I see I'm still appearing a ludicrous number of times on the active user list, something

that only appears to happen to me for some weird reason.

Reasons for this (As debated by Myself):

1.) V3 likes me

2.) V3 is screwed up

3.) Past and future instances of myself are logging in from their respective timelines.

4.) I have clones.

OK, besides this, my main reason for blogging is to shed some light on my project. You know, the one that I hope can kill Minecraft. (Fat chance).

Anyways, it's a Roguelike based game, in realtime of course, with multiplayer etc.

My design document is keeping steady (No new additions for a while) and the engine is working. Well. I have the multiplayer framework buit in from the ground up (The hydra library.), as well as mod support.

I have gotten so far as creating and loading levels, picking up weapons, using said weapons, and some basic gameplay (Hit rats over and over!)

I'm not giving you any preview code, since I'm still coding like crazy. I do promise to give you a demo ASAP, probably when the multiplayer code is working (Because fighting over who gets that +2 Ring of Strength is more fun than Singleplayer).

As for the modding side, any texture format can be used (PCX, TGA, BMP, PNG,

JPG, GIF, more possible. Viva SFML), sounds are limited to OGG and WAV,

Controls are changeable, and support either using the keyboard only, gamepad only, or keyboard+mouse.

Weapons and items are MD2 or RAW models, and descriptor files are used to

define the behavior and animations for these items/weapons.

ABRIDGED VERSION:

My game engine is nearly complete, I am nearly ready to make the first demo.

Now, Back to the IDE.