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I am back!

Hey dear Readers,

Sorry for the break I took so unexpected (it was a bit unexpected for me as well), but it inevitably made me forget everything about work and the devblog and the game and pretty much everything else, so …. it took a while to get back here. It’s a pretty private reason but it’s nothing bad to worry about ;).

So this is what I am currently working on (besides poker which I still have to work out…):

So I am about to integrate the new layout together with a new JavaScript backend – we want to switch from mootools to jquery, so we’ll have to rework a lot of old junk … which is good, because we have a lot of things that need to be redesigned / rewritten and we hope that these coming changes are going to simplify these works greatly. For the HTML / Tech people out there: The new layout redesign is purely css based and it’s possible to redefine the skin itself (we did because we tried a few layouts) – so theoretically, you could create your own schemes for west.

Cheers,

Zet

25 Comments

  1. darkyndy
    darkyndy April 14, 2011

    Welcome back 🙂
    Good decision to switch to jQuery. And also regarding the redesign if you guys can provide a structure so in the end we could easily can change it.

  2. JoxerTM
    JoxerTM April 14, 2011

    wb zet! 🙂
    We all missed you.

  3. Leni
    Leni April 14, 2011

    Phew! Wb!

    wiithout u – all wokkes stoped 🙁 And a lot of bugs appeared

  4. classius
    classius April 14, 2011

    All hail!
    Zet’s back!

  5. John Sibley
    John Sibley April 14, 2011

    100% Great,
    Nothing to say really besides that.

  6. moxfulder69
    moxfulder69 April 14, 2011

    Leni :
    Phew! Wb!
    wiithout u – all wokkes stoped And a lot of bugs appeared

    YES ! Zet is back !!!!
    A lot of…. And steal waiting for Handwerk translations…
    As I say IG : “have a nice life in the West !”

  7. tanmay190
    tanmay190 April 14, 2011

    wb zet
    also the new switch to jQuery is good change

  8. teteusmm
    teteusmm April 14, 2011

    when will it work in betta?

  9. aliebaba
    aliebaba April 14, 2011

    yeahhh, zet is back 😀 😀

    but the other dev’s dit wel job too, but i like zet 😛

    and, it looks nice 😀

  10. RabbidGamer
    RabbidGamer April 15, 2011

    Welcome back Zed, missed you! 😀
    And wow.. this looks great! Can’t wait for it to be on the beta 🙂

  11. Joao611
    Joao611 April 15, 2011

    Welcome back! 😀

  12. Singh
    Singh April 15, 2011

    welcome back!

  13. Shrike
    Shrike April 16, 2011

    why the switch to jquery?! mootools code is more maintenable and the animations are better..

  14. Shteff (ShtefyX)
    Shteff (ShtefyX) April 17, 2011

    Hey Zet, welcome back!
    Aint you forgot something? 😮 1.31 is here and no free nuggets :'(
    Anyways if you need help I could help you with CSS/HTML coding 😛
    I’m pretty good at it =D

  15. KerneL
    KerneL April 17, 2011

    FInally,
    WELCOME BAC ZET,
    We all wait for you

  16. Zs0lt1
    Zs0lt1 April 17, 2011

    Welcome back Zet! This looks great! Cant wait to see it on Alamogordo 🙂

  17. Leones
    Leones April 17, 2011

    Welcome back zet. I like the idea of being able to create my own skin, will definitely try that one out 🙂

  18. Belle Starr Colt
    Belle Starr Colt April 19, 2011

    Zet I like the new looks and layout… just suggesting to still keep some statistics or achievements accessible from main ingame buttons… not necessary all but the most used, like rankings, quests, etc.

  19. eidos
    eidos April 19, 2011

    Welcome back zet!!!! We missed you! 🙂 Keep up the good work! 🙂

  20. tanmay190
    tanmay190 April 19, 2011

    Wanted to ask a something zet
    it is said that The west switching to jquery
    got a fact about it that the scripts wont work until the whole data including images loads up
    for eg in an invent the things wont work until the images are loaded
    so if switching to jquery then need of invent limit is necessary
    RIGHT????
    PLs let me know if the facts I got to know are right or wrong?

  21. zet
    zet April 19, 2011

    @tanmay190: Switching to jquery won’t have visible impact on the game other than certain changes in how the interface is created. It’s mostly only interesting for addon writers who will need to adapt their scripts. On the other side, it’ll be easier to create custom windows for addons since we are building a small but yet powerful set of easily reusable GUI elements.

  22. zet
    zet April 19, 2011

    @Belle Starr Colt: The plan is to convert old achievements and make them fit into the new system. I am not aware of the details since this isn’t my task.

  23. tanmay190
    tanmay190 April 20, 2011

    thanks for clearing the doubt

  24. sid
    sid April 20, 2011

    Welcome back zet
    but why cant i find you in the beta 1
    🙁

  25. laccy
    laccy April 25, 2011

    hello

    jquery is easyer and more user friendly, especially the part of DOM

    please provide a basic graphic pack so we can change the pictures also, this would speed up the game if pictures are local hosted

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