Jashan's Developer Blog

Progress on the Awards-System

info@ramtiga.com — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:25:54 GMT

I've previously mentioned that I'm currently working on an Awards-System for Traces of Illumination. I don't want to go too much into detail, yet, but keep you posted on what's going on in that area. So here we go ...

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At Last: www.ramtiga.com is SSL-Enabled

info@ramtiga.com — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:49:08 GMT

I've planning to do that right from the start. Now I finally got around to doing it: Get a proper SSL-certificate and install it to the Webserver for www.ramtiga.com.

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OpenID and LiveID enabled

info@ramtiga.com — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:38:45 GMT

In order to make this portal more "connected" I have now enabled OpenID and LiveID. This should allow anyone who wants to use their OpenID or LiveID accounts to directly sign in with www.ramtiga.com. Unfortunately, this is not working perfectly, yet: ...

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Bug when Switching Levels in Multiplayer

info@ramtiga.com — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:49:23 GMT

Traces of Illumination has a pretty unpleasant bug in multiplayer: When you switch levels, the first time you enter the new level, all players spawn in the middle of nowhere ... so ... the level is unplayable. The good news: Everyone equally crashes after a little moment and you get to try it the next time. And then it should work. The even better news: I found it and fixed it. But if no one minds I'll wait with deploying that fix until I have a few more things fixed/improved.

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Traces of Illumination V1.1.0 released

info@ramtiga.com — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:41:01 GMT

As you can see, I've ditched the V1.0alphaX version numbers and moved back to a more conventional version number sequence. That should help keeping things a bit more orderly than they were during the last year ... and a half ... so what's new in this version?

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History of Traces of Illumination so far

info@ramtiga.com — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:37:32 GMT

This clearly is by far the longest time Traces of Illumination had between two releases - so I thought it might be a good time to dive a little into the history so far: The last release was V1.0alpha9b, released 2008-10-12. That's about 1 1/4 years. Until then, I had pretty short release-cycles ...

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Mixing Unity with Light? Looking into Photon

info@ramtiga.com — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:50:08 GMT

More than a year ago I did a series of load-tests to find out how many players my game-server could take. My goal was to be able to host about 150 players per server. Unfortunately, in the last of those load-tests it turned out that around 70 players things got really ...

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Bowling for Unity - My first Unity Workshop

info@ramtiga.com — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:58:37 GMT

What's that? Everyone's crazy with christmas and I write about a Unity workshop? Well, it's been a busy week so blogging had to wait until I had time ... which is ... NOW! ... so, anyways, here we go ...

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Newsletter Subscription now available

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:33:12 GMT

Not everyone wants to immediately register with every site available. On the other hand, sometimes you come across a site you feel might be interesting ... and you create a bookmark ... and forget about it. That's what happens to me frequently. So I thought I'd add a newsletter subscription to www.ramtiga.com.

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RaMtiGA - Webdesign V2.0

info@ramtiga.com — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:32:00 GMT

The old design of this Website has been more and more of a pain for me to look at and work with - so I'm really glad that today I can introduce: RaMtiGA - Webdesign V 2.0, a much more colorful and intense design with a left-side navigation ...

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New Version of Blog-Software installed

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:24:03 GMT

I just installed the new version of the blog-software for the portal system. And ... it's not quite working. When I currently click on any of the blog entries, I'm getting a Firefox error telling me that there's some unending redirection. So, this is both an announcement and a test-posting ;-)

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Soundscape for Level 11: Everything in Nothing

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:56:38 GMT

I'm right now listening to the current state of the soundscape for Level 11 of Traces of Illumination - Everything in Nothing. It's not quite polished, yet ... but I'm happy that aside of some extra-polishing, it's done.

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Forums temporarily disabled

info@ramtiga.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:38:56 GMT

Since there was no real activity on the forums, I've temporarily disabled them. They'll return with the next round of beta-testing of Traces of Illumination.

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Progress of RaMtiGA-Design: Crafting

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:52:59 GMT

This morning, I wrote down some ideas on the crafting system in RaMtiGA.

