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| Name: | Prairie Games |  |
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| Date Posted: | Sep 25, 2005 | |
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Blog post
Minions of Mirth - The End of the Open Alpha Era
The Minions of Mirth Open Alpha test has come to an end.
We're now moving into Beta and are in the process of splitting out a ***DRUM ROLL***:
Demo Version
The beta will be accessible to people who were active in the Open Alpha Test and/or who purchase the game for the special pre-order price of $25.
Cheesy 80's Marketing Power!!!
Sweet!
In other news, I have embedded our patcher technology on both OSX and Windows. The game can now PATCH ITSELF with new code and content. We do this A LOT!!!!
Live Update
Patching in executables and shared libraries on Windows is annoyingly tricky...
Another cool thing about the patcher technology is that it uses SSL over HTTP... and is coordinated with our master server... which also handles user registration... I can grant access from the Demo to the Beta by SSH'ing in the master server and flipping a switch. This of course will be automated :)
I'll have more stuff in a little bit... We're hard at work on the Demo/Beta split!
-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games
We're now moving into Beta and are in the process of splitting out a ***DRUM ROLL***:
Demo Version
The beta will be accessible to people who were active in the Open Alpha Test and/or who purchase the game for the special pre-order price of $25.
Cheesy 80's Marketing Power!!!
Sweet!
In other news, I have embedded our patcher technology on both OSX and Windows. The game can now PATCH ITSELF with new code and content. We do this A LOT!!!!
Live Update
Patching in executables and shared libraries on Windows is annoyingly tricky...
Another cool thing about the patcher technology is that it uses SSL over HTTP... and is coordinated with our master server... which also handles user registration... I can grant access from the Demo to the Beta by SSH'ing in the master server and flipping a switch. This of course will be automated :)
I'll have more stuff in a little bit... We're hard at work on the Demo/Beta split!
-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games
Recent Blog Posts
| List: | 03/29/08 - TGEA 1.7 Build System and Embedded Python 03/14/08 - MegaTerrains - TGEA Update 01/18/08 - Minions of Mirth: Undead Wars Expansion 01/04/08 - Physics Overhaul - Video 12/26/07 - Web Integration - Video 12/21/07 - New MMO Client - Trees - Day/Night Video 12/18/07 - Minions of Mirth - 1.26 - Holiday Edition! 11/28/07 - TGB/TGEA integration first pass |
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Submit your own resources!| Unsung Zero (Sep 25, 2005 at 03:25 GMT) |
I pre-ordered awhile ago.
I'm looking forward to MoM's release.
Keep it up.
| Joshua Dallman (Sep 25, 2005 at 04:13 GMT) |
btw, I'm pretty sure "live update" is a registered trademark of symantec, may want to change it
congrats on the ongoing progress! wish I had time to play myself but I know I'd end up wasting just hours and hours playing, and it's already too easy to do that as it is!
| Evi - Cubix Studio (Sep 25, 2005 at 08:37 GMT) |
making MMORPG game is surely not an easy task, this is an amazing news for the indie community :D
| Jon Ferris (Sep 25, 2005 at 09:51 GMT) |
http://www.symantec.com/legal/legal_note.html
| Ben -Djaggernaut- Chavigner (Sep 25, 2005 at 10:10 GMT) |
| Prairie Games (Sep 25, 2005 at 13:14 GMT) |
On the LiveUpdate(tm) thing... google for "Live Update"... It's madness!!! I'm not concerned...
-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games
| Michael Cozzolino (Sep 25, 2005 at 17:56 GMT) |
| David Montgomery-Blake (Sep 26, 2005 at 16:14 GMT) |
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