Some may have noticed that since the release of A7, Gamestudio support and distribution is not handled by Conitec but by another company, the oP group Germany GmbH.

Old timers may remember that Gamestudio was originally developed by oP group, and eventually sold to Conitec. In the 1990s, the oP group developed several small computer games, advertising games, TV games, and virtual exhibitions. Afterwards my job at Conitec became too time consuming, and the other oP group members had not much time either, so the oP group was put to sleep.

Now after ten years, oP group is starting with game development again. We are currently applying for a contract to develop a large scale MMOG for a certain organization. They have selected the A7 engine for this project. The main reason was probably the experience of setting up a well working MMOG server for 350 users very quickly with A7 Pro, with only a few lines of script. However, the project will require some extensions to A7, like the PhysX plugin that's currently developed by Chris3D, and a MySQL plugin.

Due to our knowledge of A7, we hope to have a good chance to win the development contract. We've already got the contract to prepare the project and hire the team of level designers.

Please cross your fingers that we'll also get the final contract. Development would then start in September. The features implemented in A7 during the next year will become a little MMOG focused. But I guess this will also benefit the community.

That is great! I´ll keep my fingers crossed

I hope the best
for the company

That sounds cool.

Fastlane would be happy to read this, but I guess either he's part of the whole thing, or he has already left...

Is Skaphander 2 coming ?

*sighs and glances at his skaphander box in the shelf*

Gamestudio, i really love you.
Good luck with this, oP Group!! (Or Conitec )

JCL, may i ask you some questions?? Are you an employee in Conitec or oP??
If you're an employee in Conitec, are you the CEO of Conitec?? (Because in the Whois page for conitec.net domain, i saw that you made that domain).

Best luck to A7

So A7 will switch finally form ODE to Nvidia Physx !
Any information on the mmo (rpg, second life,racing) ?

Really cool news, jcl. Do you guys use MED? Or do you primarily use another editor -- such as Blender

While I personally don't need to make an MMO, I'm stoked that you guys are taking on such a project, and I'm looking forward to reaping the rewards

Jibb

Das sind richtig gute Nachrichten JCL. Ich offe ihr schafft es.

Demnach kann man nur sagen:
"A7 for the win!!"

Wow, that's great news! I hope you get that contract and wish you the best!

cheers