Saturday, December 5, 2009

Holiday coding

With the exams over, I finally have a bit of time to put into Thousand Parsec, at least until January :) After a conversation with mithro, I've decided to set the following goals:
  • The wxwidgets client now has a single-player mode built in, which can be ported into the 3d client.
  • The client uses version 3 of the thousand parsec protocol (tp03), whereas the current servers already support a new version (tp04). Upgrading the protocol used will allow us to deprecate the old one.
  • tp04 comes with some new features, such as media server support. This means that various media such as 3d models, music, icons and such related to a specific game can be downloaded from a server, instead of being packaged with the base client.
I'd love to add "write a build process for Windows, Linux and Mac binaries" to the list, but it's proved to be a huge timesink in the past and I'd like to concentrate on getting the functionality right first.

3 comments:

Sylk said...

This post is quite old, I hope u'll read my comment someday...

Anyway, the reason I write you is to ask if you are by any chance related with Eugen Tan aka E-Tan, a former VGAP player and an old friend of mine. You know, we used to play planets togheter and talked a lot back in the days.

If you are indeed related with him, pls tell him I said hi and that I am looking forward to be talking with him again. :)

My contact email is dragos dot marinescu at f2b dot ro

If this is just a mere coincidence of name, than please ignore my post, and my sincere appologies for the mess. :)

Kind regards.

Eugene Tan said...

Hi Sylk,

I'm afraid it's just a coincidence, I hope that you can catch up with him again sometime though :)

Samuel Kung skung89@gmail.com said...

want to collab? I'm a 3d artist?
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