Vitare Blog

It’s the weekend, so to give your weekend a kick start, we thought we’d share some music I composed for Vitare. This was originally just for Facebook/Twitter/Newsletter fans/followers/subscribers. We thought we’d finally post it!

Please feel free to leave your opinion below, and tell us what it could be used for.

Hello everyone, I’ve been up until the crack of dawn (as I write this it’s 12:53am GMT) improving Vitare Blueprints for you all.

Inspired by another website, I have re-designed the main page and it is a lot more easier to navigate. Please let us know what you think of the update, and be sure to register a Blueprints account and contribute your ideas!

The new Blueprints homepage now features new links, colours and information. You can also stay up to date with this blog on there with the RSS feature. We will be updating the homepage, so comment letting us know what Blueprint is missing.

Note: The new sidebars links on the homepage (Contribute) are not all valid. They will be added over the weekend.

I’d also like to thank you for your replies so far to the currency voting, be sure to keep giving us your ideas!

Thanks,
Daniel

It’s Wednesday, so to update the blog today I have checked our videos and thought id post our Blueprints Developer Walkthrough, narrated by Tom, which was originally released for our Twitter and Facebook fans/followers.

Let us know what you think, and should we make more of these for something else?

Note (27th June 2010): This video is now outdated. Vitare may re-create this video for the new Blueprints.

Cheers,
Daniel

Hello everyone welcome to weekly update number 1 from me, Matt!

Firstly just a brief description of what these updates will contain; in these updates i will write about what’s going on behind the scenes in the Vitare development and maybe even a few screenshots! These updates will also help me get some feedback on what you think about the client so far and the features that i have implemented, so without further ado, lets get into this weeks update!

A lot has been done on the client over the past few weeks, however we have decided to once again go back to our original XNA powered client, and scrap our web-based client, this is because of two reasons: both speed and simplicity. Although the web client was extremely fast, it did not handle well once many thousands of objects were on screen, a simple requirement for a game engine. However do not panic! as we are still using the original game engine so development has not been affected.

Another new feature of the client is our world system which allows us to split the Vitare world through multiple servers that has a massive speed benefit as well as providing the fastest game experience, the transitions between world servers is seamless, and you will not even notice that you have been moved server.

Custom content has also been started, which is a huge feature in Vitare and we want the best possible way to manage and provide custom content, currently AND in-game item can be either edited or fully recreated, so for example you could design your own fridge in a modelling program such as Google sketch-up, 3ds max or Maya and import it directly into Vitare.

That’s it for this weeks update, next week i will be delivering even more juicy news about the client and server!

Many regards,

Matt – Lead developer.

Some of you may be expecting our weekly update from Matt, unfortunately this has been delayed until next week because we are currently sorting other issues.

Thanks for understanding

Cheers,
Daniel

Happy Tuesday everyone, I have updated the blog today. The first thing you will notice is to the right of this (the sidebar) is that we added more visible links to other things to do with Vitare, such as the forums and blueprints. We have also moved the search box higher up the sidebar.

I also updated the comments, no longer do they have to be moderated and we have added an anti-spam system to help reduce spam comments.

Finally, I have changed the search system, if we have nothing related to your search, you will get an entertaining message – or so I think it is! Try searching something of pure randomness and see what it says.

Cheers,
Daniel