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Pingus
Pingus revival efforts are looking for bug testers. That means we can expect a new Pingus release soon, and even sooner if you head over there and help test it.
Also looking for testers is iteam, the Gunbound/Worms clone. Test packages are avaialabe for Windows and Ubuntu. Links and compilation instructions can be found in the Ubuntu forums thread where the game concept was originally incepted.
There's another snapshot release of JCRPG too, which has very lovely foilage lately. Now a few modellers have started contributing to the project so in the next few weeks hopefully we'll see a bit more gameplay development and perhaps the beginnings of the first game to use JCRPG which itself is a framework project for creating classic RPGs.
Somebody commented on yesterday's article that perhaps the Flightgear team should be avoiding the version number 0.9.11 given that the game is a flight sim. What do you think?
regarding the flightsim's version number I think it's a bit weird and makes us all remember that awful day, but I don't think they should skip a number just because of that. I'm not american though, so this issue might touch your feelings more than me.
ReplyDeletebad idea IMHO, because if You resign from 9.11 version number then You should also resign from every other number which is similar to date of some plane crash (because people died there too).
ReplyDeleteon jcrpg, i don't want to go against your optimism :-D but i think gameplay development is still far away...first geography parts, climate, wildlife, then economics (cities), humanoids, AI with skills and finally you the player and scripting... far away from a gameplay :-D But model contributions will be needed very much for wildlife, humanoids, even with no interaction for the player (yet!!).
ReplyDeletecheers,
Paul
el mariachi: people need to let it go, it's done it's over with, it may or may not have been who took credit for it. life goes on. the end.
ReplyDeleteIt would seem more wrong to me if they did skip a version number. Sort of calling attention to it, and dredging it all back up. They ought to just go about the release as though it were an ordinary numbered release, which is what it ought to be.
ReplyDeleteI think most Americans are probably over it by now. It helps that process along that everyone and their brother has been invoking 9/11 to justify all sorts of things ever since. It gets to be little more than a sticker slapped on the front of all the bad things our government does.
"We need to funnel a lot of taxpayer money to my brother's emu farm, 'cause otherwise the terrorists win, because 9/11 changed everything, and you people are just stuck in a pre-9/11 embezzling-is-bad mindset!"
Kinda takes the sting out of it after a few years.
People are only as strong as they tell themselves they are. It is OK to feel pain when you see that number and you're reminded of 9/11, but tell yourself: "I got over it" and don't bring up the subject. It will make you feel better. And again: why let some terrorists decide what numbers we can use and why keep talking about their attack on WTC when that's exactly what they want? Mourn the loss of your loved ones all you want, but don't let the terrorists win by giving them too much space in your mind.
ReplyDeleteBeing an American, I'm with those who say that they should use the number. Shying away from the number won't help things; I would say that they would be best off not making a big deal about it. If they felt necessary, there could be a dedication included, or something, but I wouldn't say it's necessary.
ReplyDeleteIt's a little like sex and swearing here, if it's never mentioned it'll never be fixed. We aren't children, or stupid; if things are addressed directly, they can be fixed.
P.S. Mantar has a point about it, and terrorism, becoming a political scoring-point; thereby robbing the issues of their very real importance.
Hello America, wakey wakey! Stop pretending 9/11 was anything other than a LIHOP or MIHOP operation to introduce the Patriot act and to rally support for the invasion of the Middle East, planned long before the events by the PNAC.
ReplyDeleteI'd definitely like to see some more Pingus. If I remember correctly it reached its current playable condition via the Linux Game Tome's Game of the Month project and it puzzled me why once it'd reached that stage they then left it.
nonsense; not being an american, It would never even occur to me that numbering continuously to 0.9.11 has anything to do with september 11th attacks.
ReplyDeleteGame version numbering simply should not have to have this kind of political responsibilities.
there is a performance patch released on sf.net site of jcrpg (javacrpg.sf.net) today for jcrpg last snapshot release (2007-10-10). cheers, Paul
ReplyDeleteobviously 2007-08-10 :-)
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