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Opening the Scope of this Site

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:52:42 GMT

A few days ago, I realized that while my preferred means of communication for www.ramtiga.com is through computer games, I want to broaden the approach by creating a community with a wider perspective. Let me explain ...

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Learning vs. Making Progress

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:14:10 GMT

That's a very interesting experience I'm going through right now: I'm still somewhere in the middle of creating Level 12 - "Welcome to Paradise". You could say that within a few days I made some very nice progress (I'm not working full days every day ... so after a month, I can still say "within a few days" ;-) ).

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Nostalgia - History Completed ;-)

info@ramtiga.com — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:36:16 GMT

Over at the Unity forums, there's currently a thread about "how we got started with programming" and I thought that was a great opportunity to finally finish my "history" section of how I got into game development ...

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Kuul Nuuus ;-)

info@ramtiga.com — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:18:38 GMT

No, I've not suddenly become a 13-year-old incapable of proper spelling. But I'm still a bit tortured by the virus that got me down last week. That was not cool news.

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Unity 2.5 - Coming to Windows

info@ramtiga.com — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:57:28 GMT

UT has now officially announced Unity 2.5, which will also be available for Windows.

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Changing the Site Layout / Navigation

info@ramtiga.com — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:22:59 GMT

I'm currently considering changing the site layout and have a little poll in the forums. Please let me know what you think!

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Networking refactored (technical) :-)

info@ramtiga.com — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:19:32 GMT

It took its time - but now it's done: Instead of using my homegrown "network filter" that basically sent the message to each player individually and directly (in loops for all kinds of groups), Traces of Illumination is now using Unity's built-in networking-scoping ...

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One Year Ago - Ein Jahr wie eine Ewigkeit

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:40:18 GMT

I sometimes like to quote song lyrics, so here you go ... with something that's originally in German ...

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Traces of Illumination mentioned on GameCareerGuide

info@ramtiga.com — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:55:24 GMT

Traces of Illumination was mentioned in Unite 2008: Highlights And Award Winners on GameCareerGuide. This is the second time Traces of Illumination is "in the media"; first it was in the Unity Developer Magazine, Issue 2 (I had written about that before).

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Future Projects - Changes and Advancements

info@ramtiga.com — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:19:09 GMT

I just mentioned "future projects" in my previous posting ... so let me go into a little more detail on that ...

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So what's coming up for Traces of Illumination?

info@ramtiga.com — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:44:52 GMT

It's been a rather inspiring time, and while development didn't advance quite as much as I would have liked it - the last two months were a time of many ideas, things becoming more clear and getting things settled ...

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Experiential Intensive 2008

info@ramtiga.com — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:46:49 GMT

Wait a minute ... no, this is still not about the news of Traces of Illumination. Right: Right after Unite 2008, I was on a 12-day intensive meditation experiential seminar. That was a pretty great experience with many hours of deep meditations every day ...

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Unite 2008 - Unity FTW!!!

info@ramtiga.com — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:50:01 GMT

The Unite 2008 Conference

October 22-24, 2008
Copenhagen, Denmark

... ;-)

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Load-Test Results ... That was ... um, not what I had hoped for

info@ramtiga.com — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:38:31 GMT

Ok, so altogether, I did three major load-testing sessions to which I had invited all people currently registered with the site. The goal of those load-testing sessions was to find out how many simultanuous players my server can currently take ...

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Looong time no Blog

info@ramtiga.com — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:32:56 GMT

Oh well, it's been a really long time since I last posted to my Blog. My sincere apologies to everyone who's been waiting ... and waiting ... and waiting patiently ...

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Instructions for the First Load-Test

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:32:04 GMT

I've just sent out the instructions for the first load-test. Full text below ...

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Invitation to first LoadTest sent out

info@ramtiga.com — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:15:11 GMT

I've just sent out the invitation to the first load-test of Traces of Illumination. For the purpose of this load-test, I've created a special "load-test client" which immediately logs in to the server. The user only needs to join a team, and then wait until a real player hits "play" - the load-test client basically simulates a user with the simple AI that's also used in single player mode. The full invitation:

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New Version, New Name: Traces of Illumination

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:16:37 GMT

I had been going back and forth with this for a couple of weeks now, and during last week, I finally came to a decision: TRaceON is now called Traces of Illumination.

