It’s been some time since we’ve posted an update to the site, its not because we haven’t been doing anything. We had hoped to had the new version of the site live by christmas, but in our quest for perfection we still haven’t reached a point where we are willing to share.

In the mean time, go check out one of our newest projects Aztez.

Additionally we have posted the intro video to one of our newer games, Flight of the Kelvins, to Vimeo to show off the outstanding work being done on it; a game play video is sure to follow as well.

We’re working really hard to start growing the company this year, so stay tuned.

During our time between projects, we all went off to do our own things. Some of us worked on movies, others worked on getting in shape, and some of us spent our time working on toolsets to help with our next game, and some spent time on the website (a little bit). One of those tools was an Add-In for the cross-platform MonoDevelop, which brought some of the features and integration points we wanted while developing in it.

We’ve released the Add-In to the public via a custom Add-In repository, so that automatic updating will work with it as well. You can grab the instructions for how to install it from our Wiki.The full source is also available over at GitHub.

We hope that the community will help expand on its current feature set, and make it something for everyone to use.

With the recent release of the RC for Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008, we decided it was time to give it a whirl on an internal development box.

We had a previous CTP (10.0.1300.13) on our target box, and were hoping that we could upgrade that, so there was no hassle. Unfortunately, when we went through the process it initially said that it could, but when it came to selecting data directories it complained of existing data in the data directories. Well duh? I wanted to upgrade!

Since it was a development box, and really there was only one database on there that mattered, a quick backup was in order. Uninstalling our old deployment gave us an insight into some of the changes in this release for customizations. The drill down options on features in the new install is much nicer, allowing for further customization of what gets installed getting rid of all those unwanted extra services that are not needed.

Something to note here, during its ‘checks’ where it looks for possible problems. It gave us a ‘Passed’ for previous CTP installation, prior to the removal of our previous version which failed on upgrade. Interesting little hickup there, that hopefully will get fixed by release.

The actual installation process took less then 5 minutes on the server, however it can be assumed that this is relative to your own hardware specs. I got a few errors related to Visual Studio during the install, probably because it’s not installed on that server (and why would it be?). The errors didn’t seem to effect the install at all, and we we’re back up and running within 5 minutes after the installation (had to reattach the database).

Performance wise, we are seeing a major improvement compared to the old install. Not sure why, but we’ll look into it.