Due in part to demand and our want to keep you informed we are announcing one of our biggest projects that is being worked upon: A browser based replacement for our game client.

Other projects will be announced soon in seperate posts.

So lets get down to it.

In long talks with Tom we came to agreement that Terra needs a new direction, some way to help improve things and hopefully start us on the path to bringing the player base back up to higher levels.
In conjunction with the other projects we have in the works we hope that they will all fit together and give us what the game needs.

At first there was the thought that a team work on the source in lingo (the current language) but this was quickly dismissed due to collaboration problems among other.
We then decided to go for rebuilding the client entirely in Java.

Now for some details on the plans.

One biggest change is that the game will become browser based. This will allow us to appeal to a larger base of players and also updating with new features/bug fixes will become a lot easier rather than having to download a client each time, the game will autoupdate any patches that are released.
Another thing will be that no longer will there be just Tom working on the game. In Java it allows us to have a team that can work on it and create new features at a regular pace.

Tom will not personnaly be Working on the client. He will be overseeing the project and checking that things are going the right way.
The team working on it are as follows:

Dave - Ceebs
Luke - Scorchineon
Cyle - Joeseph

Doesnt seem like a massive team but its a good number and work has already started.

As I said before the Java client will allow us to create new features and implement them into the game at regular intervals. Already a list of new features are being drawn up and sitting there waiting for us to work on it.

In this post I will update every so often on our progress as well as what new features are confirmed as being built.
This is a prime time to go to the suggestion forum and post your ideas in the post that has been set up.

Our current focus is to build a working copy of the client and then build around it.

Also for your eyes only here is a link to see the first draft mockup of how the browser client will look.
This is subject to change.

http://www.terragaming.net/play

We will be happy to answer any questions you may have as well as we can.

Many thanks

THE TERRA TEAM