The future of Alicia Online: multiplayer development has begun!
Dear players! Today we are happy to make a special announcement: the development of multiplayer functionality has now officially begun! As you all know, a lot of development work has already been done, however, the current version of the Alicia server should be rather considered a temporary prototype, as it does not support multiplayer by design. The temporary version however has very well fulfilled its purpose and helped us test basic game functionality such as shop, horse care and interaction with the bots. Now the time has come to make the next step. For quite a while we have been looking for an efficient server technology, which could both fit our current needs and let us extend the game functionality in the future. We are now glad to inform you that the right solution has been finally found. This week we have conducted the first successful experiment of simple multiplayer interaction, which gives us very high hopes for the future server implementation. Although you are not able to experience it yourself in the game at the moment, we would like to let you know that starting from this week we will be fully focused on mutiplayer development. According to the plan, first, all the current functionality should be fully rewritten using new server technology and all your personal player data should be migrated to the new system. This part of the process is very important and challenging, even though you will not be able to see the immediate results of it in the game until the actual multiplayer comes. So it might require some patience from you. Secondly, the messaging system should be upgraded (which includes chat, guild system, friend list and private messages), as this is the messaging system that gives you ability to search for other players online, add them to your lists and visit their ranches. Please pay attention that currently we do not have a test server (although we might consider creating one in the future), so you might experience temporary service and chat interruptions during the following weeks. On the other hand, those interruptions will inform you that important work is being done and we are all getting a bit closer to our dream of having multiplayer in the game~
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The future of Alicia Online: Models and Animation
Dear Alicians! From the first days of bringing Alicia back, many of you have been asking whether it would be possible to extend the content of the game, to add models from Alicia 2.0 or even to create new ones. There was no certainty about this until now. Transferring models from one version of the game to another appeared to be quite a challenging task. For example, there are a lot new types of horse armor in version 2.0, however, the problem is that in version 1.0 head and saddle parts come in one peace, while in version 2.0 those are two separate parts of horse armor. Therefore those models could not be directly transferred from one version to another. Nevertheless, recently we made a breakthrough in analyzing internal game data. As you can see on the attached video, we managed to successfully extract game models and animation. Moreover, we are now able to modify models and put them back into the game. A lot of work has yet to be done, but even now we can say for sure that extention of the game content will be very much possible, both with transferring character clothes and horse armor from 2.0 and probably even adding our own. P.S. It has been a while since the last update, but you should know that Alicia development continues and we hope that future updates will appear more regularly. |
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