| 2 Feb 2023 |
 ..#6626 | Ah, interesting. Yeah, I've seen there's like a whole series of these Open* engines | 21:17:11 |
 urm (uramer) | ArxLibertatis too | 21:17:22 |
| ..#6626 | I guess OpenArcanum didn't do so well https://gogetfunding.com/openarcanum-a-steampunk-rpg-game-revival/ | 21:18:24 |
 Weathdel#9538 | OpenTTD, OpenRCT, and OpenRA are doing pretty well for themselves too | 21:19:02 |
| Weathdel#9538 | I read through the wikipedia list of open source game recreation projects though, and there are a llot of half-finished ones | 21:19:21 |
| ..#6626 | Yeah, it's just hard to finish things... like, that's a real skill in and of itself. | 21:20:44 |
| ..#6626 | Unrelated, but I've always been a little surprised more wasn't done with the idtech engines, given they were open source and obviously pretty capable. | 21:21:46 |
| ..#6626 | Oh, OpenRA can play Dune? That game looked so cool when a friend was showing it off back in the day, never got to play it though. | 21:23:31 |
| ..#6626 | Of course, there's the issue of it not being sold anywhere | 21:24:30 |
| ..#6626 | An OpenNeverwinterNights would be pretty cool | 21:25:34 |
| Weathdel#9538 | honestly, having dabbled in modding both games, OpenTTD rivals this project in terms of having to put up with really weird scripting formats | 21:26:30 |
| Weathdel#9538 | https://newgrf-specs.tt-wiki.net/wiki/Main_Page | 21:26:31 |
| Weathdel#9538 | because chris sawyer | 21:27:49 |
| ..#6626 | Oh, yes, I too love it when my function names are numbers. | 21:29:16 |
| Weathdel#9538 | the sprite format is executable | 21:29:18 |
| Weathdel#9538 | this is bytecode | 21:29:23 |
| Weathdel#9538 | half of it is undocumented because modders use a custom language that compiles into this | 21:29:47 |
| ..#6626 | Ah, ok, I guess that makes more sense | 21:30:03 |
| Weathdel#9538 | then most modders don't even bother with that and write an interpiler to that language | 21:30:12 |
| Weathdel#9538 | because it's somewhere between calculator BASIC and assembly | 21:30:28 |
| Weathdel#9538 | https://newgrf-specs.tt-wiki.net/wiki/ActionD for when you need your sprite loader to be turing complete | 21:32:30 |
| ..#6626 | ... Why? | 21:33:18 |
 Evil Eye#5105 | Unlimited power | 21:40:06 |
| ..#6626 | Call me closeminded, but there are certain things sprites shouldn't be doing | 21:41:21 |
| Weathdel#9538 | what do you mean, it makes total sense that sprites should have internal registers for storing the amount of resources stockpiled in a factory | 22:38:13 |
| Weathdel#9538 | and embedded VM code to govern production rates, conditional terrain-responsive variant sprites, and rules for valid placement | 22:41:10 |
 nelsson#8630 | Whoo I've always wanted to play Gothic series (on linux) | 22:59:41 |
 Quote#8404 | wareya#5775
why does the CS not have a "sew" tool? Quoted by @​AnyOldName3#5223 from #openmw-cs | 23:02:54 |
 AnyOldName3#5223 | nelsson, can you cover that question? | 23:03:06 |
| AnyOldName3#5223 | I know you've answered it before, so presumably know the right things to search to link a past answer. | 23:03:50 |
