<div dir="ltr">I am currently working on merging the old gameplay with a better codebase. You can check out the progress (that would be a nice little pun if it was SVN instead of hg :) at <a href="http://freehg.org/u/joey/snowballz/">http://freehg.org/u/joey/snowballz/</a><br>
(requires pyglet, rabbyt, PIL, numpy and iniparse to run)<br><br>My goal here is to get the game to a point where it is easy for others to contribute graphics, maps, AIs etc.<br><br>There is already a new map format that supports a custom scripting language designed for snowballz maps. Also a map editor that allows you to place static and dynamic map objects, paths and buildings.<br>
<br>The AI has been immensely improved to the point where it will be easy for others to extend and improve.<br>For now I have removed networking as that takes a lot of time and energy better spent on making it a good single play.<br>
<br>There is still a lot of work to be done before a beta is ready but I intend to start opening it up to contributions soon.<br><br>Until it's ready I created a linux binary of the old code that includes most of it's dependancies (find it at <a href="http://arcticpaint.com">arcticpaint.com</a>). All it requires to be installed and run is, as far as I know, python 2.5 and pygame.<br>
<br>Note that this version I'm working on is unrelated to the "next" version of snowballz which will be in 3D and much different game-play. What I'm working on here is completeing the old gameplay that was in the 0.9.x versions and making it so others can easily extend it.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Joey<br></div>