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...but will be back in no time.

A tool to handle localization has been added. The sprite editor is being enhanced to support advanced sprite designs. The new release will probably be ready in 2-3 months.

The editors have been enhanced with command line mode, in order to support data building from ant. The build-data.xml has been enhanced with data target. Also in planning is to add several new maps and hopefully the sounds, to enhance the playing experience.

Hope everything will work as planned and the next version will be released in 2-3 weeks.

Two packages are available on this release:
- a jadjar, which contains the jad and jar for Nokia 3510i, ready to be uploaded on the phone
- a dev, which contains the sources, editors executables, build system, data and the rest

Only one level/map is available. Maybe it seems weird to release directly 0.9.9 and only one map, but the goal of the opensource release was rather the engine and the tools. However, for the 1.0.0 I will look to provide some more maps.... read more