Hi everyone!

I am another student selected for working on Hedgewars as part of the Google Summer of Code. My name is Stepan and I am known as Stepan777 at IRC. If you look at the map of Russia you can find city called Bryansk located somewhere near to Ukraine and Belarus, this is where I am from.

I will be working on the project called Video Output Tool and, as you may already know, I will be mentored by Hedgewars author unc0rr. Currently, if you want to record video from Hedgewars you have to use some screen grabbing application. This is not very convenient. For this reason I will implement an easy way to convert game demo (or even save) to video file which then can be easily shared with anyone.
Another planned feature is YouTube uploader which will allow you to upload recorded videos to YouTube directly from game in just several clicks.

Thanks to Hedgewars developers for choosing me. I had a chance to work for another organization during GSoC but I also choose Hedgewars :).

Enjoy Hedgewars and good luck to all other students with their projects!

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!)