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First month of Google Summer of Code

by Mithro

With the first month of GSoC almost gone, I thought I would horribly embarrass all our wonderful students by sending this email which links to all their blogs.

Why not help out and test the students work? Please ask questions or just comment on their blogs! I encourage everyone to at least put the blogs in their feed readers.

Jphr has been working on a Risk clone. He has finally got a working Risk ruleset which he is now debugging. Hopefully he will now create a simple AI to help with his testing :) After the mid-term evaluation he hopes to add options for more interesting variations and universe loading.

JLafont has been working on a totally new game called DroneSec. His progress also has been very good and will soon have a basic playable game. Already a majority of the orders needed have been implemented and combat is taking shape.

Jmtan has created a delicious meal for your eyes with a almost functional 3D client. It already supports a majority of interactions with the server and will soon allow you to easily work with orders. The screen shots look awesome and everyone should check it out. You can come and see some of our cool artwork being shown off.

Ezod has been working on splitting the console from the server. He has successfully make tpserver-cpp a real daemon and is now working on creating a client to actually do the configuration. This should make running servers much easier to run and maintain.

Iwanowitch has been working hard on a rule based AI for RFTS. He has his constraint store almost working and has had a basic client interacting with a server.

Nuleren is working on a game called Tigrus and Euphrates. A large number of orders have been created and the universe is generally taking shape.

vi1985 has been working hard on Iwanowitch's competition :). He has been working on an AI which is based around genetic algorithms. He has a basic java client working to help visualise how the AI will work.

Pluskid has been working hard on improving schemepy. Schemepy will become the backend that all our python components use for scheme parsing. He has gotten both a mzscheme and a guile back end working. He has also tested out various pure-python implementations. The speed improvements for doing scheme processing is very impressive.

Posted: 2008-06-25-1813