[H-GEN] Interest in a Linux game

[Andrae Muys]

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, The Fuzzy One wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:48:32AM +1000, David Jericho wrote:
> 
> > For some time now, I've talked on and off with many members of Humbug, all
> > interested in developing what could be considered a professional quality game
> > for Unix. All are talented in their own way, and I feel, a small group of us
> > could quite easily pull of a game that would make Windows users drool a
> > little. In the windows world, games like Freeciv or nethack, regardless of
> > classic nature, just don't appeal. 
> 
> In the hope that this won't die before conception, like so many humbug
> projects in the past, I thought I'd try and get a bit more discussion going
> :)
> 
> It's a big ambitious to say "let's make a game", and hope to get anything
> concrete out of it.  I think we need something more concrete to work on.
> It would be really cool if several people could jot down their ideas for
> a specific game, and bring them along for discussion, say next humbug.
> 
> I suppose we'd be looking at a requirements document for this first phase,
> not even full-blown specificiation.
> 

Personally I think it goes a little beyond even that.  Brainstorm yes, but
we won't really be ready to make it a project until someone actually sits
down an writes _something_.  I suggest people try writing _something_, no
matter how incomplete and post it somewhere so we can have a look.

Andrae

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