I'm currently enjoying some time off work, and I thought for a change I'd hack on the website instead of Eon. I'm currently working on implementing a SVN interface for the website, so that all the SVN info is pulled across to the kruel DB.

One of the key things I want to achieve is the ability for people to provide feedbacks to other coders around their changes. There are a few types of feedback:

Over the weekend I mainly spent my time developing ideas for the card game. The bases of the game is the same as the last ideas I posted to the library. Now I have developed more solid ideas. I should soon have the rules of the game completed and be able to show sample cards. I am not ready to post my new ideas yet however. At the moment I am revising what I have written so I can display it in a more tangible manner. I should have these new ideas up very soon.

This weekend we've had a bit of a hackfest. We had Kipper, Cwraig and Cyborg for various parts of the weekend. We've worked on a few different things, kipper on sound, Cyborg on the card game and Cwraig and I tried to work through a few issues with eon, primarily with auto actions (they're frustrating!).

Hopefully each of them will blog in time, but it was great to have them here! I hope you'll join them next time ... the more the merrier!

install dependancies

sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential subversion build-essential libsdl-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libglut-dev libcegui-mk2-dev libncurses5-dev cmake

Install codeblocks

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ hardy-wx main
deb http://lgp203.free.fr/ubuntu/ hardy universe

Then run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install codeblocks

Now that I'm basically done for the year with uni (save one pesky report) I've had more time for Eon finally! The main thing that has been bugging me has been the auto-attack/repair stuff that had some crazy bugs in it.

I think I've fixed those bugs now, so units will only follow for so far. More testing is required, but once I'm satisfied that this working, i'll make the pursue range flexible, along with an option to disable autos per unit and by default. This will mean additions to the messaging protocol which is a little fiddly but necessary.

Last Wednesday (29-Oct-08) we had a discussion over skype around work needed on Eon to prepare for the 6th of Dec for the lan hosted by http://playtopia.com.au

I've captured some notes and tasks from the meeting. #XXX refers to a numbered task. We will continue to have teleconferences on a Wednesday night until the LAN to ensure we remain focused. If you can attend, be on skype by around 7:45pm and we'll aim to start by 8pm unless otherwise advised.

Not sure if you notice them, but we have sponsor links on the front page of Kruel which is database driven so that we have an easy way of hopefully pushing some traffic to people who bother to work with us.

If you support kruel financially or otherwise, I'm more than happy to add you as a "sponsor". So email me your site name, details etc. and we'll work towards getting you there. No pr0n or affiliate links please :P

I've updated the website with the latest development version. Thanks to stormy for all his hard work in fixing some niggling bugs!

As you may have seen, we're making some solid progress on Eon! I've been spending some time fixing a few bugs found by Stuvik, and commenting the code so that others can follow it more easily.

We're holding a hackfest next weekend at Ycros' house, so get in touch with him if you want to come, or just join us online over the weekend!

This weekend I successfully ported Eon to build and run on Windows, under Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition. I have posted up what are hopefully simple instructions to get up and running on the wiki, along with a screencast. Hopefully this will mean that we'll get more people involved with the project. If you have any feedback or suggestions, drop by IRC at #kruel on irc.kruel.org