PoxNora - Path to Conquest (6th expansion)

[Gedden]

http://www.poxnora.com

I have not posted on these fourms since we went into open beta in 2006 =)

PoxNora just released its 6th expansion, path to conquest. With this expansion poxnora now has single player AI, ranked multiplayer system, more than 500+ unique playable runes, and as always an active community. It launches via webstart or a downloadable client. The game is all java front to back, including the bot servers, and the client renders w/ JOGL. Check it out.

~Gedden, lead developer
http://www.poxnora.com

[gouessej]

http://www.poxnora.com

I have not posted on these fourms since we went into open beta in 2006 =)

PoxNora just released its 6th expansion, path to conquest. With this expansion poxnora now has single player AI, ranked multiplayer system, more than 500+ unique playable runes, and as always an active community. It launches via webstart or a downloadable client. The game is all java front to back, including the bot servers, and the client renders w/ JOGL. Check it out.

~Gedden, lead developer
http://www.poxnora.com

It seems interesting but I can't install it. No Linux version again... Why? Why don't you suggest at least a version using Java Webstart for Linux users if you can't use dmg and exe?

[ChrisM]

Wow!  Looks fantastic and deep!  Will be exploring this more

-Chris

Games published by our own members! Go get 'em!

[Gedden]

You can play on linux. When you click on the 'play now' button it takes you to a page where you can select between either downloading an installer for windows/OSX or launching the game via webstart, and we keep the JOGL bindings for linux up to date.

We never created a custom installer for Linux, mainly because the installer we have for windows is simply a bundled VM / downloader for those people who may not be quite savy enough to have a VM installed. If you use linux, you probablly understand the concept of having an up-to-date java VM installed anyway. That and it serves as a replacement for webstart which has proven time and time again *not to be a robust delivery system.

Finally, With more than 2 million registered users I can count the number of linux players we have by hand! I wish we had more so we could justify spending some more time to cater to that crowd!

[gouessej]

You can play on linux. When you click on the 'play now' button it takes you to a page where you can select between either downloading an installer for windows/OSX or launching the game via webstart, and we keep the JOGL bindings for linux up to date.

We never created a custom installer for Linux, mainly because the installer we have for windows is simply a bundled VM / downloader for those people who may not be quite savy enough to have a VM installed. If you use linux, you probablly understand the concept of having an up-to-date java VM installed anyway. That and it serves as a replacement for webstart which has proven time and time again *not to be a robust delivery system.

Finally, With more than 2 million registered users I can count the number of linux players we have by hand! I wish we had more so we could justify spending some more time to cater to that crowd!

Fine, thank you for this answer. Ask some people here on javagaming not to encourage full windows gaming and maybe one day, gamers will choose massively linux. I will try your game 

[SwampChicken]

Gedden,
I've not seen your game before, but just looking around at your webpage your java game looks brilliant! I'm impressed by your java efforts and wish you the best of luck!

[gouessej]

I precise that maybe Linux users "hide" their OS when they surf... Therefore, you won't see most of them lol.

[Gedden]

Hehe, while that may be true there have been very few requests for that from linux players =) Would be interesting to run a poll.

We were thinking of enabling shaders, but the effect system we have has been more than doing its part so far. In fact, I already wrote and integrated a shader framework for pox, but im wary about adding a new set of requirements. At it stands, pox can be played on pretty weak machines.

[zammbi]

Looks like a nice game, tried to play it but when it's updating I get "General Exception!", when ever my net goes down. To solve this I need to uninstall and restart again. I also tried the webstart version but gets stuck, I guess I'll leave it going and hope it works.
Hopefully I'll get to play this some day 

[Nacros]

Really impressive and interesting. Works perfect on windows/vista with the installer.

Games published by our own members! Go get 'em!

[Eli Delventhal]

Looks cool! Glad to see Java being used to extensively.

[viwoj]

Excellent man