I figured out why the goblin was so twisted (see the 12/19 update). The fixes are coded, and Pygmalion can now read and display any animation frame of any Rune .SCM model. Time to plug in the animation sequence playing code from GwynFlex!

While the choice of winner of our Action category proved relatively straightforward, the battle for second place was even more highly contentious. Claims were advanced, withdrawn, thrust forward and then sent back again but after much discussion, debate and a few horns of mead, Human Head Studio's Viking-themed hack 'n' slasher Rune got the decisive vote. It was chosen for its beautiful looks, unremitting action and, er, forthright views on the issue of violence in video games. Norsey, but nice.

- Single Player and Multiplayer modes
- Different styles of gameplay, such as deathmatch, Capture the Dragonballs and many others
- Many different DBZ characters to choose from
- The abilty to fly, use KI, etc.

Ragnar is a young Wikinger, which matured even only to the krieger, when already a heavy function expects it. Bad powers have themselves swore, the Ragnarok, thus the world fall to cause. With sword, axe and war hammer you pull alone against the putting ions of the bad one.

- Round based
- 2 teams fighting each other
- You can play against BOTS, they use diffrent races and weapons
- Free The Princess (FTP) mission objective
- Assault the Castle mission objective
- Races with different properties
- You can buy your weapons
- You can buy protecting armor
- Kicked the unfair Rune Powers
- 3 new maps ! And the old ones are redone
- Some work on bows...

· no bloodlust runes
· no health runes
· head arena
· limb arena

-After achieving the mission goal or after killing all enemy units one round is over and the mission starts again.
-Two armies (good and evil) fighting each other.
-Armor, weapons and upgrades are bought at the beginning of a round
-With the money you earn within a round, you can buy new weapons, shields or rune power.
-Earning money by winning, killing and also for the loser army.
-New textures for winning/losing message.
-The game menue will replace the recent way of buying weapons and shields.

Game developer Human Head Studios announced today that the Macintosh version of Rune TM, its Norse mythology-inspired 3D action-adventure game, has shipped to stores nationwide. Rune utilizes an enhanced version of Epic Games' Unreal Tournament game engine and features amazingly life-like animations, a detailed weapon system and a unique combat system. The Macintosh version was co-developed with Mac specialists at Westlake Interactive. Published by developer-driven computer and video game publisher Gathering of Developers and distributed by Take-Two Interactive, Rune is available for a suggested retail price of $39.99.

I've been away from home on business every week in November. Too much travel - I hate it, as it keeps me out of my mad scientist lab where Pygmalion is cooking.

Rune has been out for a month now. I wrote a review of it for Mindless Games Network, a walkthrough for RuneNews.com, and I just released a TrueType font for fans to use to create text in the style of the Rune logo.

Right now I'm working on the Rune support in Pygmalion. Tough going. Rune uses the Unreal engine, so all of the player models are compiled into an internal binary "package" format called .UMS that isn't published anywhere (unless maybe you're an engine licensee). Once the .UMS is decompiled, the models are still in Human Head Studio's proprietary Super Cool Model (.SCM) format. Paul MacArthur at Human Head has been helping me out with info on the .SCM format. You'll know more, when I know more.