FIFE community & development blog

Hello everyone and welcome to another release announcement for FIFE. That’s right, two releases in the span of 2 months!

This release was focused mainly on taking care of some pesky bugs. Unfortunately we were unable to fix all the bugs we wanted to because of some issues with one of our dependencies (namely guichan and it’s event system).  For the most part we took care of everything we set out to fix.

Some of the changes of note for 0.3.1 include:

• Added color key support
• You can now add event listeners to the front of the listener list
• The VFS no longer transforms all filenames to lowercase
• A few build system fixes
• OpenBSD support
• Many Editor fixes

For a full list of changes please visit the 0.3.1  change log.

To download the new version of FIFE please visit our download page on the Wiki.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this release a possibility.  We hope to continue to provide you with regular releases of FIFE to help make developing a game with FIFE a lot easier to manage.

Enjoy!

It’s getting down to crunch time. We have been working very hard to get everything ready for the quickly approaching 0.3.0 release date.  Check out the release schedule for a detailed schedule of the release plan.

The build_system_rework branch is almost complete. We are in the process of adding all the finishing touches to it and making it as developer and user friendly as possible. If anyone is interested in testing it out let us know. A few things have changed in the way this branch works.  We have added a lot of new build and install targets!  FIFE can now be installed in the users python directory which makes packagers lives a lot easier!  For windows developers you will require a new development kit which is temporarily available here. For more information you can also check out Ticket #328.

In other exciting news there is now a FIFE MacPort available. This port was built from the build_system_rework branch and has not been tested yet. The official release of this MacPort will be after the FIFE 0.3.0 release.