Monkey Bubble

Jeff was so kind to add the newsfeed of this website to Planet GNOME News (which is for project-related blogs and news).

So, I'm using this post to finally annouce the official new website for Monkey Bubble. There are still some things to do with this page (reviewing the content copied from the old website - dropping some stuff), but most importantly, we need a hacker (people, that's your chance to enter the Free Software community) with these skills:

• average webdesigner (familiar with XHTML, CSS, etc.) -- no artistic skills necessary
• PHP developer -- you should be able to understand how to build a theme for Drupal

Your job? Provide a theme for Drupal 5.x to look like the old monkey bubble website. You can apply at the corresponding bug report.

Today we've opened the gates of the new website for monkey bubble. I proposed to set up our dedicated domain and quickly set up drupal (was really painless) on my vServer.

So, now that this has happened it's more likely that we'll post something about the happenings in monkey bubble in the future.

Long live the monkey.

Monkey Bubble 0.5.network_branch is an experimental version which try to improve network code.

Monkey Bubble 0.4.0 is the long-awaited new release of the Bust'a'Move clone for Gnome. It is packed with several new features and makes even more fun.

It's been a month without news and you might not have guessed it, but the monkey is still full of life.

Laurent has been working hard on network code. It's not over yet but it's getting closer to it...
We are proud to present to you our new release, 0.1.9 (TODO: add link). It includes network development code (ie. immature code). It is mainly intended to be presented as a demo-bug-tracking version.

Forgive me my father for I have sinned ;-).

I admit I have been leaving apart the web site news-feeding and the recover from tuxfamily.org work. Here is a list of changes I made today :

Our web hosting provider has been attacked and some machines compromised. We decided to migrate from the former tuxfamily to, here, gna.org . Note that the fact you're reading seems to confirm you know we moved the web site ;-)

Yesterday was the Chinese new year, Monkey year.
We all hope it will be the year for GNU/linux to invade all desktops all around the world, including monkey-bubble.

Proof that monkey-bubble is growing in popularity, even google promotes it (TODO: add link).

The development is at the moment focused on network game, so be sure that by December of this year, we will play monkey-bubble all together, wherever we live (except for numeric deserts ;-).

CVS infos : section screenshots (TODO: add link) presents two new improvements actually available from the CVS : new bubble look and new 2 players background.

... and a release ! 0.1.9 is out featuring:

• new bubbles and new 2 players background (see screenshots - TODO: add link)
• Memory Leak fix in gstreamer (thanks to Adam for his patch)
• stupid pixmap fix (thanks to marco)
• see full Changelog here

As usual, if (when) you find bugs please report to Laurent.