds of Sear for Linux and Windows platforms. Continue reading →

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Overheard today in Moraf . . .

Posted on Friday 25th of November, 2005 by alriddoch

Gorun Iksa: On behalf of the Duke I would like to welcome you to moraf. Gorun Iksa: If you are new here I suggest talking to the pig seller. Gorun Iksa: He will tell you what you can do to … Continue reading →

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Cyphesis 0.5.3 Release

Posted on Sunday 20th of November, 2005 by alriddoch

Cyphesis version 0.5.3 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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Dealing with disaster

Posted on Tuesday 8th of November, 2005 by alriddoch

Many of you have probably heard by now that my employer, the University of Southampton was recently the victim of a serious fire, the largest in Hampshire for two years. Details including photos can be found here. The immediate effect … Continue reading →

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