(03-11-2011, 08:56 AM)GrimFinger Wrote: Here are a few other far Horizons links that I managed to track down.
Indeed.. these are recent links, all updated within the past couple years. It looks like at least two groups of people have recently tried to bring Far Horizons back, yet nothing seems to have come of it.
One of my goals is to keep all all news and development public, so if I do let it lapse (lets hope not!) others can easily pick up where I left off, instead of starting over.
By "popular" I was referring to the number of hits I saw in old usenet postings. Also the game we have with us today alleges to be the 7th edition, so it must have had some sort of following to progress that far. It probably wasn't as popular as many other PBMs you old timers might be familiar with ;-) I sure am not in a position to make that judgment.
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Project Updates
After several days of putting the site together and converting the game manual from a .txt to a .pdf, I've finally banged out some code.
1. The game engine can now produce galaxy maps in an XML format.
2. The beginnings of a turn viewer are progressing.
Right now the turn viewer is a shell that loads the XML galaxy file produced by the engine and displays the map in 2 dimensions. See screenshot of map viewer. It's not particularly pretty yet, but that will come. Grimfinger is right, a GUI doesn't add anything to a piece of software if it is ugly and unusable. What you see here is merely a proof of concept.