It's been a few weeks since the Tiamat alpha, and I wanted to give an update on my progress towards beta. The good news is that I've finished the exporting of miniature scale maps. The bad news is that my shamefully underpowered server can't handle large scale maps. I've been meaning to get a new server for sometime, but I've been utterly amazed how well my current server has handled things. If I gave out the specs, I think most engineers would laugh.

But now is the time, and I've ordered a new server with the ram and processing power to handle manipulating of large image files. That will unfortunately delay the beta a little bit as I wait for the server and then build it. But in the mean time I will get more things done on the development side.

If you are a tester who has been playing with Tiamat and giving me some good feedback, feel free to request a miniature scale map. I'm willing to generate a few free maps from time to time for people who are helping me debug and refine things.