Hi folks!

You may have noticed we've been having a fair amount of downtime recently.  OGA is outgrowing our current server, and we're seeking someone to host us.  In exchange, we'll put up a 220x220 ad for you.  We're currently pulling an average of ~2000 unique visitors per day, with ~14,000 impressions daily.  At any rate, here are the minimum specs we would need:

• Dedicated server.
• Quad core, 64 bit CPU
• 4 gigs of ram (prefer 8, but negotiable)
• 500GB hard drive space
• 1+ TB monthly transfer
• 100 megabit connection
• Root access
• 64-bit CentOS, RedHat, or Fedora
• Autonomy (that is, apart from posting your image and ensuring that everything is legal, I remain in control of OGA)

- OR -

• 2 units of rack space
• 100 megabit connection
• 1+ TB monthly transfer

- OR -

• $120/month to cover the cost of a co-located server with these specs

Please note that our requirements, particularly bandwidth and hard drive space, will likely increase with time (although the above requirements leave us with a safety factor of 4).  If you or your organization would be willing to provide hosting space, please contact me either via the site contact form or IRC.

Thanks for your interest!

Bart K.

Clint Bellanger has just release version 0.13 of his isometric fantasy action RPG, Flare!

From his blog entry:

Flare now supports quests! This release marks a major leap forward for the story-telling capability of the engine. NPC questgivers can send players on quests and give rewards on completion. Quests can also involve finding items, killing bosses, or exploring a map area.

Hop over to the Flare homepage and grab it while it's hot! :)

Hey folks!

I've got the art wishlist for Tempest here.  If you feel like getting started, feel free to do so.  If not, we'll see you on the 30th! :)

http://www.tempestintheaether.org/forums/index.php/topic,506.0.html

Bart

P.S.  Please reply to this post if you're going to start working on something, so effort isn't duplicated.

Being the audio guy and all, I dont want to be a moocher too much and not have something that will contribute to the group to help out besides the audio. So I decided to dedicate majority of my mumble server to hold enough people to allow many members of OGA to join. If you want you can join whenever you want (idling is encouraged). I am in there 24/7 and I am always there to talk when not at school or work. Mumble is open source so if anyone wants to make a "OGA" skin for us to use that is awesome. Mumble is also capable of sending snapshots so you dont have to upload to a random website or dropbox.

to download 1.2.3 OSX or Windows stable (both with work) go here

http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

if you need help installing or want to know how to do for linux go here

http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Installing_Mumble

if you are on linux and are having any codec errors, these forums post might help you out

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672092

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=258091

If you want to download my "mumblex" skin I have made the link is here

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18779932/mumble/Mumblex.zip

all you have to do is extract the folder somewhere on your computer and direct the skin browser in Configure>settings>user interface to the qss file inside the folder. (Restart mumble when applied)
Here is a screen shot of the skin in use
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18779932/a/234B.png

The information to the server is 66.150.214.6 port number 8070
The server name is whatever you want to name it.

To join the OGA channel. On the top left go to server and click access tokens and add the token "oga1" This will be a permanent password that will save to your name so you can join in and out of the OGA channel. :)

If you are having audio trouble or cannot connect you can message me in the opengameart Mirc. Thanks :)
Note: you do not have to have a mic to join. There is typing capabilities along with TTS this is just another convenient way to communicate people about projects, especially for later on in the project when things get more hectic. If you need a channel added to play video games amongst your friends or a permanent channel for your project just let me know I will be happy to help out.