It emerged today that Edgemaster has returned. After an alleged tapping up inquiry from Chelsea FC, ‘Edgey’ has had a busy year but has finally returned to upload two of Newts’s finest SF3 battle guides to the sites SF3 guide.
More stuff could be on the way, with the discovery of a half-finished map for the final battle of scenario 1.
Enjoy!
From stordarth of the Bowie Online team:
We have encountered a bit of a setback. The lead programmer of the engine we were using has decided to hang up his spurs, and is no longer programming the engine. This means we are stuck with the features that are there at the moment. The source code for engine has been released however, and one of our staff is looking into it to see if he can continue with the engine. Whilst I am confident he can do a bit, I fear we may be stuck in a rut. If there is anyone out there who knows how to use visual basic 6, and is interested in building on an online game engine that is already established quite well, I’d be glad to hear from you, as my staff are spread thinly enough as it is.
Failing that, we may be forced to work without features that were due to appear in the next release that was planned, and that will put the game back a lot.
From this topic on YOB.
“I suppose I’d best make an announcement about this.
Firstly, I’d like to say a massive thank-you to the people who’ve voiced their support for the project. I realise some (most) of you were just posting ‘cos people here made you, but I’ll let that count :P
Anyways, I’m sure some of you are eager to know if work on SO will resume. The old code is more than a little dated, so most of it is being scrapped. Fear not though, the new features should make up for this short delay in restarting things. There’s still some kinks in the design to work out, but it’ll all get sorted in time. As always, anyone who wants to suggest a feature is welcome to. No idea when the next demo will be out. I wouldn’t count on it being in the next few months, as I have a degree and a girlfriend to take care of. I’ll be using the worklog feature on the site to keep you all updated, so once I fix the site up you can check there to see what me and Newts are doing =)
So in other words, yes, it’s back.”
A heap of updates in this one, here’s a small list:
You can already see the screenshots below and the download link waay above. It’s still more or less a beta version, so any feedback is certainly appreciated!
I hope you guys will like it :)
Today I spent a lot of work completing the spell support and adding AI to BABS, so that you can also fight computer-controlled players in the battles.
Making screenshots of AI tends to be rather hard, but I can show you some stuff from the spells:
Choose different spells, and with different spell levels using a temporary (and ugly) interface ;)
Torture thy enemies with fire straight from the Paint Shop Pro clipart library (which in fact is worse than the Abyss)!
Stay tuned for a beta release containing these features. The engine gets along nicely all in all, but I really do need some more testing and bug reports in order to get the stuff reliable :)
