I recently decided to bring back Ithilis, my text based game I started as my senior thesis. It died out after I graduated, but I’ve started on it again. The original code was my first real foray into PHP and, as such, it was mostly garbage. All the new Ithilis code is being written from the ground up and it is already drastically faster, better looking, and more stable. As usual, I welcome and encourage anyone to help with the project – I’ll even teach you what you need to know about php if you’re willing to learn.

Right now I have accounts and the farm up and running with some progress made on the dragon roosts. I don’t expect to bring on any beta testers for a while, but if you’re interested in playing with some alpha code (ESPECIALLY if you are on a mac), I’ll set you up on the test server and you can mess around.

I don’t really have any estimates at this point on when it will be up and running. I have other work that is higher priority right now, but it still sees a few hours a week. I’d like to tentatively say I will get a good summary written up in the next week or two and post it here.