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A little house cleaning.

Renegade Music

No, I haven’t forgotten about my latest project, there has been more delays so I’m not setting an official launch date this time.

quantumRadio

I’m working on a redesign here, but Renegade Music comes first :P

RazorIRC

So, I’ve started working on RazorIRC again, but on the Windows side first.  I’ve come up with a few UI concepts and I’m simplifying the direction a little bit.

We are not gonna have any add on system or plugin architecture right off the bat.  We’re just going to have a barebones IRC client, we will however in the future be adding these features.

Powered By…

So..

What could this post be about?…

Well quantumRadio, by the end of the year, will cease to exist.  Thats right, it’s time to bring in Renegade Music to our family, quantumRadio will however stay up for archive purposes.  The main quantumRadio page will redirect to the Renegade Music site.

Now for the “Powered By…” part of this post.  Renegade will be powered by Crystal Engine along with Project Crystal (it’s not being referred to as Crystal ID for a reason.).

With the final release of Crystal Engine, which will be getting a new name, we will have a working draft of the Project Crystal ID API.  With this API you will be able to create login connectors for various platforms.  We will be working on a plug-in for WordPress shortly after the draft spec.

Now for a short little blip about the backwards step in the naming convention.

Project Crystal will be getting a public name within the next few months.

That is all for now.

The goodies!

So, I’ve decided that I’m going to move back to my own code base for qR, and to kick this change off I’ve created the “Network Bar” for the “Crystal” line of sites, this includes this blog.

By the way, “Crystal” is the codename for the site network internally, I haven’t finalized the naming yet as it will require a domain name and some “other” facets to take off.  The sites will use a unified login system, that means you can register on eg. RazorIRC.com and login with that same username and password on quantumRadio or future projects.  You will also be able to link your twitter and facebook accounts with your Crystal login.

And that basically what is Project Crystal is.

The Project Crystal page will be updated later this weekend with the official logo.

More information will be posted later this weekend, stay tuned!

And a line is drawn

So I’ve just decided to draw a line in how many projects I’ll take on at once.

After the website for the church is done I’m only going to have two more web design projects, ever.  The two final projects are the RazorIRC chain of sites and the quantumRadio chain of sites (this blog is actually part of both so it’ll be updated hopefully sooner rather then later)

Now with both chains (besides the blog… or maybe it’ll be included in this…) will share the same code base for the back end.  This should make it easy to maintain for me.

RazorIRC projects, these for the most part are still under way, except I put EdgeChat on the back burner again.  The first project to be released will likely be the RazorIRC iOS client.

So thats about it.

–Matt

A New Challenger approaches!

Hey all,

Been awhile!

So, I’ve got a new project starting up, it’s going to take away my focus from EdgeChat a bit but that’s no biggy!

So what is this new project you ask?  Well it’s a somewhat Simcity / Micropolis clone.  But I plan on eventually doing it in 3D and for Windows only.  It’ll be written in C# using either the XNA Framework (which means it could come to the Xbox 360, Zune and Windows Phone Series 7 or C# and SlimDX (A .Net wrapper for DirectX).

This project stemmed from myself and my father since we both love the Simcity franchise and well Simcity Societies was a huge flop.  So we’re going to do it right and make a true Simcity 4 successor!  Plus we may open source it or we may sell it on steam, time will tell.