Spring Projects 2011

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Waiting for the domain transfer over to the new host so I can start rebuilding my website there. It shouldn't be too much longer.

Been putting in about 14 hours a day working on Tarl's World, Mage Gate, the upcoming Realm Crafter Standard Community Edition, and my online store assets.

Got some hax in place for RCS (realm Crafter Standard), I managed to create a work around for RCS's lack of alternate font support. That will be going in to the community edition as well as Mage Gate. I'll post a WIP shot showing the new font from Mage Gate above... (it doesn't want to go here without a fight).

What you are looking at here is a test zone with a stock RCS character and moon. As you can see from the text bubble, I managed to get a slightly modified Gemelii font working. it replaces the rather unattractive stock RCS font. I chose the Gemelii font because it has some personality, lends an organic feel to the character speaking, and it is not Comic Sans!

I've been donating an assortment of miscellaneous Mage Gate graphic and audio assets to the Realm Crafter Standard Community Edition being created by Ryan Dean, as I probably wouldn't attempt to produce Mage Gate at all without all the cool improvements that Ryan has been adding to the game engine.

I'm going to try to head outside today and do some audio recording to see if I can't improve some of the default sounds for RCS. Those will most likely get included in the Community Edition Release.

Regarding the RCSCE... I have no idea when Solstar intends to make RCS public or release the source code as promised. An official release of the community edition may hinge on that. The RCSCE developer Ryan, has told me that he is targeting next weekend to start Alpha testing. Yours truly has been selected as part of the limited alpha test team. I'm looking forward to seeing normal mapping in RCS, this is very exciting!

I hope to have indie graphics AKA www.indiegraphics.net back up and in full swing sometime next week. I am contemplating a name change to something more inclusive of game graphics AND audio assets that can currently be found int he indie graphics online asset store. But I don't want to let that cat out of the bag until I have it all set up.

That's news for another week!