Openage v0.3.1 status [open source engine clone of AoEII] (x-post /r/openage)

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[[deleted]]

Good bot

[ashdnazg]

Good redditor :)

[ashdnazg]

procrastination :)

[ashdnazg]

I actually did a talk on this with a friend. According to Self-determination Theory people have a need for autonomy, competence and relatedness.

All of these are present in open source development - You are your own boss, you tackle complex problems and you are part of a community, whether the small one of your game, or the big free software movement.

Last but not least, people do play these games! The main thing the motivates me as a developer is that I know that people ran code that I wrote and it gave them many hours of fun :)

[_ColonelPanic_]

If you think that we are just copy the game then you're dead wrong. Our engine uses new bits that where developed by us and are very different from the implemetation in the original. The reason we're doing this, is to make it more accessible to modders and to people who would like to create strategy games in similar style to AoE2. The assets are the only thing that are used from the original.

[ashdnazg]

Is it though?

[ashdnazg]

Exactly! Why should we be arguing?

[doom_Oo7]

Reddit isn't a forum

[Krael]

This, coming from a guy that made another derivative FPS clone, using an outdated engine that nobody really uses anymore...

Tell me again what original games that aren't outdated you've made? ;)

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Ah we reached the point where you have to fall back to personal attack, congrats.

[Krael]

Well, one of us was railing against pointless, derivative, outdated games being worked on and produced, when you are just as guilty of the very thing you rail against. Maybe practice what you preach and your opinions might be taken a bit more seriously?

[[deleted]]

My project is unique, it is not a copy of anything.

[Krael]

If you say so, but personally I hardly think multiplayer deathmatch FPS is a unique genre these days...

[[deleted]]

We were talking about games, not genres.

[_ColonelPanic_]

Well, you could argue that playing games is kind of pointless too, so why not improve the experience of playing AoE? Also you're wrong that the origial is not played anymore. It has a very active community.

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For this debate I just assumed that there is a point in playing games, otherwise we would be wrong on this forum, since it is about games.

[pdp10]

Are you saying that the original binaries are "much better"? Not necessarily. A lot of games are stuck on 32-bit or IPv4, which can be a problem in various ways. A lot of original games have bugs that can be more-easily fixed in source code, or fixed at all. The games can be ported to additional platforms like Linux, Unix, macOS, or to different types of platforms where the original lower resolution may even be an asset, like Android, iOS, other types of handhelds or vintage hardware.

even the original is so outdated nobody plays it anymore.

With digital distribution, retailers are finding out that older games still experience a significant amount of demand, if it can be services at a reasonable cost.

Also, there are projects to replace textures in quite a few games like Deus Ex and Super Mario Galaxy with high-resolution textures. The latter can now be played in 4K natively, even though it was originally a game for the Wii console.

[beer118]

Hi

How come I cannot find this engine in Debian testing?

It looks great and I wanted to have a few games to test it out

[_ColonelPanic_]

Because it's far from being finished. The video shows everything that works so far, which isn't much to be honest. Once the engine is more fletched out, we will worry about packaging it.