newWorld News

Ok, we have a new GUI developer in the form of Iggy01. Hopefully that pretty GUI should be functional soon :D

I was debugging newWorld last night and realized just how ugly my debug screen is and it's inspired me to re-advertise for a new GUI developer.
Hopefully, there will decent looking screen to debug through soon.

My current screen however, although ugly is very usefull for finding bugs. I've used it to find some major ones so far and although my game code might need a bit of reqorking, I have much more confidence in it than the last attempt.
Programming games in Java; It a learning experience.

I've rewritten the entire thing from scratch and renamed it as a result from Settlement to newWorld. I've put alot of effort into the functional aspects and very little into the GUI at this stage as it is not important until I get all the underlying functionality working.

I've rewritten most of the code and pretty much redesigned this whole thing from scratch and theres a chance I'll do it once again soon but at the moment I'm putting it together so that, however rough, it'll be availiable for functional debugging.

So the project has went a bit stagnent. Not because I have given up but because I completed my degree and got a job in the past year. A job working with Java and Swing no less so no longer will I need a GUI developer as I am fully versed in the ways of Swing now.
So fear not, I shall hopefully be back to devevloping this soon. Meanwhile, take a look at some of my hobby programs I'll be putting on over the next few weeks.

So the GUI programmer is no longer interested as there are other Colonization projects out there and I have started a redesign. As I have said, I'm doing this to get myself used to putting together more complex projects so I'm working on a better OO design before GUI-ing myself.

Still working on a GUI. Our new GUI developer doesn't have much time to work on the project so I've been working on one myself for now. If I've finished it soon I'll just use that and we can start advertising this projcet and maybe getting loads of debugging done.

So the search for a GUI developer is well underway. I've had a few responses and one or two stand out.
Whover takes this over will be creating a Settlement GUI...in very early debug stage that I will be putting up here and allowing the general public to test. It wont be a game...as yet; but it will be well on the way to being one.

Straight to the point. I don't like the current Col clones that are out there, I love the game and I feel it needs to be recreated.

As well as that, this is an exercise for me in large scale game design, organisation and debugging.

So, at the moment I am largly finished the Settlment, World, Resources, Labour and Unit Objects. Which means its pretty much functional, textually and buggy.
What is needed is a quick and dirty GUI so I can get in depth with my debugging before moving on and then creating a working graphical game.... read more