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UberGames Developers Wiki Posted by TiM on 11-22-2009, 4:28PM  |  Comment!

Okay... this is probably my final contribution to the UberGames site in a little while... I've spent like a year working on this entire site, and I'm at the point where I want to be rid of it and back to working on projects.

Sooo here's my latest experiment... another wiki!

http://www.ubergames.org/devwiki/

This here is the UberGames DevWiki. It's similar to the Public Wiki, but it's pretty different in terms of function.

The point of this Wiki is to give us UberGames developers a place to write design documentation and status updates for any projects we're working on.

Up until this point, I've been writing all of my design documentation in my own threads in a private forum on here.... but I recently came to the realization that method sucks as it's really confusing to keep track of threads as people reply to them and they shuffle around.

So with this wiki, hopefully it's going to be a lot easier to manage documentation than in a forum.

Now for the experimental part of this thing.... the experimental part is that this wiki is semi-public, unlike my design threads.
Since the more stuff we keep private and internal, the more it looks like we're not doing anything, I'd like to try and make as much stuff publicly viewable as possible.

Also, the more stuff we make visible, the more interest we can potentially curry for more people to come along and help out.

By semi-public, I mean there are a few portions of the wiki that aren't available to public view... mainly being project ideas or concepts we've been holding onto, and aren't ready to actually announce yet... either because they might not actually be feasible, or there's not enough info yet.

In any case, we'll see how we go with this thing. As always, let me know if you see anything broken.

Thanks guys!

-TiM

UberGames Public Wiki Posted by TiM on 11-3-2009, 3:50PM  |  9 Comments

Hey guys!

There was a little bit of a discussion of this happening before, but now that I completed a major milestone on it, I figured we should have a dedicated thread to it.

I've been working on this on and off for a few months now. Back-to-back it would have only taken a week to do, but with all of my other stuff, it took this crazy long lol.

The UberGames wiki now has a new skin applied to it. one that brings it in line with the theme of the rest of the site!

So that being said, even though its status hasn't changed, I'd like to point out the UberGames wiki is open and ready for editing.

http://www.ubergames.org/wiki

The next step, and one I haven't thought of at all in a while is what kind of content still needs adding there. Also, there were a few cool templates floating around for the Main Page screen... I'll have to see how well they fit in this skin.

In any case, aside from that, my next plan is duplicate this wiki and turn that copy into a developers' wiki... and then get to work actually documenting all of the backend stuff I know for RPG-X, EF and Q3 there.

Enjoy!

-TiM

Introducing DesktopTweet! Posted by TiM on 7-26-2009, 6:34PM  |  2 Comments

Hey guys!

Sorry it's been a bit of a while since I've been really active on the forums. I've been busy on multiple fronts lately.

The main thing is still working on the CG for this TV episode still, and I dare say it's still going to be a little longer before it's finished.
I've been working with a cool guy called Kelly Meyers for the past month or so. Kelly was one of the main VFX tech guys for season 2 and 3 of Battlestar Galactica, and the shots he's cranking out for this show look niiiice. I'm hoping if I get clearance, I can post some more pictures up here in the forums.

Secondly, I just finished the final hurdle of a small C# utility I've been working on. I started it originally so I could use it as a bit of training for the kind of coding I was doing at work, and now it's finished.

The utility is called DesktopTweet, and as you can guess, it's a utility designed to work with Twitter.
Simply put, DesktopTweet lets you quickly snap pictures of your desktop screen, and then post them on Twitter straight away.
I've been putting a lot of time and effort into getting it finished quickly and now, because I now want to use it to post updates on all of the other projects I'm working on.

Since it's not reeeeeally about games, I decided not to make it under the UberGames mantle, but now since Dom's released NetSwarm here, I'm thinking maybe I could have haha...

In any case, if you use Twitter, please give it a try.

http://www.desktoptweet.net/

From here on, I'm focussing back on working on refining the UberGames site again. At the moment, there's still a lot of stuff I want to do in the backend system... including a few bugs I've picked up on, but hopefully I'll be a bit more active from here on.

Thanks!

-TiM

NetSwarm is now released! Posted by Dom on 6-12-2009, 1:01PM  |  3 Comments

NetSwarm, a network monitoring screen saver and desktop application from UberGames, is now officially available for download through the projects website: http://www.ubergames.org/projects/netswarm/

NetSwarm monitors all network activity which your computer receives and then compiles a logical swarm of the network nodes (machines/devices). This process visually demonstrates how your network communicates within itself and the outside world. NetSwarm can be ran as a monitoring utility (Stand Alone EXE) or as a screen saver.

NetSwarm uses colour coded nodes (circles) to inform you of the type of traffic you have communicating on your network. A green node indicates an internal IP address (including VPN addresses), where as a light blue node indicates a remote address. Yellow nodes represent either a broadcast or multicast address. NetSwarm can be configured through the settings window to ignore external IP addresses.

NetSwarm also changes the colour of the links (lines) between nodes depending on what transport protocol is being utilized between the two nodes. Red links indicate TCP traffic. Green links indicate ICMP traffic and blue links represent UDP traffic. If a mixture of protocols are being utilized NetSwarm will morph the colour of the link to represent the ratio of use for each protocol.

FileFront saved at the last second by FileFront! Posted by TiM on 4-2-2009, 3:57AM  |  13 Comments

Well uh... this is kind of a surprise haha, but thankfully it clears up the confusion we've been having since yesterday.

Apparently, just before Ziff Davis officially shut down the service, the original owners of FileFront swooped in and bought the site back off them!

So what this means is, although Ziff Davis is now totally out of the picture, FileFront will indeed continue and at the moment is in the middle of returning to normal operations.

I'm very happy to hear this. If it had indeed gone down, we would have lost much more than what we could have saved.

http://digg.com/gaming_news/FileFront_Acquired_by_the_Original_Founders

http://welcome.filefront.com

At the same time, I'm also a little sad as it means the time and resources we put into bringing our replacement community site online has been rendered moot. Ah well... I guess there's always next time.

So there you have it guys! Get back to it!

http://ef2.filefront.com

Game on!

-Tim