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Just a quick update as I noticed this article was submitted but never approved. Anyhoo, I don't have Debian so I can't verify its accuracy, but there are greater things to worry about.

This one comes from Rivon, and it's here.

Overkill and I have been doing some work fixing current wonkiness in the engine. Thanks to his help, we should be seeing some very promising improvements to the engine.

I will be releasing ika 0.63 in the very soon future (most likely this week), which includes numerous bugfixes (including better Vista support) and a few small feature additions in the Canvas system.

Once that release goes out, we will be starting to implement our more radical changes to ika, such as the integration with the new iked, continued work on IGL, and other such goodies. I will be writing up some articles detailing these works and our planned changes.

ika needs your help to be cooler and better! Sometime ago, andy, our lord and creator, moved on with his life. Since that time, I have sort of taken on unofficial reigns of ika.

I am a big fan of ika's core engine. It is cross-platform, coded pretty well, and is very lightweight. Unfortunately, I feel there is a lot of work that needs to be done for it. Our website is broken and very neglected, which I am to blame for. The engine is very solid, but it is quite a large step to walk up to get running.

We could use more manpower for creating ika. I posted in the forum lately about my future ideas for ika, but I cannot accomplish all these things myself in a respectable timeframe. There is also the manner that I want ika to retain its cross-platform friendliness but I am no Linux expert.

So, yes this is a post asking for anyone who can help, TO help! Stop by the ika IRC channel (#ika on irc.esper.net) and let us know you are alive. And if you can help make ika better, make it known to either myself or SDHawk.

SDHawk has written up an in-depth post about ikaDB on the rpgmaker.net forums.

Check it out here.

Thanks to the efforts of SDHawk, iked v2 now comes with a complete database tool for your game.



What you can do with this, is define a "model" for your game's datatypes and iked will do all the saving, loading, and GUI creation for you to manage them.

We'll have more information on this as it gets refined and polished.