How did you find out about Wesnoth?
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Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
I was looking for other strategy games for Debian (I was playing warzone2100 back then), so I looked at the "similar packages" and saw a package named "wesnoth"
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found it through stumble upon.
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We might have to add a new option: iTunes link through Wesnoth for iPhone, pretty soon.
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Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
Can't you read, there's on there already...
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Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
While this thing is being corrected:
Shouldn't "Debian APT or Gentoo Portage" be made more generic? That way there would be less "other" votes. For instance, I found Wesnoth as an RPM via the Fedora package manager. I suggest the term "Via Linux Distribution" to cover any kind of distro's package manager. Otherwise, everyone who doesn't use Debian or Gentoo will vote "other" when it's basically the same thing. I see a bias in the second- or third- most-popular distro and one of the most popular package types being excluded while very obscure methods that will only get a handful of votes are included (I don't think Freshmeat and SDL had more than a handful of votes before the reset). Besides, the current wording might get some Ubuntu or Debian users to vote "other" out of confusion.
(If not, at least include "RPM" as an option?)
P.S. Two other obvious omissions: Sourceforge and Gna.
I'd also suggest Linux Game Tome be moved above Freshmeat since it's probably going to be one of the most popular options. Here's a proposed rewording/reordering to make the order more logical and the wording more consistent (for instance, using the full url everywhere instead of in some places):
Hopefully that should get rid of a lot of "Other" votes by clearing up any possible confusion and thus make the poll more useful. (You could even remove a few of the more obscure websites that would probably only get a few votes each.)
Shouldn't "Debian APT or Gentoo Portage" be made more generic? That way there would be less "other" votes. For instance, I found Wesnoth as an RPM via the Fedora package manager. I suggest the term "Via Linux Distribution" to cover any kind of distro's package manager. Otherwise, everyone who doesn't use Debian or Gentoo will vote "other" when it's basically the same thing. I see a bias in the second- or third- most-popular distro and one of the most popular package types being excluded while very obscure methods that will only get a handful of votes are included (I don't think Freshmeat and SDL had more than a handful of votes before the reset). Besides, the current wording might get some Ubuntu or Debian users to vote "other" out of confusion.
(If not, at least include "RPM" as an option?)
P.S. Two other obvious omissions: Sourceforge and Gna.
I'd also suggest Linux Game Tome be moved above Freshmeat since it's probably going to be one of the most popular options. Here's a proposed rewording/reordering to make the order more logical and the wording more consistent (for instance, using the full url everywhere instead of in some places):
Spoiler:
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Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
I have seen it in Debian APT but have installed actually afted an article in LinuxFormat magazine.
Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
I found it on the Mac OS X software page at apple when a new version came out. I think it was 0.8, or else 1.0.
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Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
I found battle for wesnoth by searching "free pc games " on google and the only reason why i tried it despite the low quality graphics, was because back then i swore that i remembered playing it as a kid. It turns out I had never played battle for wesnoth before but im glad i gave it a shot, its a pretty awesome game.
Now if only my friends would shut up about the graphics and just try it.
Now if only my friends would shut up about the graphics and just try it.
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Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
LOW QUALITY GRAPHICS???
Dude. The graphics in this game are some of the highest quality you can find in open source games. Pixel art is a very hard style of art, and people spend hours on end drawing for this game. I'm sure there will be some real artists to tell you off.
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Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
Honestly. Try drawing a sprite. You'd be amazed at how bad at it you are.Warmaster4z2 wrote:I found battle for wesnoth by searching "free pc games " on google and the only reason why i tried it despite the low quality graphics, was because back then i swore that i remembered playing it as a kid. It turns out I had never played battle for wesnoth before but im glad i gave it a shot, its a pretty awesome game.
Now if only my friends would shut up about the graphics and just try it.
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Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
There is something incredibly funny in this sentenceuncleshelby wrote:LOW QUALITY GRAPHICS???Dude. The graphics in this game are some of the highest quality you can find in open source games.
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The fact that it's nearly as insulting as the statement it replies to?
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Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
I first learned of Wesnoth when using Linux 8.04 a couple of years back. I was looking for a decent RPG and ended up here. A lot has changed since then (1.4 version if I remember correctly). From then on, I followed the forums, always got the latest version on my dad's windows and kept on playing add-ons and campaigns. I'm not that good of a player, but I love the game.
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Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
I found Wesnoth on some waaaaaay outdated website (the name of which I do not remember) that hosted free games for OS X. IIRC the version I downloaded was pre-1.x, although v1.4/1.5 were available at that time on http://www.wesnoth.org (the older package presented a more appealing download size though, so that's what I played for the first three months
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Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but it seems like 80% of the free games I've played have very incomplete graphics sets, and Wesnoth is just much more complete. OK, you can stop listening to me now.
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