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PaperclipPerfector  4mo ago (text post)   1717 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 3, 2025

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Did anyone play Battle For Wesnoth as a kid? Open source fantasy strategy game from the early 2000s, which I just found out is still getting content updates to this day.

Most projects like this fall apart within a few years if they ever get off the ground at all. It's the sort of thing that makes me tempted to do a deep dive into the history and organization to learn the secrets of its longevity. Same with openTTD and freeciv, which have even more impressive histories.

The Wesnoth organization has an actual constitution detailing the responsibilities and powers of the various officers and sub-groups, but is it the rules or the men involved that keep it going?

Wesnoth has a place near and dear in my heart as one of the first times I grok'd tactics in a game like this. I was playing a mission and just kept slamming my forces against the enemy with no ability to make headway. I finally realized if I pulled back a bit I could stretch his reinforcement lines out and build up overwhelming force, upon which point I broke through and destroyed him. Was very empowering.

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