Welcome back! Scourge is still being worked on, but slowly, because the regular contributors are away ATM and I am preparing to start my own game project. However, Gabor did implement city signs that tell you the city's name and he also did a bit of performance optimization by disabling fog in the outdoors.

I'm currently coding on another project, but will continue to monitor Scourge so I can maintain this column.

That said, stay tuned and see you again soon!

Hello and welcome back! Work on the game is still progressing rather slowly, but I plan to set up my development environment again very soon and at least fix a few bugs and do some optimizations in addition to my other project related work. Gabor already started fixing some of the more specific cases of outdoor slowness.

If you run the SVN version and have a basic understanding of C++, you are welcome to share your ideas on how to improve performance or fix little glitches, as we are very short on development manpower at the moment :-/

So, see you next week for the next edition of the column!

Hello and welcome to the 32nd edition of our weekly column! There wasn't much going on this week; most notably Gabor started adding villages and towns to the outdoor world and did some save/load tweaking. I didn't have much time too but thought a bit about how to market the game so we attract more contributors - the next release will have scrolling end credits of two and a half minutes, and we have to fill that time span with enough names and acknowledgements ;-) Expect a thread showcasing the project on the Freegamedev forum as soon as development has gained more speed again.

Of course you are invited to hang out on #scourge at freenode and share your thoughts.

That said, stay tuned and until next week!