Top row from left to right: Loriel, Sven2, Clonk-Karl, Zapper. Bottom row: Newton, Irina, Maikel, Günther, Clonkine, Mortimer.

Several OpenClonk developers and users met during the previous week in Offenburg, Germany to discuss the future of the project and have some fun together. Tobias “Newton” Zwick, David “Zapper” Dormagen, Ruth “Clonkine” Fiedler, Martin “Mortimer” Plicht, Maikel “Maikel” de Vries, Benjamin “Loriel” Herr, his girlfriend Irina “Sul” Kadyrova, Günther “Guenther” Brammer, Sven “(the famous) Sven2″ Eberhardt and Armin “Clonk-Karl” Burgmeier attended. Ruth’s little sister Judith “tschudi” Fiedler was also amongst us in the evenings after getting home from work. Newton summarized most discussions and decisions in the forums. Initially we wanted to have a release around the time of the meeting but we didn’t make it. There is still the plan to do one quite soon now though. Basically some more polish (like a logo everyone can live with, menu graphics and a tutorial) has still to be done.

Seems there is something very exciting going on. I guess I was searching for construction kits in one of the S2Tower riddles.

We have also been quite productive as you can see when having a look at the number of commits and bugs fixed. Apart from OpenClonk, we also played several other games (video, board and card games), including Clonk Rage where a few new top scores in the Settlement league have been achieved. We also went hiking in the Black Forest (it’s great when it is warm enough to only wear a t-shirt but there is still snow laying around) and visited Freiburg im Breisgau. Another day we went into a climbing garden having fun on parkours between trees several meters high. I for myself have much more respect for Clonks climbing and hangling now .

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