Subj : Re: Play Rogue in my lame server
To : fusion
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Mar 17 2021 08:59 am
Re: Re: Play Rogue in my lame server
By: fusion to Arelor on Tue Mar 16 2021 09:54 pm
> Ar> Somebody at SlackBuilds noticed my patches to Rogue and they are
getting imported in the appropiate Slackware package. That's awesome.
>
> that's too funny.. i was watching that on the mailing list ;) seems other
people have a thing for the old ways too. the way he made it sound it would
> be like LORD without Violet or something
Ah, you mean the talk about dropping modern Angband versions and sticking with
old ones?
You know, these games are an anomaly. In the old days, if you released a game
and then maintained it, you focused development on fixing issues and the game
never stopped
being recognizeable as itself. Doom and Doom 2 and Heretic and whatever had
maintenance done on their engines throughout their lifetime (actually you can
argue they are
still maintained), but the games never ceased being identifiable as themselves.
However, you take an old Angband and compare it to a new one, and it feels
clearly
distinct.
If you don't like the differences, I think it is reasonable to feel backstabbed
:-) But since these games have decades of development and they don't have a
clear focused
goal for the most part, changes you don't like are bound to happen, at which
point you are better off sticking to a version you like and skipping the rest.
In my opinion, when you bring divisive changes to the table you should spin
your game off like a sequel or something :-)
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