Information

• Duration: 0.75 hours (21:00-21:45 GMT+1)
• Attendance: Rotonen, Hammerbear, ElvenProgrammer, maci, zenogais

Summary

• We agreed to try a monthly release schedule. So with 0.0.9 released on 30th of January, 0.0.10 is scheduled by the end of this month, with the next version the month after that, etc. This should remove any doubt about when the next release is from both team members and players.

• With the 0.0.10 release less than 2 weeks away, we have still set the following set of goals to be reached by then, on top of changes already made since 0.0.9. These are all important milestones in the development of The Mana World, and they don't go too far in the sense that things will need to be re-done a great deal when we start working on our own server. Whatever isn't finished by the end of this month will have to wait for 0.0.11 or 0.1.0.
  • PhysicsFS usage for loading data from packages (zenogais)
  • XML map loading so that Tiled is supported (Hammerbear)
  • New GUI look (Bertram)
  • More functional inventory/equipment (ElvenProgrammer)
  • New tileset (the artists)
  • New, expanded, city map (Chetic)

• If you haven't noticed already, we have a new team member, his name is Kyokai. He's been writing on the forums, wiki and has been in discussion on IRC, in order to involve everybody who would like to get involved in the planning of our own skills and advancement system. A general concensus seems to be almost reached, with specific parts still being discussed. Pretty soon Kyokai could start to implement this system. Be sure to stay informed about this development if you care about where TMW is heading in this area.

• Rotonen is in need of a co-director in the art department. Rotonen is currently the central contact point for the artists. The co-director will have to know what needs to be done and what has been assigned to each artist. The most important part may be to comment on the work of the artists, to answer their questions and to give them directions.

• maci asked wether Tiled has a feature to export the map as an image, and this feature is indeed available. It would be nice if the result could be used to create a nice looking minimap of the area.

• ElvenProgrammer added an interesting part about server architecture in docs/architecture.txt. Anybody who's interested or involved in development of the server part should read this.