New community site

Just so everyone knows, this site is no longer being worked on. Stargate Universe is now located at sguniverse.soldeus.net, on my own server. It's slower that Sourceforge's server, but we needed to be able to send out activation emails to users. Update your bookmarks! This site will be taken down shortly and the official project site will be pointed to the new community site. The new site is Wiki-based, so everyone can contribute!

We'd like to thank Sourceforge.net for their web hosting, and we'll still be using their other services!

April 13, 2007

I swear we're not dead! :o Yeah i've finally gotten around to updating the site. Here's our status: I won't be able to get a good enough server and connection to host our game for about another year. However, in that time I hope to get the user interface and some models on their way. In the next little while I will set up a CMS on my server, get the forums back up, set up CVS or SVN once I know the difference, and get to work on a single-player demo.

I haven't been sitting on my hands this whole time, I have migrated all my systems to GNU/Linux, and set them up for development work. Now I can actually code, unlike when I started this project when I was on Win2k! I'm doing extensive modelling work, but I suck at textures. If anyone who is good with textures wants to join up with us, you'll be more than welcome :)

With that I take my leave for now. Keep an eye on my website, which will soon have stuff on it :) I will update this again with a link to the development site when I have that ready.

~=Ishmayeck=~

P.S. I'm clustering a couple of machines I have lying around, and while that won't improve my Internet connection, you'll probably notice a jump in my server's speed soon!

November 26: update

Just so everyone knows, the project is not dead. I've neglected to post updates here, but I've been working on it. I've completely converted all my systems to Linux, and I'm messing with the graphics engine. Creating the maps will be trivial, and I should have a graphice demo powered by Crystal Space, as well as screenshots, shortly. Then I get into the harder part, the user interface, game mechanics, and MMO element. Hopefully by that time fellow developer Zekk will rejoin us in the world of the living, and we can get a crude alpha version up.

Also, regarding servers: By the time SGU outgrows our server, I may have a means of getting some really nice ones to replace it. No promises yet, but I'm working on it.
Also, as soon as I figure out what's wrong with the account activation emails, we'll have a brand new community-oriented site. Linking registration of accounts between the site and the forum shouldn't be much of a problem, even with my limited knowledge of MySQL, so if you have registered on the forums you will have an account on the site with the same username, password and email.

August 15: Server move

I've moved the forums onto my own server, because our host suddenly decided to put a "closed" page where my webspace should be. I've finally succeeded in setting up my server, and I've installed a TikiWiki for the community site. It will undergo beta testing and when that's complete, it will become the official site.
The community site can be found here.
The forums are now here.

July 2: Alpha development update

We're about to try something that should speed up the Alpha release. We still don't have an estimated date for it, but this will cut down the coding work. Hopefully by the time we get ready for testing our server will be operational and we will be able to release a very crude Alpha version.

Beginning of July: Completed site

In the past few days I've finished up the site. I apologize for taking so long with the "Please check back soon" notice up. I do still have a couple of pages to expand. You shouldn't have any problems at all, if you do please report them on the forums or contact me at ishmayeck@uasers.sourceforge.net.
This site is temporary. I am, even now, working on a Wiki-based site. Open-source communities seem to thrive more in a community-oriented site. I should have it ready by the time our webserver is completely debugged and set up.
~Ishmayeck~