For anyone who plays EVE Online, I have a proposition for you. Myself and a few nerdy corpmates have been working on the django-eve projects, which are a collection of Django apps for EVE Online. We're looking at trying to get more people involved with the project, whether it be providing feedback, patches, or joining up with us longer term.

Our eventual goal as a corporation would be to use these various open-source components ...

To improve collaboration, the Evennia MUD Server project now has an IRC channel on Freenode, #evennia. We have taken it a step further and linked this up with our test game, so those messing around in-game can still talk/listen on the IMCEvennia channel (which is also replicated to the MudBytes Inter-MUD network).

Evennia is a Python+Twisted+Django-based MUD server. For those that who have no idea what this is, it's a base ...

After a few hours of play, it seems like EVE on Snow Leopard brings a noticeable improvement on several fronts. First and foremost, there is a definite increase in framerate and performance with multiple clients open. I can not quantify this scientifically (or am too lazy to do so).

One of the other things that I'm really hyped about is that this brand new Macbook Pro runs a lot cooler with two EVE clients ...

For the use of fellow Djangonauts out there, I introspected and fixed up CCP's SQL dump of EVE Online data. This means you can now get access to everything from the comforts of the Django ORM.

The project is still very new, and I'm not even sure it's going to be attractive given the table layout. At this point, it is a bunch of introspected models and a fixed up database dump ...

Just looking through DjangoSites.org and Googling around, I'm absolutely puzzled by the lack of Django-based browser games. It is such an idea platform for developing these, yet there are only a few that are actually open to the public (some of which aren't in English, and are thus inaccessible to me). There seem to be a few games out there in French, Chinese, and some other things I don't really recognize ...

It was only a matter of time before work started on something like Guitar Hero that uses a real guitar as a "controller." Guitar Rising by GameTank, Inc. is looking very interesting. Instead of using a little plastic, five-button controller, plug in your guitar of choice and get to it.

The advantage to this over Guitar Hero and Rock Band is that the player is actually learning how to play a real instrument, meanwhile enjoying ...