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The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help

posted by CoolHand on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the please-don't-let-this-die dept.

tonyPick writes:

The Battle For Wesnoth, a GPL turn based strategy game, is reporting that the project is in trouble and in urgent need of volunteers to help with development.

Wesnoth, as a project, is understaffed. At this time, there are fewer than half a dozen developers working on each new version of the game, and even fewer of them are able to work on the engine itself. We do not collectively have the time or skills to fix bugs as quickly as we should, or implement features as rapidly as we would like. The game itself suffers from an aging codebase and old software. As the gaming industry marches on and even the simplest games become more complex, Wesnoth has begun to feel outdated. Our internal organization is in need of improvement. The long length of the 1.11.x development cycle was caused less by us working on fixes or features than by an inability to successfully do these things in a timely fashion.

To put it bluntly, this ship is sinking.

The project is looking for C++ developers, Python programmers and also maintainers for several of the mainline campaigns.

More background on the game itself is available from wikipedia.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:47PM (#213671)

    Kids growing up and getting jobs :(

    Or getting partners.

    Or getting kids of their own.

    Like my friends, they're suddenly really busy with jobs, partners, kids. There's no going back to the good old times when we met up and had fun. Now we see each other twice a year at best.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:59PM (#213680)

    That is because theyre cuckolds.

    Good Old Boys in the South meet up all the time. They don't let themselves be controlled or cucked.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:30PM (#213689)

      You make it sound like you think being a toothless redneck is a good thing.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:42PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:42PM (#213696)

        Well you can eat all your food thru a straw and you save a fortune on toothpaste?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @10:54PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @10:54PM (#214007)

          That's genius!

          I never considered that!