Technopolies

[rolz]

Yes, a sort of. Still, it's not professional hosting, it's a spare box one of my friends "donated" to the cause of Technopolies The server is in Moscow, but it's far more responsive than the previous one.

[rolz]

fuff... finally got some spare time from my day work.

- player can now open / close doors
- added "key-locked" doors, which  can be opened/locked with proper key
- added plastic keycards
- added NPC which gives you plastic key on Coalition Base location

[CinergyStudios]

lookin good

[Aramaz]

How many hours (avg) each day do you work on this?

This is starting to look really good... you get alot of things done in small time, impressive! (tribute to the goodness of the java language as well as yourself)

Wish I had more time to program on my own game also... but job and family takes too much time.

[rolz]

I don't have opportunity to work on game every day because of the day job. I mostly work from home, at night, and all through weekends (if not doing something for my day job already) - so it should be ~about 10-15 hours every week, i think.

The bad thing is i dont have good connection at home, so when it comes to upload updates/screens - i must bring files to work and do it from there ;(

P.S. The project has been in the works since August,2005. Actually, it started in Sept, 2004 but later I had to scrap everything and start from a scratch (reached point-of-no-return with of my old game architecture).  To make a game like techno you need: JPCT and 10-15 hours a week for about 5 months. I'd say it is worth trying.

[Aramaz]

Well, with 10 - 15 h/week from august, the result is very impressive!

I'm working on a space shooter myself, it's only 2d but multiplayer on internet, started a tiny bit last christmas... but on avg I can only put in like 4-8 hours a week... and sometimes it goes several weeks when I don't get anything done...

Anyways, it's a lot of fun, and soon I hope to get it up for more testing than just my local friends...

After I'm finished with that I might try something 3d... but we're expecting our 2nd child... so come july I'll probably not have any time at all for game programming...

I'd really like to try out jpct... the results are looking really good.

[rolz]

Good news for Technopolies.
- We have moved to a new site
- The team has grown to 3 members who will be responsible for the web site and game server.

The dev journal is currently migrating from JPCT forum

Currently, you can check game's Dev Journal, Screenshots and Vote on game improvements.
We plan to add more new content, arrange proper download section and in time add own discussion board (until then Forum section links to JPCT site).

Welcome to *Removed*, and wish us good luck !

Technopolies dev team.

P.S. Helge, many thanks for your support, i appreciate it and will soon put proper credits on the game's site.

[dbz]

первый нах!

[EgonOlsen]

Great news!  Now you just have to move away from JGF with the webstart version. That site was a nice idea but blah^3 completely ran it into the ground with his "use a sledgehammer to crack a nut and blame others if it doesn't work out"-behaviour...  :cry:

[raft]

good luck rolz ! and tech site looks cool  

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[CinergyStudios]

looks very good hey u just hosting the site? or u just paying a monthly from a phone company or somehting

[rolz]

Thanks folks, I hope the site will give a push to the JPCT community and attract new people.

2Cinergy: yes, that's paid hosting, i plan to move JNLP and downloads there once all changes scheduled for the next version are done.

[CinergyStudios]

hey what progam u using to model?... and a just a question about jpct as well: can u use .OBJ models

[rolz]

I am not sure if JPCT supports .OBJ
What are benefits of using OBJ over 3DS ?

[CinergyStudios]

well its just i was having some problems exporting some models out of my modler to 3DS even though they were 3 point polygons.. anywho what modler do u use?