Archive 2007

From Spheriki

12 January

• New year!
• One Hour Game Making Contest is on this Sunday! Make something damnit!
• Sphere Community Game is back in production.

15 January

• The One Hour Game Making Contest is over. Four out of nine games were Sphere titles. Good stuff!

21 January

• Summaries are being added to the Functions page. Hopefully, this should make it more useful to newbies and veterans alike.
• A Demo of Blockman will come out next month. Check the BlockMan page to find out how much progress has been made on it.

26 January

• New tutorials: Starting up Sphere, Configuring Sphere, Talking and text and Warping between maps, from the Sphere CHM.

28 January

• More tutorials: menus, networking, drawing the map, random text, objects, intros, battles.

31 January

• The Functions page has been restructured to promote exploratory doc browsing. More details in the talk page.
• New compo: Lilith's Enticement is a gothic/horror-themed RPG contest running through February. Register now!

06 February

• Functions: Less than 150 pages to go! Over half of the functions and objects have been documented, and we're well on the way to completing the other half.

19 February

• Sphere CG: A Subversion repository has been set up for development of this community effort. Thanks rjt!

26 February

• Games: A playable demo of BlockMan is now available.
• Sphere CG: Instructions for using Subversion with the project are now available. Aimed at newbies!

27 February

• Functions: 200 pages done! That's two-thirds of our work there complete!
• Jobs: A couple more added: SDHawk's games need wiki pages, and so do some of the old sphere.sf.net articles.

21 May

• Sphere:Latest: The "docs" folder was borked in the Sphere Windows binaries ZIP. A new ZIP containing the proper "docs" folder layout can now be downloaded. Extract it over the old one.

07 June

• An interesting discussion over at the forums; what do we want Sphere 2.0 to be? Keep in mind it may be years till it is released, that is... if ever. Discussion: Sphere 2.0

04 July

• SDHawk's Finishing games article is up! See game development from a different perspective and finish your game!

06 July

• sphere.sf.net is back! This is the official site for engine updates, feature requests, bug reports and technical support, so check it out.

24 July

• Check out Legaia's sphere guide for beginners. Legaia's Official Unofficial Sphere Tutorial

05 August

• Kyuu is developing some new Sphere Engine functions. See here for forum topic and also Unofficial Engine Functions.

24 August

• Kamatsu's Class Library has been approved for use in the Community Game.

27 September

• It has been decided not to use Kamatsu's Class Library in the Sphere Community Game.

01 November

• Higher-order programming in JavaScript shows how to take full advantage of functions to make your code shorter and eliminate copy-paste coding.

01 November

• Added syntax highlighting capabilities to the wiki. Surround your code with <source lang="javascript"> </source>.

02 November

• The five-day RPG oh noes dragon!!1 has been released. Fight your way through plains, forests, and mountains to save a princess.

07 November

• Radnen has released his Halloween-themed tile-based game, Freddy Jack in SpookLand.

15 November

• Instructions are now available for compiling Sphere under Ubuntu Linux 7.10.

11 December

• Tutorials from the original sphere.sf.net website have been transferred here and wikified! They are found in the "Sphere/*" series.