Hi there,

it's time for another status update as the working progress on OpenAnno is going on straight forward.

Bigger graphics

We started increasing all images to the double size and the buildings are finished yet. Also a new tileset, optimized for the bigger grid and with a much finer look is in development. Ships, trails and units need development work too. Take a look at the new graphics at the SVN-Version.

Free trader

The Free Trading Guild has approved a contract with OpenAnno. From now on they will sail our worlds and supply your settlements with goods. If you trade well and fair, your settlements will raise up far beyond your greatest thoughts.

Redesign of the Build menu

Kaschte started working on a redesign of a simple pre-beta build menu wich will give you more overview and no placeholders for all the buildings and elements anymore.

Overworked Lumberjack

If you build a Lumberjack there will now be build different types of trees in his working area. These trees will be positioned randomly.

Speech and co

For the first time ever in OpenAnno we got event based speech output. So if you found a new settlement you will get the appropiate notification via a speech snippet. Also Nihathrael checked in a patch, which implements the first ambient sheep sounds for our herder. Further sounds of birds, church bells, the ocean foaming on the beach and so on will be implemented soon.

Localization

Christoph started basic work on Gettext support. For those of us that don't understand this tech stuff: It means if his work will be going on successfully we will soon be able to translate OpenAnno to various languages.