= Orxonox - the hottest 3D action shooter ever to exist =
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= Orxonox in Blitz -- April 20th, 2010 =
[wiki:FabianLandau X3n] wrote an article for the [http://www.blitz.ethz.ch Blitz], the student magazine of the electrical and mechanical engineers at ETH Zürich. The article with the title "Pizza und Spiele" (allusion to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brot_und_Spiele "Brot und Spiele"]) is written in German and is about Orxonox in general and the PPS course we offer for students of out department at the ETH. Pizzas and Coke are very important for our nightly coding sessions and we are grateful to the [http://www.amiv.ethz.ch AMIV] for paying our bills. X3n explains what Orxonox is, how it was founded and how the PPS course came about. The article concludes with an invitation to the next presentation where the students of the PPS will present their projects.
Grab your copy of the Blitz during the following two weeks at the ETH or read the [http://www.blitz.ethz.ch/pdf/fs10/blitz09_fs10.pdf online version].
= PPS in FS10 announced -- February 2010 =
In light of the coming spring semester, the Orxonox team has appointed a couple of Orxonox maintainers as PPS leaders to be able to offer another PPS for the students of the 2nd and 4th semester of the D-ITET. We encourage students of the D-ITET to check out the [wiki:PPS_main PPS site] and [wiki:download the game] (or at least the [wiki:screenshots]). We are also always happy to answer any unanswered questions you may have about the PPS in specific or in general. Please [wiki:about#Contact contact us].
[[br]]We are looking forward to welcome '''you''' in our PPS and we're hoping to have a fun time developing Orxonox together.
= Major Improvements in Network Code =
Orxonox should be fun and what's more fun than playing with your friends? That's why we always had a strong multiplayer mode in focus. With recent major improvements in our network code we moved closer to this goal. The network data load of one pass has been reduced by nearly 94% to 4.6KB in an empty level with 50 bots. The time to prepare and compress the data has been reduced to nearly a fifth of the previous time consumption.
This allows us to better synchronize large levels and even when a lot is happening in the scene you will experience less lags in multiplayer mode.
Additional to those immediate improvements the structure of the network code has been improved. In prospect of future multithreading, network tasks are now better separated and could be processed in parallel.
= Developers Finish Tag 0.0.4 -- '' January 2010 '' =
With the new year the developers of Orxonox reached a new milestone (we call it tag) in our development. Tag 0.0.4 includes all the new features from autumn 2009!
* Our GUI is now much more elaborate and you are finally able to configure things like graphics and sound settings in the options menu.
* The steering of the space ships is improved and more intuitive.
* The weapons arsenal has been stocked up with steerable rockets.
* The overall sound effect and music has been expanded and improved, so it is now XML-loadable, event-driven and 3D sound is supported as well.
* Last but not least, we have more space ships for the human race and music tracks for better atmosphere.
Overall these changes enhance the game experience a lot and we look forward to implement more features in the near future.
= Orxonox Convention XI =
We're proud to announce the 11th Orxonox Convention. It will take place on Dec 16th at 13:15 in the ETZ G91. Please feel free to come by and have a look at the most recent developments and achievements.
You can find the flyer [http://svn.orxonox.net/webdev/conventions/11/posterHS09.png here].
= Somebody set us up the bomb! -- '' July 2009 '' =
Due to a software upgrade all style sheet information got lost somewhere on the server. We are eager to fix the page as quickly as possible. Until then you will have to bear with the standard design of TRAC.
Meanwhile you can meet us in the IRC channel over the new [http://irc.orxonox.net/?join=orxonox web interface] we set up. So you do not need a client to join the channel.
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'''Orxonox is a computer game''' - Orxonox is a spacecraft shooter that plays in the post-apocalyptic world of our future. Humanity struggles to survive under the threat of wars, economic and ecological disasters. A lot of people search for their luck in the vast space of the solar system. But the human race faces extinction when they realize they are not alone in the galaxy. The Noxons, an evil alien species, believes the human race must be destroyed to free themselves from their cruel god Nox.
'''Orxonox is an open source project''' - We started the project in May 2004 as a two-man team and have written large parts of our engine by ourselves. As the open source community provides many excellent libraries, we try to incorporate the best suited libraries and focus on the game mechanics. That's why in 2007 we decided to exchange our own graphics engine with the open source engine [http://www.ogre3d.org Ogre]. Find out [wiki:about more about us].
'''Orxonox is a community''' - For us the community is very important and thus the multi player mode deserves special focus. We work together with the community to develop new game modes. Play with your friends at a LAN party or over the Internet. Our game modes support up to about 16 players and multiple teams. Meet [wiki:credits the team].
Become a a part of Orxonox and help the development team to create new features (like a first person shooter), levels and content. Write a post in [http://forum.orxonox.net/ our forum] to tell us about your ideas or read [wiki:Contribute this site] to find out about our ideas. [wiki:about#Contact Contact us!]
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'''Orxonox is a PPS''' - Orxonox is partly developed by students of the [http://www.ethz.ch ETH Zürich]. We offer a PPS course for students in the first and second year of their studies at the [http://www.ee.ethz.ch D-ITET]. If you are interested in our teaching or if you're a student studying at the D-ITET, we will be glad to give you more information on the [wiki:PPS_main PPS site].
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'''Orxonox is buggy?''' - Please submit your bug reports [http://forum.orxonox.net/viewforum.php?f=6 here] (registration necessary).
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'''Orxonox is free! ''' - You can get Orxonox for [wiki:License free]. Check out the [wiki:download download page] for further details.
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