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Welcome to 2011!, mSparks, January 6, 2011 |
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Been an interesting few years tbh, feel a bit guilty I've not given LTKTBM more time, certainly want to finish a "gold" release this year, with all the Q2 maps, textures and routes so AQ2 can never die. Yes, I know there are still some very active AQ2 communities, but the scene is nothing like it was.. We all got old, married, some are even parents now.
Most of my time has been spent parallel developing the LTBTBM backbone with other projects (currently researching for a PHD..), most of that is now complete and I'm thinking I may leave the 1.9 codebase where it is. Its stable, works well and captures most of AQ2. I've looked at various options to move forward: integrating AQ2:TNG, some kind of new generation gfx engine (bringing in the jitspoes menu & my water code, with the now essential Linux build - rather than using wine like I do now), but it is just so much work and I'm not convinced they would add much.
Right now I'm thinking a 1.95 Final Gold release of LTKTBM. Then shift focus here onto LTBTBM.
One of the main reasons I've not been able to do more on LTKTBM is the LTBTBM stuff has been running nearly 24/7 for the past few years on my development machine, which has meant there has been little to no opportunity to do any other developement, so much so that the only games I've played on the PC for what seems like forever is LTKTBM and a neat flash game called Xantrolex, not helped by a drought of playable titles with Linux dual monitor support.
However, that's all shifted onto its own super sexy server rack now (there should be a ltktbm server going up on that eventually, as long as it doesn't interfere with my ps3 COD gaming, in which case it will have to wait until I get a second Broadband line installed), So, 2011 is the year I get my computer back from the (semi) evil clutches of TBM so I can do some more varied development. |
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Bit of cleaning, mSparks, September 12, 2010 |
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The world went and changed on us. At least that's what it feels like. Been so long since I did anything really serious on here, yet when I think back to how much of my life it consumed......
These days my life is mostly consumed with LTBTBM stuff, gradually working my way towards something that resembles a release. I'm on the look out for an engine which can support large maps and decent player modelz. Needs to be cross platform (got a windows machine -Laptop- for the first time in years the other month, not sure how long it will stay that way, but Windows 7 seems OK), don't mind Java (JMonkeyEngine looks promising).
Quakesrc seems to be dead and gone.
Long live QuakeDev:
http://www.quakedev.com// |
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Yeah I deleted lots of things I shouldn't have., mSparks, July 24, 2010 |
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Not sure where the news posts contents went, but they are gone.
No great loss just a little annoying. |
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Todays great discovery, mSparks, May 10, 2007 |
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Knowing the future is useless, the importance is how we get there. In this respect it doesn't even matter if we can change it.
Just three exams of my degree left, with one of them tommorrow, LTBTBM is coming on a storm, and with the demise of the examination period I may actually get the forums back up, just be sure it will all be done and it will be good.
I would also like to direct your attention to a blog I've been watching on and off for over a year now:
Riverbend Baghdad Burning its (apparently) by an anonymous girl who lives in baghdad, giving a slightly different perspective of whats actually happening than that of our manipulative and alternate agenda media. To her, I wish you luck, good health and a safe journey. Please remember it is not 'America' or the 'UK' it is obscene individuals who go by the names of Labour, Neoconservatives and other 'elite' groups who rule our countries the same way Baghdad is being run today.
To all those who 'cheered' Saddams death I pray, with hindsight, you see that murder takes you to only one place, and its not very nice. |
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Site Maintenance, mSparks, February 9, 2007 |
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Due to a major hardware failure in January at our ISP, our forums are currently offline. I have recently fixed login and logout for existing site members, but you cant register until I get time to bring the forums back up (which will be a switch to the latest version of phpBB).
At the same time, Im probably going to bring in advertisements for unregistered, non contributing members. |
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