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External Since: Mar 23, 2005 Posts: 96

On 2007-12-09 06:20:12, bbound.RemoveThis@gmail.com wrote:

> On Dec 8, 3:49 am, andrewdoull wrote:
> > Looking at the Angband variants with the most active forums: it appears Furyband
> > is maybe four times larger, Portralis probably a third smaller...
>
> Portralis? WTF is Portralis? This is the first I've heard of it, and I
> read every post in this newsgroup religiously, even though I mostly
> lurk these days. I should therefore know of every variant with any
> degree of currency.

I don't follow this reasoning. Reading every post in the
rec.games.roguelike.angband community does not necessarly equate to perfect
knowledge of every variant. I'm curious what makes you think that would be the
case.

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External Since: Mar 25, 2005 Posts: 615

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:36:16 +0000 (UTC), VALIS <valis.DeleteThis@oook.cz> wrote:

>Look at successful shareware authors, people who code there own freeware. You
>don't see the creators of dwarf fortress bitching about whether or not it's
>worth their time, Nor T. Biskup, nor the author of Fastcrawl. Mostly they are
>too busy fsking coding and, oh, I don't know, say, giving interviews about their
>successful software to post online whining about their userbase.

Mr. Biskup requested and received quite a bit of feedback in the form of
postcards, so I'm not sure he's a good example of a coder not needing
attention. (He's not bitching about lack of response because he gets
plenty.)

>How is it other people's responsibility to motivate you? I know you're
>(probably) generation Y and everything, but this seriously isn't how things get
>done IRL. Check with any local authors, or anyone in a low paying creative
>field. They aren't doing it for the kudos. Code and books are being written
>without their authors being praised.

True. As far as I know, I'm the only one who has played the last Gumband
release, but I haven't given up on it. Counterpoint: most creative
people have multiple projects and if one of them starts to generate
extrinsic rewards, whether in terms of profit or praise, that project
will tend to get more attention.

>Again, for clarity's sake. Me posting something positive about a game will *not*
>make someone else love it. Only the game can do that.

But it might make them aware the game exists, or to make the effort to
try it if they already know about it but haven't bothered. And that
gives the game the *chance* to earn that person's love. It never gets
that chance if they never try the game in the first place.

Regarding Unangband: I took a look at it in response to some articles
Andrew has been posting on r.g.r.development. I find the dungeons garish
and at least the early ones are tedious to move through because rooms
and corridors are frequently designed so they cannot be run through. I
have not found any feature that hooks me and makes we want to play the
game more. Also, while I start the game with a torch equipped, when I
enter the dungeon, I must still take the action of wielding a torch
before my surrounding cease to be nothing but gray "x"s.

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