first version of Bloom editor, a 3D text editor was showcased

animationsinstitue.de showed some impressions from their Emote Messaging System, that can be used to created individual, animated short messages to share with friends

early screenshots from the platform game Bombs&Penguins were released

beta pictures of the ambitous game Battle Tiers Invasion were shared

the Ogre AntTweakBar plugin TwOgre was updated to work with Linux

metaldev updated his GUI library buttonGUI as well has as his LFA Scene Manager

updated version of the game GraLL2 was published

Lightwave to Ogre exporter was updated by spacegaier to work with LW 9.6 and LW 10

teaser video of Will of Nature, a really nice school project from the Netherlands, was released

first ingame footage from the German MMORPG Espadon Online was published

NeoAxis game engine reached their 1.0 milestone

Oogst finally released his long awaited game Proun, that got a great deal of buzz on the internet – dedicated post with some additional information will follow soon

In addition, there is a lot of progress with our four Google Summer of Code projects. Check the out in this subforum.

And the breaking news is: The highly acclaimed Ogre based game Torchlight went platinum as they sold more than 1 million copies. Congratulations!

• Our own Assaf Raman has been busy implementing basic CG support in the OpenGL ES 2.0 Render system. He has also taken the time to write “EmbeddedZipArchiveFactory” in OgreZip which allows zip resource embedding in executables and shared libraries.
• Choasavy has posted some promising screenshots of a still unnamed 3D space simulation game.
• Xavyiy has announced his amazing new Paradise Framework.
• Runic Games’ “Torchlight” for XboxLive Arcade was shown at the CES 2011.
• CoreDumped added a ScriptCache, an effort to reduce script compiling time of resources which combined with Assaf Raman’s already implemented ShaderCache, can bring down application start-up times considerably.
• University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) showed off some impressions and insight of their naval 3D simulator for the Navy of Sri Lanka, named “Vidusayura”.

On a side note: Our papercut initiative is coming along well with many, many submissions, but of course there can never be enough! So keep them coming!

The single player game launches today, with an MMO version planned for 2010. Having played the single player game, it’s immediately obvious that it was designed by a team of veterans of the genre; it’s highly polished and a lot of fun to play, and we’re very proud that OGRE has been a part of creating this title.

Torchlight is available to purchase as a digital download from Perfect World, Steam, Direct2Drive and other partners. Go get it!