I think the first step towards the final goal of reformatting all the code into a C++ Object Oriented style would be to make the entire thing compatible with the GNU G++ compiler, and I mean everything . The second step would be to ask the project heads if they are willing to change the project's of...

But lamefun, don't game developers often use assembler to optimize their lowest-level routines? Surely the likes of EA, Activision, and Valve won't allow that to happen. Large gaming companies have a little more clout than one might expect. Even though some people might hate large game companies (fo...

The Unvanquished website is nice, I have to give it that. But given a bit of poking around, I didn't find anything for convenient real-time communication except a few things referencing the IRC chat on Freenode. My suggestion would be to embed some sort of Web IRC Client (qwebirc?) into a page on th...

Hi, I'm Omnipraesens. I can't remember what my handle used to be back when I played Tremulous, but I frequently played 1.1-1.2/GPP. I'm a C/C++ programmer, and I rather like the Unvanquished project and have been studying the source code carefully, so expect to see me posting in the Community Develo...

Great idea, but I think it should have one simple modification: Instead of being re-spawned with full health, the possessed could instead be instantly reduced to 5 HP maximum, without moving the position of the player, and have to deal damage to enemy players to increase their maximum HP, but not to...