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There is a minor update available to the BETA. Changes:

* The background image was too large (bytes). Reduced by more than 90%.
* AI Game play no longer affects scores
* Game board now has a link back to the main menu

A big milestone today - our first BETA version is ready. For now only the source is available as a NetBeans Project.

All the basics are working relatively well:

1) User registration
2) Starting a new game against another human player
3) Playing against the AI player
4) Viewing the various score pages
5) Online help

Thanks for all the people that downloaded the software up to now. At least you have a working piece of software now :-)

The installation PDF document is now available - just have a look in the Files section.

A bug fix release. AI engine still not integrated, but human vs human player works very nicely now.

WOW !!!

For the first time you can actually play a game against another human player.

There are still some minor bugs and the AI engine still needs to be integrated but all in all we are very happy with the progress.

After we sort out all the loose ends in the next couple of days, we will then also complete and publish documentation - sorry for those who was looking for that until now :-)

This release is slightly delayed as a lot of trial and error development releases were omitted until we could find the right technologies for our purpose. A working game is now within reach - our deadline is less than 2 weeks away, so the pressure is on :-)

Basically the first release with the bulk of refactoring done. Also introduced JNDI DB Pooling. Nothing else has really changed.

Although progress seems slow, we have actually learned and achieved a lot. We will now start to concentrate on the rest of the game engine.

For those interested in how we did the DB pooling, check out the following from the SVN repository: https://modobo.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/modobo/trunk/dbpoolingTest01 ... read more

Hi - you will noticed that the heading changed some what - hope it will now make more sense.

This is a relatively small release. Added a new feature by which you can load previous games still in progress. The game(s) are not playable yet, but we are getting there slowly but surely.

Cheers all!

New features:

* You can now select some game parameters when setting up a new game
* The database was also changed slightly to accommodate additional fields

Bug fixes:

* The game board drawing method had a serious logic flaw and that is now sorted out
* Several other minor big fixes.

As alway - enjoy!

Finally a game board is produced :-)

Next stop - start with some basic movements. Lot's of JavaScript dev coming up. Going to be painful - all new stuff for us...

Time flies! Well, here is another smallish release. We made sure that everything calls each other as it should. Also fixed and updated the javadoc entries in the code.

Still lot's of work left, but that's life :-)

Starting to look like something is actually happening now :-) After log on you can kinda navigate to the "game" page (which doesn't exist yet BTW). The session management also now works. When the session expires you can go back to the log on page.

Basic session management now works.

Fixed a minor issue with the language selection. The rest of the work can now continue. DB file has also been updated.

This is a proof of concept release to get the basic cookie encryption routines working.

Next up should be a working cookie processing system.

Watch this space :-)

So finally there is some code available. Sorry, but it's still us trying to figure out how this Java stuff works, so there is not a lot of useful stuff yet.

The release is also not really intended to be installed on other people's system yet, so there is no install documentation or supporting documentation yet.

Hopefully that will change in a couple of days.

If you do have the courage to check it out, please provide feedback :-)... read more