plumo Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 0 A.D. Weekly Report #4 (Week 33)Wildfire Games, the international group of volunteers developing 0 A.D., are happy to present this week's 0 A.D. development report.If you want to find out more about the development of this open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy game or if you are interested in game development in general, it might be an interesting read. If you want to be part of this project, we urge you to post your application in our forums. We are currently looking for Gameplay, AI, Sound and Graphics Programmers along with Animators and 3D & texture artists. You prefer to do something else than programming or drawing? Luckily for your portfolio we are also looking for a Sound Lead, Video Editors, a Documentation Manager and Scenario Designers. Still no luck? Head to our forums and join our active community!Art & Programming & SoundNote:This week's report will be a bit shorter than the previous reports. Alpha XI is very close to being released (late August - early September). Not many new features have been added this week as we are approaching the 'feature freeze'-phase. It gives us some time to test the game and remove as many bugs as we can find.Myconid's post-processing effects made it into the game! The new features have been tested throughout the week and many bugs have been fixed. It will take some time before the artists let their models take full advantage of all the new possibilities (see previous weekly reports), but the results will be spectacular! Luckily, some effects don't require additional work. So enjoy a breeze through the trees and the smooth LOS (line of sight)!Omri Lahav never stops remastering existing tracks and recording new ones. Lately he has been experimenting with taiko drums and percussion, to create the most exhilarating battle music. In short: expect a lot of new music in Alpha XI !Deiz added a 'Stop' button to the GUI for immediately halting units, improved gate closing behaviour when locked or when no enemies nearby and continued quantumstate's work on team/private chat for multiplayer games.General Kenobi has been updating his Scandinavian rock formations.Pureon has recently finished his amazing Brythonic Broch model, the new fortress for the Britons. I have very strong evidence (a personal message in fact) that this is not the last new building model for the Britons!Quantumstate added support for multiplayer chat, which Deiz continued, and support for cropped images in the GUI game setup (so playing in different resolutions won't affect map preview sizes).stwf kept working on the new Sound Manager, which we really want to include in the next alpha release!Wraitii kept working on Qbot XP - a new bot that will provide a greater challenge than its predecessor. How do we know for sure it is a greater challenge? Easy: Put Qbot and Qbot XP in a 1vs1 battle a couple of times and compare the results. Let's say Qbot XP came, saw and conquered.Zaggy1024 has been updating Roman buildings with Myconid's post-processing effects (specular maps, normal maps).Check back next Monday for more development news! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrynnOfCastlegate Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 This sounds great! I love graphical improvements and new music!--Brynn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphzaph Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 Very good ! the project continue very well !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac892006 Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 Keep up the good work . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjs23 Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 Wraitii kept working on Qbot XP - a new bot that will provide a greater challenge than its predecessor. How do we know for sure it is a greater challenge? Easy: Put Qbot and Qbot XP in a 1vs1 battle a couple of times and compare the results. Let's say Qbot XP came, saw and conquered.go qBot XP! Awesome to hear it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 The german version:http://www.0ad-portal.de/news.php?extend.4Looking forward to alpha 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MishFTW Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Bastijn, you forgot to publish this to the website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumo Posted August 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Will do now. sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azayrahmad Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Celtic were not particularly my civ of preference, but 'Celtic Pride' piece was really beautiful piece. Whoever plays the flute will receive internet hugs from me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sighvatr Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Who doesn't like change? Its going to be great when we get a multiplayer server list for this game. Makes playing this game with people easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk12 Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 This still isn't on the website... I just found this now—this whole week I had thought that you weren't keeping it up anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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