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TraceOn covered by Unity Developer Magazine

info@ramtiga.com — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:26:38 GMT

Whoa, that's quite an amazing feeling: My first game is being covered in an actual magazine. No, not just an online magazine, a real magazine printed on paper!

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Finally: ActiveForums 4.0 is officially released ...

info@ramtiga.com — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:23:32 GMT

... so now, this site officially has a forum.

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The site is growing: 31 Registered Users

info@ramtiga.com — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:19:15 GMT

I've just - once again - counted the number of users that have registered (excluding myselves ;-) ), and we're now at 31.

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Announcement of V1.0alpha on Unity Forums

info@ramtiga.com — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:00:54 GMT

Today, I've announced the new version of TraceON in my Unity Awards 2008 thread on the Unity forums.

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It's done: V1.0alpha "Single-Player Evaluation"

info@ramtiga.com — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:57:17 GMT

I won't write much about this right now, because I'm ready to fall to my bed like a stone, but I just wanted to mention: I have finally finished Tutorial 03.

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When WISDOM replaces The Nuke!

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:53:01 GMT

As you may have noticed, I could be considered somewhat "aware" of names and what they refer to or what they associate you with. That's why I'm using Jashan Chittesh instead of Holger Wagner. It's also the reason why I think I never mentioned the name of the portal system used for this site on this site. And that was for a reason! I'll mention it one time today, but then it will be gone from this site. Because now, at last: WISDOM is here ...

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Interesting News: New TRON-Movie coming up?

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:14:43 GMT

Someone recently mentioned to me that a new TRON-movie was coming up. Today, I found out a little more about that...

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TRaceON Evaluation - V0.999a

info@ramtiga.com — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:13:48 GMT

I've put a new version online: V0.999a - there not that many changes this time, but one very significant change, and that has a name: Tutorials...

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Forums are Online ... for Testing!

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:42:57 GMT

At last, I've got Active Forums 4.0 preview release. This is not for productive use, so I'm considering this "forum beta testing embedded in game beta-testing", but I'm hoping that this might help with one particular issue: Communication...

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First Support Challenges

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:36:52 GMT

As previously reported, I had noticed that a few users didn't complete their registration process. Houston, we got a problem! ...

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Tutorial coming along...

info@ramtiga.com — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:31:08 GMT

I'm about half way through with the tutorial... Since it's already a bit late today, and I still have some rather funky ideas to implement, it might not make it today - but it will make it really soon...

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More News Tidbits of Today

info@ramtiga.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:20:49 GMT

I've ordered service phone numbers for customer support. It may be a little early to think of this, but ...

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UA 2008 Announcement and Trade Registration

info@ramtiga.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:28:08 GMT

Today is a pretty busy day - I'll try to keep the blog up to date. The first two things I'd like to mention is my official UA 2000 announcement and - tadaaa - I just registered my trade.

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TRaceON V0.999 - The Single-Player Evaluation Version

info@ramtiga.com — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:08:23 GMT

After quite a bit of testing and playing around, I've just put a new version of TRaceON online. This one should be considered "The Evaluation Version": ...

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Some current Site-Stats

info@ramtiga.com — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:05:54 GMT

I thought it might be interesting to follow the development of this site - and thus will list a few stats that I have available in this posting...

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First TRaceON Screencast is online!

info@ramtiga.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:56:24 GMT

Ok, this has been waiting for a few days now - but now it's online: My very first screencast ever ...

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Yay! Got my GLS Bank Account and a New Chair...

info@ramtiga.com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:35:09 GMT

Today, two cool things happened: I've got my bank account at the GLS Bank which is the account I'll be using for all money-related issues for all upcoming games, starting with TRaceON - and I've received a chair I had ordered which will hopefully save my back...

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Great News: Unity 2.1 is out!

info@ramtiga.com — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:58:56 GMT

Wonderful news: Unity 2.1 is out! For details, see ...

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