What I Did On Summer Vacation

[kuscotopia]

Hi all,

I have been shy. I haven't shared with you all the project that has been keeping me away from Sundren recently, but no longer! Together with my good friend Gabe we have launched our first indie game project: The Electric Adventures of Watt.

Ultimately we have the big pie-in-sky dream of developing an open-source, openly-licensed version of a NWN2-like toolbox but that will take money and man power we don't have at the moment. If we are successful, we hope that this first title we give us the funds and connections to tackle this much larger endeavor.

Cheers!

[Snowmane]

Nice. I'll have to check out your project in more depth later. As for a nwn2 toolkit, I was looking into creating a commercial nwn2 inspired game with the pathfinder ruleset and a better mod toolset using the C4 engine, but that would take considerable time and funding.

[kuscotopia]

Yeah, coding aside the sheer amount of art assets required is staggering.

We elected to write our game engine from scratch as we wanted the ability to break away from the client/server model. We think it would be cool if a group of trusted systems were allowed to host a world like Sundren rather than one individual (thanks, Saulus!) taking on all the burden of hosting.

[Snowmane]

A distributed system would be a great way to go. The keyword is trusted though - because securing a distributed system like that can be problematic.

[kuscotopia]

Heh, absolutely.

That's one of the reasons why I chose Erlang for the guts of the engine. Communication between processes is automatically encrypted with shared keys.

[Kitsunestume]

Sounds awesome. I'll check it out tonight.

Cheers,
Kit.

[DM_Acorn]

Hey folks, and now you know my reasons for absenteeism, as I have been the artist behind it all. Please accept my apologies here and now. With much yet to do my play times will be limited but I know that I will need to log some time on sundren, for my own sanity.

[Doubtful]

That looks like a cool project! The best of luck with it!

I have to add my name to the list of large scale toolbox dreamers, though I was erring toward either Unreal or Unity (probably Unity - The store is really handy for filling out art assets). Sadly an unrealistic project for anything short of a well financed and rounded group though, I ended up scaling back to a small, modular, rpg, then scaled back again to core components developed as self-contained games/systems that could later be reassembled into a completeish CRPG system.

Still, one-day eh?

[Mournas]

Yeah I thought it would be a great idea to take 18 Credits during the summer semester, needless to say I have been slammed with studying.

Aside from that, I have been theory crafting in the realms of academia. Which, needless to say, has been taking a lot of my spare time with research.

[Dispater]

Looks great! I am sure I speak for most (all) that we would like to see you guys in game, but looks like you are doing something awesome with your time away.

I think I can shake out the couch to help development along.

[Fezzik]

Typical... the machines want to destroy the poor organics

[kuscotopia]

Typical... the machines want to destroy the poor organics

Yeah, but our machines are powered by mechanical energy and use tape drives...so...

[Saulus]

Cool beans. I'm starting a Unity project with a friend, it will be my first true successor project to Sundren. Going to try a kickstarter once I get the demo off the ground.

You guys have a great start so far, making things from scratch can't be easy!

[Fezzik]

Yeah, but our machines are powered by mechanical energy and use tape drives...so...

Oh My God!!! Vic 20 machines out to kill organics, that's even worse

[bipolar bear]

Oh My God!!! Vic 20 machines out to kill organics, that's even worse

did you win the vic 20 by spelling it from the bottom of coke cans?