Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Aiming for 1.0

[Richard Kettering]

On May 28, 2005, at 9:26 AM, David White wrote:

> Richard Kettering wrote:
>
> > However, I'd like to have something that I'd be proud to show off in 
> > the years down the road, rather than something people sneer at, as 
> > they do now.
> > Thus I am happy to continue forging as much as I can over the coming 
> > months - I have a lot of free time in the next few months.
>
> I'm afraid I really don't understand.
>
> How are any of the changes that have been suggested over the next few 
> months going to change the game so much that people who currently 
> sneer at it are instead impressed?

Walking animations and a scriptable sprite engine would do it.
Guess who wants to do the work on those:   me.

> Usually people who sneer at a game like Wesnoth do so immediately upon 
> seeing it because they think it has poor and/or archaic graphics and 
> perhaps sound. Polishing things off, adding a few more animations and 
> units, and so forth isn't going to change this as far as I can see.

You're right - polishing it off won't do much.  I'm talking about the 
addition of some major, groundbreaking features, features I wish we had 
had in the game long ago.
I know precisely what it is that makes us inferior to most other 
sprite-based games, and it is how incredibly static our game looks.
This can be dealt with in a number of ways.

You're also dead right that our sound is horrible - another department 
I wouldn't mind taking a swing at, as this would not be the only FLOSS 
game that would benefit from such efforts.

> David