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Less than a month left to Friday the 28th

I’ve composed a press release that starts like this: Wurm Online to open the Epic Cluster on 28th Oct The Swedish developer Onetoofree announces that their MMO Wurm Online will open the new Epic Cluster on October 28th 2011. “The … Continue reading

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Wurm lighting

Since the early beginning of Wurm we’ve had issues with lighting. The specification for OpenGL says that there is only support for 8 lights. One of those is the sun, normally, and one is reserved for yourself. These limitations used … Continue reading

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Received feedback on Epic Wild map size

In response to my previous post on the planned map sizes for Epic, a forum thread was created where most people agreed that 1024*1024 tiles would be too small especially if there are custom kingdoms. The reason I wanted it … Continue reading

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Update on Epic

I promised to give more info on the Epic progress in a recent post so before I go home for the weekend I’ll spill some beans. We’re receiving the new server to host the Epic cluster next week. It’s a … Continue reading

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Land land land!

The Deliverance server is still being settled, and I’ve decide to release even more land south of it. The Exodus server will be made available tomorrow at 18.00 CET. The idea is that it will cater for those who felt … Continue reading

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Deliverance

Allright, two long evenings after launch date and I can finally relax a bit. The servers are up and running and Independence and Deliverance are connected via a shared border. I don’t want to go into all the things that … Continue reading

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New Freedom server next week!

Due to congestion and the relative difficulty of finding virgin lands on the current Independence server, we’ve decided that it is time to release a new Freedom server. We shall call it Deliverance and it will be the new default … Continue reading

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Soon autumn again

Time to head out to vacation! I’ll be back in a jiffy, in mid August. I’ve tried to prepare for an interesting autumn with lots of improvements and stuff to release. We’ll coordinate things and do a big push some … Continue reading

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Collada progress

You may remember that Alex started looking at the new 3D format Collada last autumn and wonder what happened to it? Basically he had to move on to learn other things since he was in school and this was his … Continue reading

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Epic completed and Cryptik joined

I have some good news, and those are that the Epic code has been finished for something like a week. I still have to debug it but it’s all there and it’s ticking and humming nicely when I run it. We … Continue reading

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