TWF News. 1. TWF Opinion Polls 2. Explorer 2260 Update. 3. Maim & Mangle Update. 4. Next News Update ~~~~~~ 1. TWF Opinion Polls The poll we have been running for over a month now has now finished. We asked the question: With the recent buyout of the Amiga by Amino just before the new year, do you think this will reverse the amigas fortunes ? The final votes are: Yes - 142 No - 19 Don't Know - 26 A new poll has been added with the following question: With quite a number of ports of popular PC games currently being ported to the Amiga platform, what would be your prefered option for TWF to do ? Just two choices this time, Game Ports or Originals. 2. Explorer 2260 Update. News this month: - A lovely picture of the shipyard that appears in the game was added to the E2260 section of the TWF website early this month. - Finialised jump engine configurations and space/weight requirements. Reworked some of the theoretical hyperspatial physics to allow for multidimensional effects. - Redesigned several ship system areas to use realtime 3D generated visuals instead of pre rendered scenes. - Added 2D animation facilities to the graphics abstraction layer - Investigation of PowerPlay communications protocol started. 3. Maim & Mangle Update. News this month: - Work is progressing on porting the game engine to using miniGL developed by Hyperion. - Work is also being on adding the path finding to the game. Both these parts are due for mid March. - All the Terran units have been modeled. And nathan has this to say. - Getting myself up to speed on the M&M documentation. - Learning the layout of the engine source and where my code is going to go. - Putting the engine source through various compilers. This is a benefit to me as I use several compilers, and for the future linux port. - Digging though my stacks of magazines (game developer etc.) and books for anything useful. I've done a fair amount of reading this month. - Playing games (not that much!) for ideas and inspiration. 4. Next News Update 1st April 2000 All the best, Ed. ________ _________ \___ \ / \ / ___// ICQ: 34895924 | \ \\_/\_// __// TWF Home : http://www.worldfoundry.com/ |_ /__\____/_// CEG Home : http://www.worldfoundry.com/ceg/ ================================================================= The World Foundry LLC - Amiga PPC - Explorer 2260 - Maim & Mangle