BlackNova Gaming Network

Some of our old mailing list posts seem to be available (although I thought this was the private list, shrug): http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.games.blacknova.devel

And yes, the IRC channel is still around, still has TMD's bot and settings! irc.freenode.net / #blacknova

There seems to be confusion. This stems from the fact that the GAME ENGINE is being developed while the GAME is trying to be played and supported without a clear difference being understood. Confused? Thought so... That is one way to look at it, but I look at it a little differently. In another thr...

Sounds great!

BTW, anyone else on the forum that wants to re-start a dev team? Together we can get Black Nova fixed and have game servers running again... I love the enthusiasm! https://github.com/thekabal/tki/ is the latest repo work from me, and Xgermz has one at https://github.com/xgermz/xenoberage . My focus...

xgermz, thank you VERY much, honest, for putting your work on GitHub.

Mad respect for the work you are doing! I hope you and your players enjoy it.

(Detailed news ) Currently the news in BNT only displays: when a player has reach 5 planets , 10planets , 50 palanets ect.... and when player has reached 100mil colonists, 500mil colonists, 1bil colonists ect .... however in another fork I loved to play it had much more detailed news. It would show...

Multiple themes was tried and worked very well on another un-named project, however it brought about a massive problem with the GPL, you cant share copyrighted material. Hence Battlestar, starwars, star trek themes, etc etc, you can code them but you cant share the code without opening a minefield....

No offence, but just curious. Why is it no one is able to get xenobes working ( your game, friorlair, even the mighty dudes game) when starkick traders had them up and running for the past 12years or so. Very reasonable question. So first, consider that many of those other sites are choosing to run...

hi i m radas old players of bnt !! before there are few years , in blacknova traders , very very more players play bnt , now no more players , where is all players! Hello, glad to see you still around! Several things, in my opinion. First is the growth (explosion?) of online games that are free to ...

Yeah, we tried to make it cleaner, but due to everyone having different coding standards made it become a mess. Some of the new stuff was cleaner code and had comments, but due to the state of some of the files, especially the lager ones it was becoming too time consuming and would of been quicker ...