Blog News & Status Update
As some of you already know, the Realm Wars dev team hasn't been too speedy in regards to keeping the news on this site up to date, we apoligize for this, sometimes its just easier to be more concerned with development than it is with marketing and pushing news out there. We are hoping that by running the news & updates as a Blog we can keep things a bit more current for everyone. (note: the RSS feed might not be working at this time).
Ok so what exactly is going on with Realm Wars, or Realm Wars 2 as some of you may have noticed. Well first up is the fact that the game is no longer a community project, there are a variety of reasons for this but the most important issues that you will care about are: a) there were too many development issues, people only wanted to contribute what they felt were "cool" items versus the nitty gritty things that make a game; b) 99% of community contributions were less than professional quality and thats just not acceptable, nor is it acceptable for the team to take their time to fix or respond to these shoddy contributions; c) we could not leverage the resources we needed to leverage into Realm Wars as an "community" project, in essensce this is stuff like the Lighting Pack, AI Pack, code we created when developing Lore Invasion the unreleased Horse Pack and other 3rd party resources not developed by GG; d) we had to wrap up work on our other games first, some of us were working on Lore Invasion (which was a 2005 IGF finalist) as well as the forthcoming puzzle game Hack It!
So what exactly does this mean to you? Well first off it means that the next release of Realm Wars is actually going to be professional and complete. We are not releasing until we have a solid FPS frame work running and that's something the entire team has agreed upon. Quite literally everything is getting replaced and updated from the ground up. If you are wondering when this release will come out, we are hoping for late June, but Real Life™ always seems to creep its ugly head into development so it might be later. Second is that there will not be any source code released to the public, you will still see limited script access but our development CVS is closed off (if you like the GG CVS is still available to update from). Third is that we will be running dedicated servers and an in-game lobby system in the next update so it will be easier for you to find others to play with.
That's all that I have to update you with now, sorry, but keep checking out the site as the development team will have access to perform updates to this blog as they occur (plus the site itself is eventually going to get an update). Thanks for your interest in Realm Wars!
