Impending volity shtuff for YOU

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The betapalooza is this Thursday evening from 7 to 11. Come visit us in person at 2 Linden Ave (bringing a laptop if you can), or stay home and log in with Javolin. I posted the latest release of the client (0.3.0) yesterday. You should download and use that.

Yeah, we still have the same old games as the last two events. ONLY MORESO. Some (especially Fluxx) have received more bug-fixing and fine-tuning lately, and Javolin itself has lots of little new features and improvements that need testing.

So, turning to the issue of actually getting some new games on the system...

I am working today on bringing ALL of the Perl documentation up to date (including taking recent critiques from Bill and daerr into account), and providing clear, simple example code with that distribution.

I will then commence a push to start our developer-beta period with posts to both the volity-devel mailing list and this LJ (which is the closest thing we have right now to an official Volity blog, at least with the Volity-tagged posts). I know a lot of potential Volity game hackers are reading this (and are subscribed to the mailing list as well), and I hope to finally activate all of y'all with this. Stay tuned...

Comments

[queue.livejournal.com]

From previous Betpalooza experience, do you think people will stop playing at 11 or continue some more? I'm going to be in Pacific time zone, but it's possible I'll be free right near the end of the thing.

[katre50.livejournal.com]

Will the documentation focus on the server-side or the UI-side? Having looked a few months ago (and at the python version, not the perl version), the server-side looked relatively easy, but trying to do what seemed to be a fairly simple UI was a nightmare. Mostly what I'd want is either a "best practices" document or a nice shiny javascript library with lots of UI.make_region(), region.add_image() calls or something, I guess.

Short version: I suck at visual design anyway. Someone want to implant that skill directly into my brain? Thanks!

[cnoocy]

Whee!