I restarted the game today because when I initially copied the game here, it was from my local test server and all values were out of balance. In Solar Imperium 3 you are not supposed to have values over few millions.
I also produced a source code snapshot for the adventurous who might want to install it on their servers.
http://www.solarimperium.com/downloads/solar30_source_28mars2011.zip
You can post any bugs to http://www.mrgtech.ca/support, it will really help me.
To play online, the link is still the same: http://www.solarimperium.com/alpha/
Btw, it was fun to see old players coming back to play on the alpha version :)
lundi 28 mars 2011
jeudi 10 mars 2011
Updates and an humble request for help
I was hoping to release the 3.0 before 2011 but I miscalculated how much hours a day can have. Here a list of missing things in the code:
- Guerilla , Nuclear warfare and invasion code
- Empires can get really down without ever collapsing (have to add a collapse check somewhere)
- Facebook integration
That's it for the code, everything else is working:
- Create / manage players with or without email verification at signup
- Administrative interface completed (Create games)
- Can join games as emperor/ess
- Can do turns with full economic calculations
- Covert operations
- Pirate raids
- Solar Bank
- Automatic food sold on market
- Supply production
- Research tree
- New command ship system
... and so on ... etc.
A incomplete product is better than no product. I have put a alpha version online if you want to try it:
http://www.solarimperium.com/alpha
You are free to test it and find and exploit bugs as long as you don't get root access to my server :)
If you find something that does not work as intended, please report it to me through this blog.
Request for help:
Once in a blue moon, a programmer have to bypass his ego and ask for help. I am working at part-part time on this project for something like five years. Along the years I had alot of fun debugging and developping this project with all sort of players around the world. I think this project start to be overwhelming for me and my already full coding schedule. If you want to help me complete this project here a list of things the game is currently needing:
- Real artwork made by someone with talent :)
- Research tree is not populated at all, someone want to define which researchs to add? A new feature of the research tree is that is now a real tree. You can set prerequire technologies to unlock better ones.
- No help file written so far / Galaxypedia.
- Tutorial pages are also empty.
- Maybe adding some programmers which may accelerate things? (PHP5, MySQL, JQuery).
- Someone who could fix all my spelling errors.
- Translators?
- Testers (Game logic, tweaking values, cross-browsers support)
By the way, this game is released for free under public license, I can put your name in a credits page but I cannot offer much more.
Anyway, time to sleep.
Yanick
- Guerilla , Nuclear warfare and invasion code
- Empires can get really down without ever collapsing (have to add a collapse check somewhere)
- Facebook integration
That's it for the code, everything else is working:
- Create / manage players with or without email verification at signup
- Administrative interface completed (Create games)
- Can join games as emperor/ess
- Can do turns with full economic calculations
- Covert operations
- Pirate raids
- Solar Bank
- Automatic food sold on market
- Supply production
- Research tree
- New command ship system
... and so on ... etc.
A incomplete product is better than no product. I have put a alpha version online if you want to try it:
http://www.solarimperium.com/alpha
You are free to test it and find and exploit bugs as long as you don't get root access to my server :)
If you find something that does not work as intended, please report it to me through this blog.
Request for help:
Once in a blue moon, a programmer have to bypass his ego and ask for help. I am working at part-part time on this project for something like five years. Along the years I had alot of fun debugging and developping this project with all sort of players around the world. I think this project start to be overwhelming for me and my already full coding schedule. If you want to help me complete this project here a list of things the game is currently needing:
- Real artwork made by someone with talent :)
- Research tree is not populated at all, someone want to define which researchs to add? A new feature of the research tree is that is now a real tree. You can set prerequire technologies to unlock better ones.
- No help file written so far / Galaxypedia.
- Tutorial pages are also empty.
- Maybe adding some programmers which may accelerate things? (PHP5, MySQL, JQuery).
- Someone who could fix all my spelling errors.
- Translators?
- Testers (Game logic, tweaking values, cross-browsers support)
By the way, this game is released for free under public license, I can put your name in a credits page but I cannot offer much more.
Anyway, time to sleep.
Yanick
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| Some random screenshot from my today's development. |
jeudi 30 décembre 2010
Some screenshots
I am currently working on the battle part but I still took some time for screenshot. More to come soon ...
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| Chat System |
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| Diplomacy Screen |
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| My First Turn |
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| Lottery Screen |
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| Manager Screen (Buy Planets and units) |
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| Empire Preferences |
lundi 27 décembre 2010
Some Updates
solarimperium.com is down for a week or two. This is due to domain hosting plan renewal from my old ISP which do not own the domain anymore :) It will be back soon but for now you can use http://imperium.mrgtech.ca
I will post some screenshots really soon (like today or tomorrow) about development. I evaluate the product to be 90% complete. I am still working on battles and covert operations but everything else is completed.
I will post some screenshots really soon (like today or tomorrow) about development. I evaluate the product to be 90% complete. I am still working on battles and covert operations but everything else is completed.
lundi 9 août 2010
Images and Updates
So far, the game development goes well. I am alone on the project but I can spare some hours scattered over the weeks to work on it. What is completed?
- Administration panel
- User registration and login
- Joining a game, resigning from a game
- Games statistics and browser
I also removed the CRON requirement.
Created a blog about Solar Imperium 3 development
I created a blog to upload development screenshots and updates for people who are interested in this kind of stuff.
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