FIFE community & development blog

Heya! Good news for all translators: Setting up terminology files is possible in pootle since today. This means that you see the most important and relevant translations for each strings – pootle c...

Hey everybody! We are proud to announce that Unknown Horizons, together with FIFE, is able to mentor three full-time students this summer, funded by Google to work on Open Source projects!In particul...

Heya everybody,today we proudly announce our next release: Unknown Horizons 2011.1! We added several new features in 2011.1, including: Increment 3: Settlers with a lot of new buildings Mountain...

More than a month ago the PARPG team ended the 1-month Character Customization Sprint. It was all about designing and implementing character stats and creation.

The participants talked about the sprint on chat and in this forum thread but let me sum up the opinions that were expressed (a few contradictions and conflicts of interest ahead ):

Positive

• The sprint was a success
• The short, regular meetings (2 per week) were motivating and increased  efficiency
• PARPGians are “Fennecs“
• Critical code that needed fixing was identified
• Trac tickets were helpful for keeping overview

Negative/Suggestions

• There were bottlenecks between departments – department-specific sprints could work better?
• Sprint target (character customization) has little importance for gameplay in early versions of PARPG – figure out higher-priority targets?
• Sprints should be shorter / contain less tasks
• More small (non-[epic] user story) tickets would have been helpful – somebody responsability for writing new tickets needs to be defined
• Subversion is hard to work with using a clean development style

Dependency Graph for Ticket #264 (Character customization based on stats and attributes) Everybody likes pictures!

Hi everyone,the application period for google summer of code is closed now. We are happy to announce that we received a total of 32 applications!  That's an overwhelming number of applications. Th...

Heya,I figured to write this entry since the application period opens in some minutes.When submitting your application, please include links to the wiki page where you introduce yourself and, if you m...

Hey everybody, we are almost overwhelmed by the large amount of students interested in our organization. Thanks so much for spending your time with us! It is an awesome feeling to see how many of you...

Hey Folks, maybe some of you already realized it, but let's still start with good news again: We replaced all of our non-free content in the master branch! :)Many non-free graphics were substituted b...

Heya everybody! Really good news today for everybody interested in our Summer of Code efforts:Unknown Horizons was accepted as a mentoring organization by Google today! GSoC in a very small nutshell:...

Heya and welcome to another short update! In our last meeting we discussed the current blocker issues that currently prevent us from releasing. We addressed these two as showstoppers: Problems wit...