The first stable release of Arkanae III (0.1) is available! This release includes the two first chapters of the game, which represent about 20% of the game. However, the bad news for you, English reader, is that it is currently available only in French.

Songwrite 2 0.2.1 is out ! It fixes many bugs of version 0.2. It is also possible to run it on Qtopia, e.g. on a Zaurus ! This version requires EditObj 2 0.2.1.

Here is the change log :

• Qt / Qtopia support (tested on Sharp Zaurus)
• When selecting a note, take the current duration into account in a smarter way
• Allow to hide the edition panel

Bugfixes:

• Fix songref in songbook edition dialog box
• Fix default filename when exporting
• Fix filename filter bug in import / export
• Fix legato in ABC importer
• Fix dot in ABC importer
• Fix playlist analysis in ABC importer
• Fix partial bars in ABC importer
• Fix hammer/pull update when the second note is modified
• Fix zoom when editing a new song
• Fix quarter tripplets
• Fix Texttab importer and exporter (string tuning was messing around, thanks Adrian Quark)
• Fix launching from source directory (thanks Slawek)

Songwrite 2 0.2 is out !

It adds support for flute fingering notations (i.e. small schema showing which holes should be covered in the flute, see the screenshot section) for tin whistle and recorder. It also support 6/8 and jig rhythms and can import file in the ABC format, two useful features for Irish music.

Finally, it also provides a new PDF exporter, which is now independent from Lilypond (Consequently, Lilypond is no longer a requirement for Songwrite 2). Lilypond is no longer used for PDF export, because it has poor support for non-staff notations (like tablature or fingering), and because incompatibilities are frequent between two version of Lilypond.

Songwrite 2 0.2 requires the lastest version of EditObj2 (0.2).

The first version of Balazar III is out !

This version is entirely functional, but includes only a single playable character, a single monster, and not a lot of items, powers and rooms. It is still fun and you can get an idea of the game. The network mode is quite advanced; it is quite powerful and should support a high number of simultaneous players.

The new version of Soya, 0.14, is out. Here is the complete changelog for 0.14:

* January 2008 : Soya3D 0.14rc1 * Allow the centre of mass of a Body to be anywhere in its local coordinate system (thanks Greg Ewing) * Improve tutorial README (thanks Jacques Rebourcier) * Update for Pyrex 0.9.6.2 (thanks Greg Ewing) * Blender => Cal3D can now run with Python 2.3 (thanks Greg Ewing) * New GUI module soya.gui * Bugfixes: * Fix the weird segfaulting bug in terrain (thanks Souvarine) * Fix GL_INVALID_ENUM crash with the OSS ATI DRI driver (thanks Zoltan Dome) * Fix data/worldS and data/blender in the yet-in * Fix speed-1.py tuto * Fog was activated by error on partial camera with no atmosphere * Fix descender computation in font * Fix ODE on terrain (tuto ode-collision-8-terrain.py)

* August 2008 : Soya3D 0.14 * Improved the cell-shading algorithm, by anti-aliasing outlines and disabling normal lighting when cell-shading is used * Bugfixes: * When re-starting a MainLoop, define it as the current MainLoop (aka. soya.MAIN_LOOP)

Cerealizer 0.7 is out!

It now allows to dump() things repeatedly to a stream or file, and then load() things repeatedly out of it.

Many thanks to Peter Eckersley !

A new version of Soya, 0.14rc1, is out. This release includes many bugfixes and has been updated for latest release of Pyrex. It also includes a new GUI module called soya.gui (see the gui-* tutos for demo).

Here is the complete changelog:

* January 2008 : Soya3D 0.14rc1 * Allow the centre of mass of a Body to be anywhere in its local coordinate system (thanks Greg Ewing) * Improve tutorial README (thanks Jacques Rebourcier) * Update for Pyrex 0.9.6.2 (thanks Greg Ewing) * Blender => Cal3D can now run with Python 2.3 (thanks Greg Ewing) * New GUI module soya.gui * Bugfixes: * Fix the weird segfaulting bug in terrain (thanks Souvarine) * Fix GL_INVALID_ENUM crash with the OSS ATI DRI driver (thanks Zoltan Dome) * Fix data/worldS and data/blender in the yet-in * Fix speed-1.py tuto * Fog was activated by error on partial camera with no atmosphere * Fix descender computation in font * Fix ODE on terrain (tuto ode-collision-8-terrain.py)

I'm currently working on a new widget system for Soya.

It will feature advanced widgets such as scroll panes or flying windows, as well as a nice automatic dimensioning system, even better than GTK and Tk ones !

For now, I'm focusing on the widget's logic, and not on their graphical aspect.

The final goal being to add Soya's support to EditObj 2, in order to be able to generate dialog boxes in Soya for editing various game objects. Can be usefull for game editor but also for many complex games (roleplaying games, strategy games,...). I'm precisely thinking about new game projects in that area.

Here are some screenshots using various styles :

Songwrite 2 0.1.2 fixes a few bugs that were remaining in 0.1 and 0.1.1, namely :

• Guitar pro importer was missing
• Fix copy / paste of notes with alterations on staffs
• Fix view name translation
• Fix "AttributeError: 'ObjectPack' object has no attribute 'song'" when selecting notes
• Fix copy-paste between different windows

You can get it there.

Here is a first stable release of Songwrite 2!

Songwrite 2 is a tablature editor for Linux, written in Python with GTK and Cairo. A tablature is a guitar partition ; Songwrite 2 supports many string instruments in addition to traditional staffs.

With Songwrite 2 you can...

• ...edit tablatures (guitar, bass, banjo,...) and staff, and add lyrics to write your own songs !
• ...create your own songbook
• ...play your partitions
• ...print your partitions and your songs
• ...convert automatically staffs to tablatures and tablatures to staffs
• ...export your songs into many formats (PDF, Midi, ASCII tablatures, GNU Lilypond, LaTeX, PostScript,...)
• ...import Guitar Pro 3 / 4 file (experimental)

Songwrite 2 is a complete rewrite of Songwrite 1 with :

• A new interface based on Gtk 2 and Cairo, with anti-aliasing
• A new staff rendering engine, now handling tonality and alteration correctly
• A new plugin system
• A new documentation
• Printing support updated for recent version of Lilypond (2.11.20 and above)