Archive for the ‘General Grit Stuff’ Category

This screen-shot was digitally enhanced during the down-scaling process. lol.

Spark is going to stop compiling the .zip releases that can be downloaded from the web. Instead, everyone that wants to be up-to-date should use SVN.

You can check this quick guide to SVN in the forums about setting up SVN to use with Grit. It is intuitive and useful and ensures that everyone can stay up to date at a time where the engine changes so much that releases are a wasteful duty.

There will still be zip releases, but as those are quite slow to do (Changing OS to compile) it will only happen when there is a good bunch of new features to brag about from the SVN.

I broke the forum, after a lot of working on it and then a lot more working on it to fix new things that kept popping up, so needless to say there is the Google cached version to resurrect your topics and posts, but they are gone on-site. There is nothing wrong with SMF, it just seems that to get what we need out of it, I kept having to break and fix it. We will need all need a new account.

We have changed to PHPbb simply as a wider used, seemingly more easily-administered forum once things are set up. Most people will probably be happy to hear that, and while I’m sorry we lost our first bits in the forum, I am definitely glad it happened before it was more populated with content. If we were much bigger it would have been really upsetting, I’m sure.

We will have the forums in order for posting again soon, in the mean time you can grab your new account and watch the Grit RSS for a short announcement that says the preliminary topic and category structure is ready and open.

The newest pre-alpha snapshot will be back on the forums within 24 hours.

UPDATE DE IMPORTANTAY: Brian broke the forum, see newer news for info.

UPDATE: Another new release in the quoted link below. Keep an eye to that topic for all new releases to get to know grit . We’ll have them there until we make an official release.

Spark started a topic where he released an alpha build of the game engine over on the game engine forum. You can now grab a copy for yourself and start learning how things will be done in Grit and get acquainted with all the rendering effects and interactive objects already available.

Keep in mind that Grit is early alpha and open source, so the use of the forum, svn, and wiki will likely be key to your success in the use and development of Grit. That being said, don’t hesitate to ask for help with anything, no matter how small.

Should you happen to find us before we’ve finished playing with this new site, leave comments with any suggestions or queries regarding Grit and we will try to answer your questions in subsequent news pieces.

Alternatively, you can register and participate at the new game engine forum.

There are a couple of videos and you can build the Grit Game Engine on your own, however, no binaries are yet being publicly served. Get involved for access to the latest builds.