Hi everyone.

I'm Medo42, one of the students who will be working on Hedgewars as part of the Google Summer of Code. Some people might know me as the main programmer of Gang Garrison 2, a game which re-imagines Team Fortress 2 as a game from the DOS era¹. There is also a slim chance that you know me from a place called Germany where I am known as Simeon, a student of computer science just finishing his diploma thesis. It's about quadrocopters.

My task will be to fill in the biggest missing pieces of the Hedgewars Android port: Netplay and scheme editors. This means you will finally be able to make and join online games with players from all other platforms, and to customize the game rules and weapons with all the options you have in the PC version. There will also be some work on the internal plumbing, to make it easier for ports to other platforms to add Netplay as well.

A big thanks to all Hedgewars developers for trusting me with this project, and in particular to Xeli who is taking the time to be my mentor and help me learn the ropes. I'm looking forward to working with you.

¹ You can play it over the internet though, so there is no need to dust off your nullmodem cables.

Hi all,
it's my great pleasure to finally announce the GSoC 2012 participants!

We've had around 70 single proposals and lots of activity in our IRC channel! Our participation in last year GSoC and GCI has granted us five slots!

So without further ado let me introduce the students that will acoompaign us throughout all the summer

• stepan777, mentored by Hedgewars author unc0rr, will create a demo converter tool that will simplify capturing live matches and sharing them with your friends or on Youtube;
• xymeng, mentored by our IRC icon nemo, will restructure most of the sources and prepare a full blown WebGL port to play this game on your browser;
• belphegorr, mentored by our Lua guide mikade, will bring a complete story campaign with training missions to add more flavour to this game and to teach newcomers how to play;
• medo42, mentored by our past GSoC student xeli, will complete the Android port writing the remaining customisations and a working client for online netplay;
• wolfgang, mentored by your source breaker koda, will rewrite the rendering pipeline to GLES2.0 for improved graphics performance on desktop and mobile.

The whole team would like to thank all participants for their time spent with us! It is always hard to select the best proposals from such high quality contributions that were sent in for this year GSoC: we hope that everyone has had a good time during the selection period and that everyone is going to hang around our crazy community!

Now let's send our congratulations to the five selected students and wish them good luck with their work! In the following days blogposts will appear to introduce them to the community and present their work in more detail.

We are in for an exciting summer!
Koda

A quick reminder to any applying student who wishes to participate in Google Summer of Code 2012 with the Hedgewars Project: you can submit your proposal until April 6th, 12:00am pacific time.

We will then take a two week break where we will further discuss and analyse each proposal with all the students. Make sure you use this time to improve your proposal with graphics and to fully join the development community, with your (active) presence in IRC and with patch submissions (optional but highly suggested).

Update: Thanks for all the attending students! We've got 73 applications, 2 more than last year! If you wish to edit your proposal, please contact the assigned mentor for it, only he can grant you editing powers.

The selected proposals will be published on April 23rd!
Good luck to every participant!

Hi everyone,
we've got some great news!
We've been accepted to Google Summer of Code for the second consecutive year! :D

The organisation page is already set up: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/hedgewars
In that page both mentors and students can apply after creating a Google Account.

Please don't forget to visit our GSoC portal at http://www.hedgewars.org/gsoc.html where you can read more about the general rules and about our proposal ideas.
As always for any question visit our IRC channel (#hedgewars on irc.freenode.net) or leave a comment in this blogpost

Good luck to all participating students (as well as mentors!)

Hello!

news on the android front!

Yesterday I've released a new Hedgewars version to the Android Market, this version is feature-wise one of the bigger releases check it out here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.hedgewars.hedgeroid

Together with Koda, we've improved the touch interface. It should be a lot easier to control your hogs and play some games vs the AI. Further more the schemes now work, which resulted the rope working too now (any shoppa players wanna have a go at it? :)) plus a ton of bugs

This is the touch interface in action, be careful the quality is quite low :)

as shown in the video the android frontend needs quite a lot of work for tablets, if you're interested in giving a helping hand please do contact me! :)

Xeli