The Battle for Wesnoth Forums

Hello, As someone who was formerly involved in OSS game development (Freeciv), who still does some OSS development on occasion, (BRL-CAD) and who is interested to see the scene grow I thought I would add a couple of comments to this thread. About the comments that it is not clear how the GPL applies...

:( You guys left me behind by not supporting panther any more. p.s. but according to macgamefiles.com, you still do. AFAIK, Saltybanana (our friendly MacOS X binary builder) only builds binaries for Tiger since 2.0.4. Here is his blog: http://blog.saltybanana.com/peel/ IIRC none of the main develop...

Disto wrote:

vasc wrote:Since when did that stop people from playing Warcraft?

It is a mere clone of Dune II after all.

But i believe it has better graphics, innovative and Dune || is getting a bit old.

Ah! But that is where you, nice Wesnoth artists, come into my cunning plan!

First of all, I would like to congratulate the Wesnoth team for making a great game. ;) IIRC freeciv's objective was a port to linux and to have a public server where people can find random people to play with. And they have succeeded that. Most of Freeciv's players are linux users anyway, thats why...

I theorize that freeciv has half the player base because: a] It's essentially a clone/rip-off of an existing game. Many people just ... play civilization instead. Wesnoth is its own game. Since when did that stop people from playing Warcraft? ;) It is a mere clone of Dune II after all. b] It uses t...