OpenAnno development blog

Release 2008.1 is here!

Hello everyone,

We finally made it and the first release is here! Alot of hard work has gone into the game so far, and we hope to get a lot of feedback on what has to be improved.

Do however note that this is a development release solely to show off what we have done so far. It is intended to be viewed as a technical demo and to get people interested in the project. You can do some basic playing, but nothing great yet.

Read how to get the demo and instructions here.

We hope you don't experience any problems with the demo, if you do, make sure to contact us on irc: #openanno @ irc.freenode.net or on our forums. If you are interested in working on OpenAnno make sure to contact us, we always have jobs open for everyone .

Download OpenAnno or watch our demo video at YouTube or in high quality (MKV/H.264 720x576/Vorbis):

So long,

Nihathrael

Announcement: First release scheduled!

Hello everyone,

The first OpenAnno release has been scheduled to the 1. October 2008. We are looking forward to releasing the 2008.1 Milestone as a playable demo.

What can you expect from the demo?

Working ships.
First little economy (food and textile production chains).
Pioneer level citizens that consume your resources and pay taxes.
Saving and Loading of game states.
2 test maps.
Nice graphics for most of the buildings.
Streets can be built and pathfinding for units.

A little preview (Thanks to Nightr4ven for putting this together!):

Job Posting and Status Update

Hello everyone,

It's been some time since our last posting, so it's time for a status update. We have quite some news for you. Also we have some open jobs (as usual) that we hope to fill.

Read on for the status update and the job postings...

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2nd place at Dusmania 10

Hello everyone,

sorry for beeing a little late with the Dusmania report, so here it comes:

We were voted second best project!

Thank you to everyone who voted for us ! First place went to Iris 2, great job guys, you definitely had a really cool and by far the furthest project, congratulations from our side!

We also saw a lot of nice projects from the overnight contest, awesome job everyone.

Read on for a team picture and the latest OpenAnno status update...

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1000 commits, Dusmania and more!

Hey everyone,

We recently completed our 1000th commit!! Yeah OpenAnno has come a really long way and things are looking great!

Another reminder on Dusmania: It will be held on 19th and 20th July 2008 and a few of our OA team will be present there and we will also be doing a demo there too. So if you find the time to join the dusmania, we would be happy to meet you there. For more information visit: www.dusmania.de

Read on for a status update ...

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Milestone 2008.0 completed and a warm welcome!

Hello everybody,

it's time for an OpenAnno status-update once again, a lot has happened since the last post.

We would like to welcome totycro and egore to the team. They have both done great work on OpenAnno already, as you might know if you followed the svn log. egore is a graphics artist and will be creating buildings for OpenAnno, totycro is a programmer who has made some great additions to OpenAnno, which I will present later on. Welcome to the team! We are pleased to have you aboard!

We have also completed the 2008.0 milestone and are making big steps in the direction of the 2008.1 milestone. There will not be an official release, milestone 2008.0 is just an internal goal, we set our self to be finished for the Dusmania.

Read on for the status update...

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500 svn commits later

Hello everybody,

today the 500th commit made it into our svn repository. I'll take that as an opportunity to make another short news announcement.

1. The date for the dusmania is now fixed. It has been scheduled to the 19./20. July 2008. We will be attending the Dusmania with a few people, so if you find the time to join the dusmania, we would be happy to meet you there. For more information visit: www.dusmania.de

2. I'd like to thank the guys from Wingware for allowing us (as OpenSource developers) to use the professional version of WingIDE for our work on OpenAnno. If you are into python development, you should take a look at their website and try WingIDE.

Read on for the OpenAnno status update...

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Status Update + Job Announcements

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...

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Hi, my Name is ....

Hi, my name is Thomas!

I am 20 years old and live in Xanten/Germany. On IRC you will usually find me under the name Nihathrael. I use ArchLinux as my main OS, I recommend you try it, if you like tooling arround and aren't afraid of the command line.

My main job at OpenAnno is core programming, so this is what I do most of the time. I usually code in python, but I also know Java und some C++/php/web-standard-stuff.

Now to a OpenAnno status update:

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Toilsomely the squirrel lives on the crops of the field.

Maybe it is a bad idea to translate word-by-word german sayings for entry titles. Anyway!

First of all we want to welcome our new team member Nihathrael who will fill the position of python coder we have been desperatly looking for so long. Ok, to tell the truth he is already around for several weeks doing great work on the project, but we led our devblog slide a bit too much. Now to make it official welcome buddy we are all pretty happy to have you here. He is maybe the real reason why there is some content to fill this entry.

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Are you ready to shoot?

Well, we ain't... Yet. But as phiker mentioned in the post below the code monkeys are partially back in action and we can note down some progress. Wohoo... Good job, buddies.

Another step forward are some great improvements and optimizations the FIFE team made for their game engine. Their first release 2008 will hopefully be the milestone in FIFE development I expect it to be.

Although I personally still got the time to get more familiar with Blender and to create simple gfx samples I am pretty busy with hauling bullshit from A to B, from B back to A and then over to C... My boss currently drives me crazy with his epic plans to rearrange his business premises. I would really appreciate to have some time left to hang out with my digital bitch to create some more stuff without all this pain in every fucking limb...

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Continuing the development

Yonibear, lars and I had a short real-life meeting from 30th December 2007 to 1st January 2008 at LinuxDonald's place in Berlin. We didn't have too much time to talk or do something useful because we were still exhausted after attending the 24C3, but at least we managed to start coding again. Now we have a new, structured codebase with some basic boilerplate classes we can base our efforts on. Unfortunately, yonibear is still very busy with his job, but I think that we can reach the goal we set: Presenting a very basic release of OpenAnno at the Dusmania.
Now that the base classes exist, we can move on and expand them to actually do something useful, but before that we will have to think of a solid MVC structure. I'll update my proposal after I have discussed the most important points with yoni.

Something to look at...

Some sample graphics featuring the storage and the residental tent with the four directions each. Thanks to Lamoot from the FIFE dev team for providing me a blender scene with a functional light setup. Without it would not look as half as cool as it does.

Merry Christmas

The Open Anno team wishes you Merry Christmas

Hi, my Name is ....

Hello, my name is Dominik. I am 32 years old and married.

We have four children and live in Marburg/Germany. Our home network is based on open source software including Linux.

We have decided to use Ubuntu. Our oldest son is always on search for games and came over www.holarse.de to OpenAnno. He wanted to to play and asked me if I could help him with installing the game. Unfortunatly there is currently still no working version available, what I first read on the boards and was later told when consulting the project's IRC channel.
In the channel I was asked if I am interested in helping out the team with writing the design document for OpenAnno which I willingly accepted.
I hope for the best cooperation and contemporarily look forward to a very good open source project.

Greetings
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