Announcements
2009-06-25 - We now use Git
The Subversion repository of the SourceForge project ultrastar-ng has been terminated and is now archived read-only. The latest code can be found in the brand new Git repository, tediously converted from the SVN by knittl. The repository URL and other information is available on the developer page. In this move, all the developers of the old project have been moved to the new project, performous, and the old project will quietly shut down.
2009-06-18 - Status update
It's been quiet for a while, so I figured it's a time to post an update. In the past seven months we have fixed a bunch of bugs, added a completely new configuration system, added many features that people have requested, reworked the song list exporter, created a completely new song browser with shiny graphics and crossfades, added experimental Rock Band drumset support and documented the source code. There will not be any big new (band game) features in 0.3.1 but after the release we can freely start breaking things again and that allows much faster development. One quite important thing that we might do is switching SDL to Clanlib 2.0. This needs testing, but it is likely that Clanlib has better full screen mode handling than SDL, and it certainly integrates better with C++.
As a sidenote, we are still looking for new team members with skills in C++, vector graphics (SVG), XML and/or websites. Join our IRC channel #performous at Freenode for more information. Oh, and please kick Tronic on the butt if Performous does not have guitar support by the end of July.
2008-12-01 - Ultrastar-songs repacked for Debian
The Debian packages have been recreated because the original ones (ultrastar-songs-2 and ultrastar-songs-restricted-2) had major issues. Please upgrade to the new versions if you installed the old versions from our website. Apologies for the inconvinience.
2008-11-03 - Performous 0.3.0 released
Oh yes, it is exactly one year since the 0.2.0 release and we are releasing again. But speaking on anniversaries, the project founder Vincent Le Ligeour aka Yoda turns 29 years today, too :).
Just to give some idea of how hard we have worked since the last release, there have been over seven hundred SVN commits since 0.2.1, which is more than in all earlier versions combined (490 commits).
New features:
- Multiplayer with Singstar mics or any other stereo input
- Dramatically improved performance, runs fine on very slow machines now
- Fully OpenGL-based (some kind of 3D acceleration is now mandatory, but even Intel works fine)
- Heavily pimped graphics in singing screen
- Automatically zooming notelines in singing screen
- Real widescreen support (adaptive layout instead of stretching or cropping)
- Song folders are now scanned recursively, in the background without blocking the UI
- Ingame and preview volume may be controlled
- Audio roundtrip latency and audio/video sync controls added
- New score window (still no highscores)
- New menu theme song
- Separate game engine thread, so that slow graphics rendering should no longer affect pitch detection
- Our own audio library libda, supporting ALSA, Pulseaudio, JACK and others
- FFMPEG-based video and audio decoding (together with libda replaces Xine and GStreamer)
- CMake-based build (Autotools are gone for good)
- + too many others to list them all here
Big thanks to everyone who has put effort into this release. This includes yoda, tronic, tobnob, jack_md, zarrn, dex7 and knittl, not to forget all those who helped testing the game on different platforms or who provided the media files that we use (full credits in Authors.txt, inside the package).
Head over to the download page to get the new version! If you are not in a hurry, please notice that we are expecting to release 0.3.1 shortly after, as there probably are some issues in 0.3.0 due to it having major changes on every sector.