News from the Monkey side
18/03/2008
New website launched...
Today we've opened the gates of the new website for monkey bubble.
Long live the monkey.
29/07/2007
Monkey Bubble 0.5.network_branch
Monkey Bubble 0.5.network_branch is an experimental version which try to improve network code.
01/08/2006
Monkey Bubble 0.4.0
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.
Drastic Changes:
- the sound system got ported to use GStreamer 0.10 (and this is the first release making sound on my computer)
Significant Changes:
- monkey bubble doesn't cause a CPU load of 100% anymore
Technical Changes:
- translations are managed with the gnome-doc-utils now (so translating the documentation is really easy)
- libegg got removed (we're now using the GTK+ 2.10 code for the functions)
- compile with gcc 3.4, 4.0 and 4.1
17/03/2004
take a look closer... it breathes... it's alive !
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. It
includes network development code (ie. immature code). It is mainly
intended to be presented as a demo-bug-tracking version.
About the last release :
- network code (refer to full changelog for more details
- new debian package & new package maintainer Thomas Cataldo
- new translator - contributor, let me introduce to you Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira who brought us the brazilian translation
Please, test our network code and send remarks & bug reports to laurent.belmonte @ aliacom.fr and help the monkey reach perfection (landing estimated in 2053 ;-)
17/03/2004
News from the web site
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 :
- 2 new news
- re-wrote the download page
- add some details about how the network code work, see status page for more details
- add a who are we? section
- modified the left menu : just rest your tired mouse on an item and you'll see
- updated roadmap to say I didn't update it
16/02/2004
EarthQuake strikes MonkeyLand !
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 ;-)
As tuxfamily was also hosting our cvs, we had to move it and it is now available at gnome.org
To end up with hosting troubles, you might have noticed the mailing list is not responding any more. Please consider it is disabled for the moment. We'll let you know as soon as it is up again (but prepare yourself for a re-inscription, as it will probably move from tuxfamily ...)
Laurent is at the moment and for one more week on holidays. He's working hard on the network game, but has no net connection so we cannot show you any new things. Please everybody, join your hands and have a thought for Laurent, lost in the deep huge numeric desert ...
Integration into gnome 2.6 has been refused. We keep on developping anyway !
22/01/2004
Chinese new Year
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.
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 ;-).
17/01/2004
today, two news...
... and a release ! 0.1.9 is out featuring:
- new bubbles and new 2 players background (see screenshots)
- 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.
17/01/2004
It's monday, it's news day ;-)
CVS infos : section screenshots presents two new improvements actually available from the CVS : new bubble look and new 2 players background.
15/01/2004
0.1.8 ... You wanted it, you got it !
After all those nice features added to cvs, it is time to launch into cyberspace the new monkey bubble release, 0.1.8.
New features summary :
- "Music ! And everybody starts to dance !" music breaks in. However the game sample is not repeated.
- Eye-candy : the launcher monkey now moves his arm when aiming or launching bubbles.
- stars and falling bubbles movement improved
- new background in single player mode.
- new dialog to manage shortcuts and more shortcuts manageable.
- A single shortcut to manage Pause/Resume.
- It is now possible to start a new game without stopping the current one.
- new shortcuts for menu entries
- code improvement : objects naming convention changed and Makefiles improvement for better libs management.
Full ChangeLog can be viewed.
As the game sample is not repeated, we'd like to present to you a new contest for the monkey bubble players : you have to reach the higher level you can before the music stops !
As usual, if (when) you find bugs please report to Laurent
12/01/2004
news from the cvs
cvs version now features music ! You get 2 different samples, one played while watching the splash, the other one during game.
However, the sample is not repeated for the moment :-/
06/01/2004
new site and new page
The site now uses xml/xslt and is though much easier to manage. No difference should be seen from the visitor side, but the site's maintainer is much happier now.
A new page, presentation, now presents the game.
02/01/2004
new year, new release 0.1.7 and new web site
maintainer
- red splash screen
- background pictures fixes
- eye candy inside, pop the bubble and watch the stars
- bug fixes
- w3c validating web site
06/10/2003
new release, 0.1.6
- now, you can configure keybindings
- i18n
- new contributor !
- a mailing list, dev@mb.tuxfamily.org