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= History of Arianne =
Arianne is a project with a huge story behind it.
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== The begining ==
So on July 27, 1999 someone posted what they would have like to have seen in such a game:
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The coding of the game has begun. Project Arianne has just started.
Visit the page <nowiki>http://members.xoom.com/arianne_rpg/</nowiki> .
The page is in Spanish if enough people ask for it i will post an
alternative version in English.
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What is Arianne?
Arianne is an RPG
* Infinite World
* Online gameplay
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The first webpage of this new era featured a much more interesting webpage
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And the very first version of Arianne: a 2D Client.
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During that year, Arianne evolved anarchily and fast to a small working offline game where the player was able to move around a piece of terrain of around the size of 3 screens. The great achievement at this stage was the portability, as the game was runable on Windows, Linux and BeOS thanks to SDL which at that period an awesome 0.10 version
In the year 2000, Arianne reached version 0.3.0 and that was the first version to feature a real client-server framework. Everything was pretty hardcoded and was extremly difficult to either add new features or fix existing ones, however the framework was kept that way up to version 0.3.9
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Also a BeOS version was released and hence Arianne was one of the first BeOS open source games.
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Around this time the website was rebuilt using Midgard, a strange content management system, but the result was a really clear and nice website.
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The real
This was one of the greatest things about the Arianne project; we always knew we could do better. Hence we started to code it again from scratch, which unfortunately halted the project for around 6 months during which
The project
The whole Arianne project was
Miguel successfully managed to coordinate about 30 people and to make a standard image of the project, thus everything looked like part of a common project... of Arianne.
2001 was the year of Arianne. Many new and interesting people joined the project. However, unfortunately a new type of contributor appeared: the camper. These
The first version of the alpha 1 releases where released under the name Pandora.
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This version featured a basic server-client framework, that was easy to debug and expand, and that would create a base for the next project steps. This year also featured two more releases of tech previews of Galadriel which was the 1.2 version of Arianne. We started to add features such as a database backend, and a secure login procedure
In the year 2002 Arianne released a major version, named Galadriel, that added a python RP system, a database backend for accounts, a XML storage for the world and a small 2D client using Kyra, a sprite engine for SDL.
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The website was created again, this time using PHPNuke. (trust me, you don't want to run PHPNuke!). Olivier Milla and Djagg worked really hard on the website to make it unique and different, and they did a real good job.
''Image of website in 2002'' (Anyone has it?)
The progress on the project was awesome eventhough some of the core developers dropped out. Many great contributors joined of whom I can point out Skyflash and Brian Rowe. The project was number 1 on Sourceforge for around 1 month during July, 2002. That means very hard work.
But then problem arose. The code was not as clean and nice as Miguel though it should be, and he suggested a re-code of the project. However some developers disagreed. This coupled with the fact that Miguel seemed to be the only truly active worker, (he was writting the code, the web pages, doing the PR, managing the project and just about everything else!) led to the inevitable result of a burn out and the project was declared dead around Sep, 24.
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Arianne is dead.
This project is really exhausted and IMO it can"t continue anymore
on the actualy structure. There are 27 developers on Sourceforge
and only steve has been working lately with PHP of developers site
and Skyflash with changing the sites content.
So 24 of those 27 persons are doing NOTHING.
And well, things are even worse if you take a look to the developers site.
There are several people joined... around 20, I have dedicated several
hours of my personal time to create tasks and fill them with good
None except again Steve and Skyflash has filled a single task.%%%▼
reply... Only steve has used it.
None of the GFX people has joined the site.
Well, and about mailing lists... more of the same... I have do a CALL
for people to know what everyone is doing here... and the reply has been
nothing: None has had time to write a few lines explaining what they are doing.
Project code needs a total clearing... I am writting test cases for
Arianne and it has found to be really instable on the Connection and
Thread related things, so the only way to continue is to clear it or recode it.
If someone offers to take the leadership of Arianne I will transfer him
all the keycodes and all the rights over the code that I have written,
so that he can continue Arianne as s/he thinks it is better, even
changing the license.
