Archive for November, 2005

WorldForge Celebrates its 7th Anniversary

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

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 as Free Software, the WorldForge project became more recognisable as it is today.
Seven years down [...]

Mason 0.3 Release

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Mason 0.3 has now been released

Sear 0.6.0 Release

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

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.

Cyphesis 0.5.4 Release

Monday, November 28th, 2005

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 development. This release is intended for server administrators wishing to run a Mason server and World [...]

WFUT goes international

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

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.

Overheard today in Moraf . . .

Friday, November 25th, 2005

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 help out.
Gorun Iksa: If you have decide you would like to settle here I can assign you [...]

Cyphesis 0.5.3 Release

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

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 development. This release is intended for server administrators wishing to run a Mason server and World [...]

Dealing with disaster

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

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 of this is that along with hundreds of my collegues I am currently not able to [...]


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