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"Failure counts as done" -- The Done Manifesto

It's been a few years since I checked this site, and I notice the top news story still implies the project has some hope. Sorry, no. It's done. We did what we did.

Some cool stuff happened as a result of this project. Some of the ideas and three of the core team (Terry Hancock, Rosalyn Hunter, and Daniel Fu) are involved in a new (and very much alive) project called "Lunatics" ( http://lunatics.tv ), which creating an animated web series about space advocacy and space settlement set on the Moon (all under a CC By-SA 3.0 "Attribution-ShareAlike" free license).... read more

Well, this project seriously needs some love, but the good news is, I've found some time to give it some.

I've fixed virtual broken hosting on our Narya Net site that provides the more dynamic aspects of the home page.

There has also been some behind-the-scenes work on the project materials. Terry is learning Blender so we can create our own low-poly 3D character models (after much consideration we decided that full 2D animation was unlikely to happen, so we're going to be using a GL library to provide walk mode in Universe -- but that's old news).... read more

I just checked into the CVS a new module "universe" which is to become the game engine framework as described in http://light-princess.sf.net/Universe .

Currently, this is just a set of functional unit tests (that is to say, they are "functional tests" of modules). There is obviously a lot left to do.

However, the tests are not bad as a "keyboard banger" game, as one of our youngest testers has determined.... read more

Well, David Tweet responding very quickly to that challenge! There is now a new version of the opening animatic with music scored for it by David. I also
fixed a couple of things in the player, so the sound is a bit better.

Wow! We've finally released something. Not much, but it's a start.

The new file is a very early version of an animatic for the opening sequence of the game (an animatic is a kind of "moving storyboard", it doesn't represent the final animation quality, but indicates what is to be done).

This represents two milestones for me -- one, I'm able to use pygame to manipulate multimedia files, and two, we have a better idea of how the intro will look, and especially the timing of it.... read more

Due to improvements in the quantity and quality of game engines, the continuing need for good Open Source games, and the birth of my daughter, we have officially reopened this game project.

I would like to make a call for all people who are interested in adventure game development to join our project, and help us to actually finish it this time.

We would also ask all former members to come back and tell us how you are doing.... read more

Well, we slipped a month on the website, but we've got several new people on board and there is now code being written on AutoManga (the animation engine for Light Princess). PUB (the game logic engine) now has its website up to date, and we are working on it as well. There is now a French language side to the Light Princess website, although we're still working on translations.

The game design concept is firming up, and we have the pose references for designing the full-body character modelsheets.... read more

We have decided on an engine design for "The Light Princess," and are now looking for Python developers to assist us in designing the finer details of the specification and implementing the design in Python. Please see http://light-princess.sourceforge.net/Developer/lp.automanga.html for information about the engine, and contact Terry Hancock mailto:hancock@earthlink.net if you are interested.

We now have the first design concepts for the characters on the Gallery page: http://light-princess.sourceforge.net/lp.gallery.html , along with the earlier set sketches. We are just beginning to work on character designs, and this page will grow in the process.

The mailing list is up! Please join us at http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/light-princess-main (or follow the mailing lists link on the summary page).