Hiya Claudia!! First of all your now allowed to work on Thursday so you can come to sunset parties in TSO.
Lets see what can I tell you about Tirnua. They seem to be moving along rather quickly. I saw in another post that you couldnt get in the community center, but I havent had any problems, try again.
From what I've been able to gather so far, Tirnua will be an environmental game. Seeds will be important for growing trees and other plants and some will be rare or unusual. Content will be user created and they expect everyone to be able to use in game tools to create and about 5% to use external tools. I'm sure theres more but I'm caffeine deprived so far today.
Here's the latest blog post that tells what everyone is working on:
Just wanted to keep you in the loop on some of the things we are working on:
We wanted to publish ‘new account creation’ last week but someone (me) forgot to order the SSL certificate that the web site needs, so Sarah will publish it this week. Along with it, I hope we will publish an updated look to the web site. When that key feature is out there, Sarah will be able to work and launch the persona book and then add the initial set of features to it.
Cort is working on enabling multiple rooms in Tirnua, because we need to be able to move from one to another, and we need everyone to have their own place. He is also working on moving our development environment from Flash to Flex which will make us more productive.
Larry is working on making the full body avatar work in the rooms, one red dress is funny but boring. I expect that might take a couple of months, but Larry thinks it will happen faster, he has a few tricks up his sleeves.
Laurent is working on the web services that we are all using to work on our features. As soon as account creation is published, some of those web services will start to be available to world, and they will enable web masters to start building more meaningful web sites about Tirnua.
Margaret is working on all the art requirements we have, between the web sites, the rooms, the persona etc. We also decided to start working on the map of Tirnua, and our preference would be that users help us draw that map. I believe Margaret will publish a blog this week with some art direction regarding the map, but feel free to start submitting ideas on the wiki right now.
Lee is establishing our publishing system, so we can start to do it less manually and with better testing. This was a well establish system in our previous job, but we have to rebuild something similar for Tirnua.
Audrey is licensing content from many 3D art houses. She has already acquired tens of thousands of items for us to use in Tirnua. It is very exciting.
Greg is architecting, organizing and planning the next few months, so that all those pieces are delivered in a meaningful and productive manner.
As mentioned in previous post, for my part, I am working on a face creation/selection tool for you. Here is an example I worked on yesterday: (You are lukcy that I can choose to show you the good looking one, and hide the disasters…)
Please start thinking about the map of our world. There are many free tools out there to work on that subject, and it would be nice if someone would start organizing all of this on the wiki. Would you rather think of it as its own planet or as a extra continent on earth?
Thank you in advance,
Luc
Prolly somoene else will have more details to share with you.