GPU Generation Woes. A setback.

As Matthew said before, there’s been some low-level development on the design front of the game and some web stuff, but no progress on the programming front. Pretty much everything was mid-implementation when Ben stopped working on it, no one else touched the code after this. We really don’t have anything we can release, we can’t even do anything with the game in its current state ourselves.

Right now, everyone’s still busy with uni and/or job (I’m trying to get my master’s degree within the next year), so I don’t expect any significant changes over the next months … unless any programmers decide to start coding on SoA again. We don’t like the current situation, but it’s what it is …

I think the scope of the game was definitely manageable assuming any progress is being made at all. Heavy on the programming front, for sure, but I think most of you can remember what our programmers got done during active development – quite impressive if you ask me

Believe me, we want this too. The fact that there are still people sticking around here after all this time just shows how awesome the SoA community is. I wish we had any new content we could show you.

I have in good faith the notion that when the time comes, development will pick up its pace from this crawl.

nos etiam vivere

Not worth repeating what Georg has said in full, however I just wanted to make sure you all knew there's still look-in. I've just finished my university exams for the semester, however with it being my final year work has stepped up crazily. One more semester of physics then I'm (probably / probably not) done with it forever!

Notch is just doing what he has always done: Playing around with code. One of his experiments once turned out to be a very successful game, but when he left Mojang he made pretty clear he's never going to do anything big again. And tbf, he has so much money he doesn't need to do any work ever again https://twitter.com/notch/status/956296045960597504

Ye I dont really think you will see any real progress on the game unless Ben returns to it, then I think we will all slowly return if he does.

^ I wish we could, but there really isn't much that actually works in its current state.

Yeah, we just need to have someone back invested and programming

Yeah,

1) I'm one of the coders that has worked on a large enough portion of the code to be able to keep going on with it.
2) We don't really even have time to put up a video.

We have 2 programmers that is capable to progress the game @Cristian Zaloj and @Benjamin both of which landed great jobs one working on Guild Wars 2 and another currently at Snapchat.

Neither of our programmers went AVOL, they graduated university and landed really good jobs which lead to them working on other things than SoA. We can still contact these people and if a big magic money bag came along to fund the project we could probably restart production, Sure Cristian and Ben could technically work on it in their free time, but they are working full time, so cant really expect them to do that.

But who knows, maybe one day Ben gets tired of designing and building GW2 raids and dungeons, and Cristian tired of Snapchat filters.

Not sure if anyone remembers me, but I personally have the time and would love to continue to work on this. I just need to find a stable source of income in the meantime. (Probably a part-time job or such.) And probably catch up a bit on my C++, although that wouldn't be too much of an issue for me. It'd be really sad to see this project go to waste.