ZeroVector

What is ZeroVector?

on 29-04-2008 15:50

Some of you are probably wondering, what the hell is ZeroVector?
What does it have to do with Silent Death Online?
Will it bring about a new golden age of games?

Well, first let me cover what the game is. It is a massively multiplayer top-down space shooter. The client is currently written 100% is java (aside from the Shaders of course :)) using the awesome LWJGL library to pull off the graphics and input requirements not normally achievable in a java environment, and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Currently, there are only two main authors, Me (David Wheeler) and Aurash Mahbod. Contributions have been made in the past by others (Misha, Tom).

The engine has been developed in house and is currently fairly capable of some nice graphical effects, basic physics (not that we need anything special for this game type, Real time networking through a central server with lag compensation, basic GUI functionality, ect.
However, it is far from being as robust as will be required for the final game

What does this game have to do with SDO? Not a whole lot actually. No more than what WoW has to do With EverQuest or Marathon with Doom.
The truth is the game is continuing a genre that has been neglected for far to long, and it pulls from a larger history of gaming classics including Star Control, Escape Velocity, System Shock, and to many other games to name.

The game will not be taking place in the Silent Death universe, and we are in no way affiliated with Iron Crown or Mythic Entertainment.

The game is in development indefinitely, which means that it will be done when it is done. No time frame has been given, but know that it is being worked on, and the more you guys push us the more we will push back

Right now we don't have any calls for more help, as we haven't fully decided what the destiny of the game is. There such a thing as to many cooks in the kitchen when it comes to a game like this, and once the engine is more stable/robust, there will prob be calls for people outside of the programming department.

Feel free to comment or post in the forums if you guys have more questions!

-David out

Last update: 15-05-2008 19:04

Published in : FAQs, Game FAQ

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Written by David

Maintance Complete

Written by David

Monday, 20 April 2009 02:58

All is well in server land now (until we upgrade the front page server next :) ), so feel free to get back to posting on the forum.

We've also put a couple new images like the preview of the new garage below up in this thread as well.

Maintenance

on 17-04-2009 17:14

The forums and game server will be down for routine maintenance this Friday
starting around 6PM PDT through Sunday (April 17th through the 19th). We
will be upgrading the hardware on the server to help reduce future downtime
of the forum and game server.

The front page will remain up.

-Aurash

Last update: 17-04-2009 17:17

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Character Selection

on 30-03-2009 20:52

Although certainly nothing to write home about, I thought I would post up this little screen shot. It essentially shows what we have been up to, which is character selection and creation. Not shown is all the crazy work Aurash and Steve have been doing server side to get this feature working. Massive amounts of DB changes. As I understand it, about 50% of the server code had to be touched to get it going (since we are no longer working off accounts, but characters.) Hats off to them.

Character Screen