• Andrew
• Dec 27,2007
• In: Our Products, Site News

“Touched” to return in ‘08

Yeah, yeah, yeah… sorry we’ve been behind with updates and I didn’t make a cheerful little Christmas poem to warm your hearts. (Did I mention we’re out of firefood, too?) But fear not! Your present just got a little lost on the way from our hard drive to yours.

So what are we talking about? The name starts with “Touched” and ends with “RPG” and it just so happens to be coming back to it’s former glory in 2008.

Alex and I have started working on Touched finally once again after two months of downtime. He’s now hosting the server and re-designing the Touched World with new maps and all while I work on v3.0 of the TRPG Client.

What’s this v3.0 stuff about now, eh? Well to tell you, I’ve been rather unhappy with Touched’s GUI from the start, hence why I’ve always been changing it. So what’s coming out now for Touched? Well first of all, I’ve bundled all the TRPG windows into one parent window meaning you no longer have to keep track of everything on your desktop and ninety-five items on your task bar. Additionally, I’ve started slicing the original GUI apart and into seperate windows you can drag around the parent one, letting you view the game however you want to!

(Note: By the time I get this completely finished, the new UI may look different than this)

You’ll notice at the bottom there’s now a “Status bar” which replaces that crappy old loading window that wold pop up. Of course, for debugging purposes you’ll be able to open up a new, simpler version of that window if you need to send us error reports or anything.

At the top you’ll notice the new toolbar. On it are buttons that let you open/close other windows that the game has such as PC Radio Player, Touched Web Browser, the news window, the documentation and more.

I’ll post more on the development of the game and the new client as time passes on. I hope everyone had a merry/jolly/happy/uber holiday and will have a spiffy New Year. Woot.