If none offers to take it, I will meditate about either shutting down it,
or clearing ALL and start again from the begin of the begin in a new way
no developers, no website, no teams, no tasks, no contributions, no ideas.
One of the biggest errors of Arianne has been to be too open, we have
accepted on the team people that is not really to take the task, we have
accepted tons of ideas that are really impossible to be done, I have failed
to motivate and coordinate this group of people into working on it. Also I
have written a huge ammount of documetation, several of you will say that
docs are a shit ( like Uli did ) but again, none has written a better one,
what Uli wrote was only a email long documentation in a very technical
language that hardly can help a newbie to understand it. I have created,
used and recommended sourceforge trackers but little people has really used it.
I have tried to do an schedule of the project but people has not contributed
a single line to inform me of what they are doing.
You don
Personally, I still have the same motivation to create a MMOG as before
starting to work on Arianne, so I will for sure retry it, either on Arianne
or by my own with the experience that I have get on Ariane.
Anyway, I really want to thank you all the 3 years of Arianne, I have meet
real good friends, I have had great times and I have felt the proud of
being an open source developer, I also have felt the sadness of getting
only bad words of what you do, from inside and outside, I have also
understand that people always talk more than they can do. Anyway, Thanks to all.
Regards,
Miguel
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Now that I re-read the letter, I see that I was really burnt out! :-D
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After that Skyflash took the leadership and using the base work of both Euan's period and the previous years he started to work on a new version that featured a 3D client using plib.
In the year 2003, the project started to move again and without dropping the old code Skyflash managed to fix bugs and add new features, as a 3D client that allowed players to move, fight and cast magic. This version of Arianne featured a Lua scripting engine that made everything very interesting. This version was called Naxos thus starting a new version naming scheme.
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The progress of the project was totally in Skyflash's hands, and he did a great job, but he had to move back to his home on Sep, 2003 and he requested someone to take over the project for at least 6 months to a year.
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Since I had Marauroa in a stable status, and I was really amazed of how stable Java was, I suggested to use Marauroa as Arianne's server. And as there was no better idea, it was integrated.
In 2004, Marauroa joined Arianne as a single project. We redefined Arianne's goals so that now Arianne is a framework to create online multiplayer games, and Marauroa is the content management system of Arianne framework. Marauroa now features a fully scriptable RP engine using Python.
Arianne was rewritten, but now only as a client side application able to connect to a Marauroa server. Arianne was simplified so it was extremely easy to write new games, and Python binding was added so that development of games in Python was made possible.
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''Image of Gladiators in 2004''
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''Image of mapacman in 2004''
Arianne heads now to begin a great framework for developing games. At the time of writting there are three games using the system in its alpha stage.
On 2004 Sep, 8 Arianne
== Year 2005 ==
In 2005, Marauroa reached the version 1.0 that implemented multizones and content streaming, making Arianne a solid and stable platform for MOG development platform.
We developed a new game called Stendhal, that was similar to in concept to [http://worldforge.org Worldforge]'s Acorn but using old SNES like graphics.<br>
Stendhal pushed Arianne engine exigencies to a new level of quality.
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<small>''<b>Figure</b>: Example of stendhal in 2005''</small>
== Year 2006 ==
Marauroa was refactored to achieve more abstraction and was added a new persistence layer, making it a pro choosal for developing small online games.
[[Stendhal]] kept evolving and featured a big play area with thousands of creatures interacting with players.
== Year 2007 ==
[[Image:Stendhal074.png|Stendhal]]
Marauroa was refactored to meet the requirements of an online roleplaying game like Stendhal better.
== Year 2009 ==
Marauroa now supports multi threaded database access using [[High Level Database Access|Data Access Objects]] and can now dynamically instantiate and destroy copies of zones to allow instantiated dungeons.
== Year 2010 ==
Development of Stendhal is going forward quickly. There is now a NPCs for trading between players and the sound system was completely rewritten, allowing much finer control and background music.
See the [[Review Of 2010]].
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