Shelter 7

We will be wandering around E3 today. Hope to see some interesting things and have some good discussions today.

A quick view of the city walls and some of the new houses. most of these are just place holders but it does show the new house model and the roads.

A few pictures of the new gate and walls.

I just finished integration of the (early) GUI for the inventory system so it now updates automatically when there is a new item added or you click on the toolbar.  I will be adding the detail view soon that will show the item picture and other details.

After some toil, the inventory system is now working so items can be added and listed. Another great update is the quest system. Quests can be listed by zone and its easy to add new quests. These additions are really helping to make the game more interesting.

We were able to integrate CouchDB into our server system. This is nice because it allows us to massively scale the data by easily adding more servers. CouchDB is a document oriented database that allows storage of pieces of data rather than traditional tables. This allows for very nice atomic actions and structured storage of data and quick read times for even millions of records. Because most data in our game is focused around a single player the format is quite complimentary.

It’s nice to report that we are making solid progress.  Check out the screenshot from the latest build below.

You can find our forums for the PBEM at:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/SoulJoes/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SavageSoul/

More about The Savage Soul at http://www.savagesoul.com/

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