Google Summer of Code starts
Sun, 20 May 2012 18:46:02 +0000

Tomorrow is the official start of the coding for this years students in the Google Summer of Code program. We’re very excited about them and expect exciting results. The students selected for Worldforge are Anthony Pesce, "Develop Mason game system" … Continue reading →

Google Summer of Code 2012 is on!
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:35:21 +0000

Worldforge has once again been accepted in Google Summer of Code! This marks the fifth year Google has allowed us the privilege to work together with students under to Summer of Code program. All previous years students have left us … Continue reading →

Browser plugin, Windows and OSX builds of Ember
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:29:23 +0000

Thanks to the hard work of Péter Szücs during the Google Summer of Code 2011 we can now proudly introduce WebEmber, a browser plugin which allows you to embed Ember in a web page. We support all major browsers on … Continue reading →

Last chance to submit talks for FOSDEM Open Source Games Room
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:10:10 +0000

Nils Kneuper has posted a reminder that the deadline for talk proposals for the Open Source Games Room at FOSDEM next year is less than 24 hours away. View the original proposal here. The idea for this room was born … Continue reading →

Ember 0.6.2 released
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:22:50 +0000

Ember version 0.6.2 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Ember is a 3d client for the WorldForge project. It uses the Ogre 3d graphics library for presentation and CEGUI for its GUI system. This … Continue reading →

GSoC report 2011: Martin Preisler
Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:42:54 +0000

Hi, I am Martin Preisler ("Kulik" on various IRC networks and forums) from Czech Republic. This year I got accepted into Google Summer of Code and had the pleasure to work for Worldforge. Introduction I was working on Ember’s GUI … Continue reading →

Code moved to GitHub.
Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:27:34 +0000

The Worldforge project has previously hosted most of our actively developed applications and libraries on our own Git server. Since a couple of months we have however migrated to using GitHub instead. This isn’t really such a big change as … Continue reading →

How to edit models in Ember on the fly
Tue, 24 May 2011 19:48:41 +0000

Below is a short video showing how easy it is to alter the Ember models on the fly, to better fit with the data sent from the server. Since Worldforge is built around the server and client agnostic Atlas protocol, … Continue reading →

Google Summer of Code soon starting
Sun, 22 May 2011 12:23:38 +0000

Tomorrow is the official start of coding for Google Summer of Code 2011. Like last year Worldforge teamed up with the Ryzom project to help them with mentoring. Together we were allocated eight slots, evenly split. The Worldforge projects are: … Continue reading →

An inspirational video from Terraria
Thu, 19 May 2011 08:15:40 +0000

Terraria has just been released this week, and is a 2D game with a lot of similar elements to Minecraft. Check out the video below for some of the amazing things their world simulation can do, including blasting out the … Continue reading →