[ Closed ] 0.5.0 progress (Page 2 of 5)

I'm not a fan of this hijacking of journal entries to make completly unrelated suggestions, like server start easiness or "boxed versions". Make a new thread in "development general" instead please.

Otherwise now since that derail is happened already... You know instead of "boxed version" there are things like "CafePress". Opening a Shop with your graphics is very easy. Just send them your graphic files. The real stuff is produced on demand, you get a part of the sales... http://www.cafepress.com/ There are no fix costs to pay in advance. So if you want, you can easily do something like this, and people can order their teeworlds t-shirts, mugs or thongs, yes even thongs :-)

OMG ;D you've done a incredible good job man =P looks absolutely awesome well done just go on and hf:D

It's not hard, it's just an awful idea; Teeworlds isn't bloody Winamp. If we had in-game options for everything we've heard people argue about, the config-file wouldn't even fit on a Bluray disc.

That notwithstanding, the concept of implementing graphics tweaks for the sake of satisfying both sides of a debate isn't the philosophy of Teeworlds. We have graphic designers on the team, and they design the game. It's that simple.

I think all this bikeshedding has reminded us why it isn't always wise to share early ideas or prototypes, and that we can't expect people to actually read our posts when there are pictures involved. We've said repeatedly that this is something we're just messing around with, and that you shouldn't take it too seriously. I guess putting it on the forum made it seem more serious than it was, and we apologize for any confusion.

Arent you a bit overreacting there? I mean this is on page 2, and the topic consisted mostly out of derailments. "all this bikeshedding"... come'on... Also are you sure you make the right conclusions?

To go back on the original topic. I like blue coloring most. Since its actually reallity. Things far away are a bit bluer than when they are close. Its the raleigh scattering in the air. But IMHO level designers should still be able to make cave background or other non-blued things, when taking care it the level design foreground is seperated from background.

Team Fortress 2 are nice too 

Some changes might be good but it would be a shame to loose the current individual style of TW.
The other thing to keep in check is CPU use for those people with less powerful computers.

Keep up the good work!

Hello,

First of all, for all the developers, well done for all the work ascomplished so far. Teeworlds is a really funny game, and I really enjoy playing it. I'm looking forward to the 0.5 version, and I have some questions / things to say about it:

- Do you have an idea of the release date?

- If you want my opinion, blur or underlining the front layers would be nice, but it's up to you (I only play with high details off, as i'm a quake / unreal tournament tweak player)

- In my opinion, weapons are good, and we don't need another. I think that a game doesn't need a lot of weapon just "to-have-a-lot-of-weapons-for-trolling-with"

- Consequence of the last thing I said, I hope you'll keep the work in a "pro graming" point of view, as it is now. I mean, when I came to teewolrds, I spent 6 years of pro graming in Unreal tournament series, playing a lot of cups, eurocups, lans, eswc etc. And what i love in teeworlds is that there is no candy features. Only features that make the game playable, with the right tools. It only lacks of little things (maybe not that easy to do) such as voting, buddies, favourite. In game speaking, I really think you have made something balanced and fun.

- Do you plan to add a few new maps? I mean, the two most played maps in dm and ctf are kinda dm2 and ctf2, which are some of your standart maps. In order to make the players play the same maps for competitions etc, maybe you could package the most played & relevant maps and custom maps with the game. Unfortunately, there aren't so much at the moment, and tournaments need map pools - more than one or two maps. I'm not a mapper, so it is hard to criticise, but I think you know the game and physics better than anyone, so you are able to make the best maps.

Well, I hope you'll be able to answer a few of those notes / questions, and if not, that it can help you in your future decisions. Keep on the good work, and don't hesitate to poll the community for difficult decisions, it is always a good idea

Best regards,

Hello again!

I'd like to thank you for your quick answers, it's always a pleasure to speak with reactive people.

1- I'm really pleased to read that you are trying to release the 0.5.0 next week! Hopefully for us you got some vacations, but trya get some rest... it's the purpose of holidays!

2- Yeah I noticed it was only quickly made mockups. and yes, if somehow you wanna add one of those graphics, you should give it a serious testing period. Mostly if you choose bluring things or stuff like that, in order to be sure that players won't have headaches after an hour playing. That would be kinda an issue!

3- I think we all agree with this statement! As I said, adding stuff is dangerous for two main reasons: balance of the game, and keeping only useful stuff. And I think you are well placed to know that the only hook gives loads of stuuf by itself. We haven't discovered yet all we can do with it!

4- I'm glad to see baning here. To be honest, I spend some time on the Monkey Style server (search MS in the browser) kicking some trolls, afk players and nasty campers. This will help admins to keep servers away from some (and hopefully it's a minority) people. In a community game, being smart with everyone is important, this maybe will learn someones to be smarter and clever.

5- So we can expect new map features in future releases? That's great news. I just hope this will stick to the "game spirit", and that the initial flow (fast) of the game won't suffuer from it. What I wanted to add to this "map section" is that I find a lot of mappers forget that this is a fast paced game (thanks to the all mighty hook!), and in my opinion a good teeworlds map allows fast moves (i'm thinking mostly about dm2 central place, and ctf2 in general). Hey this is why this game is so exciting! It is incredibly fast!!

So if I'm correct, this version will fill some backgrounds lack (that's not a critic or something, just, it's hard to have all features in early versions, we all know it), such as votes ban, etc. Good decisions, I'll wait for it every day on!

Best regards,

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Oh and chilly you obviously talk bout AMN1 and 6 when you mentioned the 2 additional maps rite!?
Eve talked bout map pool and my map(s) really are comparable to the stock ones,but again different enough to not be the same! Oh and i would like to buy teeshirts soon too. I hope landil and lappi will take care about this issue, theres nothing to lose than a bit time and money, things we all have enuff of have a nice week.

great goal what you have but
don´t push yourself like that xD we want a bugfree version and u need time to relax too.

i´m looking forward for ur great works

Quick question for the devs:

Will instagib option be implemented in the 0.5.0 servers? Or will it remain a mod?

I'm asking this because I could REALLY use some voting, banning, spam and flood protection etc. on my Instagib servers.

There used to be a mod with all these features, but it proved totally unstable, therefore unplayable.

So my question is: will there be instagib implemented in 0.5.0 servers ?

Wow!

Nxt-Gen TW RULEZ!!!111!!!one1!

I want it!!!!