Status Update + Job Announcements

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The OpenAnno project aims at creating an open source (code licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 and the graphics as CC-BY-SA 3.0) realtime economy simulation game with strategy elements in an isometric 2D engine loosely oriented towards Sunflower's Anno series. It is currently in the early development phase, so any help is more than appreciated. If you want to contribute, please read the "Getting started" article in our wiki. You can also find further information about the project and the people behind it in there. If you intend to to test the current in-development version of OpenAnno, you can download the SVN version (see SVN for details). It would be a great help if you filed bug reports at our public bug tracker and release planning tool Trac.

Thursday, May 22. 2008

Posted by Thomas Kinnen

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Hello everyone,

it's time for a new status report on the OpenAnno development.

Today OpenAnno has been made compatible with the upcoming FIFE datasets branch. We were well prepared and didn't have to make many changes. Please note that OpenAnno will not run with the current FIFE trunk. If you wish to run OpenAnno you will have to checkout the fife datasets branch (/branches/active/datasets). We will post an update as soon as the datasets branch is moved to trunk.

Read on for the all the other changes and the job announcements...

Game changes

In the last few weeks we have made some very big changes to the game
structure, resulting in a more modular code and code, that should be
network compatible. Some of the new changes:

A tick-based scheduler for timed actions
Game commands are being passed arround as command classes which are handled by a manager (needed for network compatibility)
A building tool
Moved all key- and mouse-listeners into seperate classes
Lots of code cleanup

Some of the more visible changes:

Background music
The Buildingtool class shows you if a house is buildable or not (yellow ok, red not ok)
Settings can be changed in the options menu
New menu background
Ingame GUI now has some basic functions as rotating the map, zooming, etc.
Ships GUI menu allows you to build a new house

Job announcement:

We are looking for a skilled graphics artist who could help us with the creation of ground tiles, buildings, menus, etc. Please note: You must use OpenSource Software (e.g. Blender) or legally licensed software!
We are also always looking for programmers (OpenAnno is written mainly in python, FIFE in C++).

If you are interested in helping out, please join us on IRC #openanno @ freenode.net

That's it for today's update,

so long Thomas

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