jMonkeyEngine Blog http://jmonkeyengine.com/blog Official blog of the Java Monkey Engine Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:18:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 No GSoC for jME this year http://jmonkeyengine.com/blog/blog/2010/03/19/no-gsoc-for-jme-this-year/ http://jmonkeyengine.com/blog/blog/2010/03/19/no-gsoc-for-jme-this-year/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:18:18 +0000 Erlend Sogge Heggen http://jmonkeyengine.com/blog/?p=223 Dearest jMonkeys, we’re sad to say we did not make it into GSoC this year around. You check out the accepted projects yourself. If you want to be nice you can nod agreeably when we offer that there really weren’t many projects in our category in there,  so maybe we just weren’t what they were looking for in the first place this year.

No worries though, next year our awesomely complete Android features will basically default us in ;)

In other news, the project is still in a major upswing! The 18. we had 1200 people visit the page. We’re closing in on 30 000 visits and 50 000 page views a month. The forum is more active than ever and we’re seeing some really exciting projects popping up for both jME2 and 3 alike. We’ve had ourselves a bit of a set back here, but the project is stronger than ever, and we’ve got big plans.

To all prospective GSoC students: We’re truly sorry we did not make it. We sincerely hope you will still consider getting in touch with us and the community to realize your project regardless of extra funds. See you on the forums?..

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Ruth is a NetBeans documenter by profession. Her high standards and affiliate network makes her a unique asset to the team. Along side general documentation advancements, her presence is sure to have a positive effect on Normen’s GDE project, based on the NetBeans Platform. With a dedicated doc expert on board, the jMonkey Team is certainly shaping up to be quite the broad-spectrum powerhouse.

The ‘Core Team’

Kirill Vainer ‘Momoko_Fan’

Lead Programmer, jME3 Architect
Student at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Erlend Sogge Heggen ‘Sadr‘

Project Manager, Junior Webmaster
Student at Vancouver Film School, Game Design (on-hiatus)

Skye Book ’sbook’

Project Manager, Senior Webmaster
Student at Polytechnic Institute of NYU

Normen Hansen ‘normen’

GDE architect & general integrations
Engineer at a theater in Bremen

Ruth Kusterer ‘Zathras’

Head of wiki, Docs expert
Technical writer in Prague

What kind of talent should we look for next?

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Right now our top priority is nailing down certain essentials before we’re ready to send in our application, which deadline is 13. March. The bulk of these essentials are explained in our newly created roadmap. You might not have seen jMonkeyEngine 3.0’s feature set ‘bulleted’ in full like this before, so give it a peek!

Most important is the ideas list, and we need your help! Please drop by the board and share any feature suggestions you might have! Some additional guidelines are on their way.

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Integration into the main branch is not the only change, however, as the backbone of the physics system has changed as well.  In the past year there have been some pushes to get away from Open Dynamics Engine and move towards the more active jBullet engine.  In the past few months, the jbullet-jme project has picked up steam and has now been ported to jME3 for a much tighter integration than in previous versions of the engine.

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The ‘Core Team’

Kirill Vainer ‘Momoko_Fan’

Lead Programmer, jME3 Architect
Student at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Erlend Sogge Heggen ‘Sadr‘

Project Manager, Junior Webmaster
Student at Vancouver Film School (on-hiatus)

Skye Book ’sbook’

Project Manager, Senior Webmaster
Student at Polytechnic Institute of NYU

Normen Hansen ‘normen’

GDE architect & general integrations
Engineer at a theater in Bremen

We have been in close contact with Normen over the course of three weeks now, getting to know his personality and working habits. Reckon he’ll fit in just fine :)

Normen’s prevalent projects:

jBullet-JME
This jBullet integration coupled with Normen’s overall dedication on the forum is what made him stick out in the first place. This integration will almost certainly find its way into JME3 at a later point, so it’s well worth getting affiliated with.

GDE for JME3
This here is Normen’s pet project, and will probably stay as such for some good weeks ahead. With an influx of novice programmers (e.g. ‘designers’ such as myself) we have seen an increased interest in JME usability. A full featured GDE is just what we need to widen JME’s appeal to all kinds of game designers, without affecting the solid base of technology underneath.

Thanks for listening, and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you think you could be an asset to the JME project.

contact@jmonkeyengine.com

~ Erlend Sogge Heggen

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