Arianne ALPHA 2 Tech Preview 2 Released

[ Thanks to mblanch for this link. ]

Arianne ALPHA 2 Tech Preview 2 is out. This is mainly a bug fixes over previous Tech Preview 1 release, and still lack of a working client.

What is Arianne?

Arianne is a virtual world. It is a massively multiplayer role playing game you access through an Internet connection.

You choose your own virtual life and immerse yourself into a huge, wild new world, where you have an unprecedented degree of freedom to shape your own destiny.

Arianne is also a Massively Multiplayer Engine, that you can use to build you own online games. Soon we will tell you more about this.

This version of Arianne is released as a Tech Preview, it still has no working client, but we really need that you download it and try to compile and run it.

These are the changes from Tech Preview 1:

• Added Last Login information
• Added MacOS X support
• Corrected a ton of bugs, mainly:
  • Incorrect clients management
  • Actions wasn't correctly managed on RP
  • Secure Login works perfectly now
  • Better error diagnose
• Added Server Command Line help
• Added option to disable Server Prompt
• tar.gz file is now Linux compatible line ended.
• Tons of smaller updates

Thank you to those of you that downloaded Tech Preview 1 and have been reporting problems widely.

Please, go, download Arianne and test it. The sooner the bugs are cleared, the sooner the working client will be avaliable.

Arianne Web Site

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