March 24, 2008
This website has been completely redesigned today. In fact the difference is not
visible at first look, because it is more a content re-organization than a
visual change. The HTML code is now W3C compliant, the URL and pages titles are
more pertinent. A big effort has been made for facilitating the job of Mr Google
and other search engines
.
I have also added two new pages that will count a lot for me in the future:
- The Coop or die 2 page is currently the
main place for information about my new project. Working on a new project
entirely dedicated to co-operative play with my WorldServer technology is
not new. My goal was already the same in 2002 with the
"War against the cyborg"
project, powered by the Quake2 GPL engine and Steve Yeager's AceBot. In 2005
I have also attempted to concretise it with a
tank game
using the
Max Shelekov's models
and the GarageGames's Torque Engine. These two projects were canceled
by the amount of work needed and the lack of progress.
But the big moves in the free game scene during the last years has made my
project a lot more viable. Initially I have considered to relaunch the
"War against the cyborg" concept as an
OpenArena
modification. Finally the
Tremulous
game as more seduced me.
The quality of the media (models/textures/maps/sounds) and the "humans vs aliens"
theme has really pleased me, even if the initial lack of bots was a
problem. But due to the Open Source nature of the Tremulous project, third
party developers have already started to release some promising bots, and I'm sure
the better is to come.
-
The Tremulous Bots Index is a sort of reminder
about everything related to the development of computer bots for the Tremulous game.
I will maintain this page up to date as far as I can.
February 9, 2008
If you read this, it works ;)
This website is now sharing the host of coopordie.com. I will be able to
integrate a news and comment system merged with the coopordie phpBB3 forum.
January 31, 2008
What ? I'm late ? Nooo, we are always in January, so it's the last day to wish
you a happy new year 2008. I particularly wish you a lot of fun playing
cooperative computer games with your friends, your neighbors, your family and
every cool people you could find over the Internet. Have fun fragging side by side
and get the satisfaction to accomplish common goals in team.
CU, Pat
January 30, 2008
The end of year 2007 was a little disappointing for the GPL Quake development
community. Quakesrc dot org, our central forum was instable during one month,
and finally down since the start of 2008.
Ender, the admin, has given no sight since the end of November. He has never
sent me the database export of the old COOP or DIE forum. Fortunately, between
Christmas and the end of the year, I have grabbed the entire COOP or DIE
sub-forum HTML pages.
After near 10 hours of hard work, a huge use of regular expressions and text processing,
I have re-imported the complete forum content. Of course with a correct database
export it could has taken 30 minutes, but I have learned a lot about the
preg_match function and text manipulations under PHP. For testing if
messages were correctly imported, I have re-read a lot of old thread, it's
always fun and surprising to dig in the past.
Finally, I'm now porting the entire COOP or DIE website and the WorldServer
to PHP 5, and I will be able to release it very soon.
The end of year 2007 was a little disappointing for the GPL Quake development
community. Quakesrc dot org, our central forum was instable during one month,
and finally down since the start of 2008.