Encreecia 0.0.11 released
July 8th, 2009
Encreecia v0.0.11 has been released. It contains 44 commits from 2009-03 which I forgot to release back then.
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Encreecia will become Pay to Play
April 1st, 2009
In a somewhat unexpected move (even to me), Encreecia is going be run using “Pay to Play” model in the future. What this means is that the players need to subscribe with a monthly payment – the amount is open at this point.
In the first stage, the aim is to cover costs for a dedicated server hosted by Nebula. If we can’t get enough subscribers to offset the costs, another possibility is selling in-game items and goods for the players. This model has been well-tested in various online games and should prove to be effective.
In the second stage, when the server costs are covered, the plan is to fund the development with the income. This includes graphics artists, background music composers, UI designers, etc. Depending on the amount of money left, I may consider working part-time on the project myself (unlike working on it at evenings on my free time now).
The game will still remain free software in the future. The only change to that is that the Pay to Play server will be always running the newest software, and the free software releases will lag a bit behind that. So you need to subscribe to see all the bells and whistles.
Subscribers will also get priority whenever bugs and in-game issues are being looked into.
More info coming soon…
Update: Note the date 
Encreecia 0.0.10 released
February 22nd, 2009
First Encreecia testing round: success
February 8th, 2009
More or less. I got a lot of new ideas & important feedback. Six of us joined:
- Oak
- aGu
- beardy
- Targhar
- eladan
- xeno
There weren’t as many issues as I was expecting (testers might disagree), only major one was a last time change I did and blundered. 
Thanks to everyone! 
New project released: Encreecia – The Online Adventure Game
February 3rd, 2009
Encreecia 0.0.9 has been released just now. This is the first public release, and comprises of two years of development and 14k+ lines of Java source (including newlines & comments). It marks my biggest single Free Software contribution so far, and hopefully the last big one, ever. From now on, I hopefully Release Early & Often
For a short flashback to the background of this project, check out the history page. Or go straight for the screenshots.
41d966ea51c20d40fd46114cc44ba66e3a09af4a jfealdia-client-v0.0.9.zip b42f8c9198046cacd5eef728df151f7770b5ebce jfealdia-src-v0.0.9.zip
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