Aziel Happenings
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Hi all. Just a quick update on Aziel:
I’ve locked down the forum for now due to the massive amounts of spam going through it. I will bring it back up once I figure out how to block it all. If someone knows how to block spam on SMF, please let me know.
As for Aziel itself, a few things have happened
Firstly, I’m in touch with the maker of game creator (http://code.google.com/p/game-creator/) and we think we’ll be working together.
Secondly, I have chosen to drop XNA because the dev team has indicated that they’re not going to do much about the current deployment issues with the framework. This was always a big turnoff for me. The worst case scenario for setting up XNA redistributable is more than 50 megs of downloads. Instead we’re going to go with OpenTK which I’m happy to say is also cross-platform. The same .exe file will run on windows, linux, mac, and anything else that has Mono.
This does mean a new learning curve for me though. I’ve never worked with OpenGL before and I had fairly little experience at working at this low level. Its going to take some time to recreate the features that we’ve been relying on from XNA.
Once we roll out something that can run and do stuff, I will set up our svn server to automatically compile stable code and update it so that testers will have access to the most up to date builds. Its probably at this point that I will put effort into fixing the forum spam issue if its not trivial.
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December 26th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Pretty sure a simple SMF capcha (when registering) mod will stop the majority of the spam. Any current accounts can be cleaned off by running a few scripts. For example, delete all 0-post accounts in case they become active in the future. You’ll probably have to hand pick the spammers already registered.
December 26th, 2009 at 9:26 am
I’m pretty sure there’s already a captcha but I’ll double check and replace it if there is one. I initially blocked the spam by blocking a few obscure email domains, but they seem to have cracked gmail now. Deleting them isn’t too hard because most auto posted in the spam board. Its just that I found no automatic way to delete posters in a forum and my script didn’t clear off the user data so now I have a fragmented database.