This game will always hold a special place in my heart. Back when I was 17 I got hospitalized (nothing serious or life-threatening) for a couple of months and back then I didn't have internet everywhere or a smartphone to keep me company. My parents had brought my laptop to me but having no internet was really really boring. I had Linux installed but, alas, in 2006-2007 there weren't many Linux games to keep me company. Luckily after some time I remembered I had downloaded this "Wesnoth" game a few months before, so I started playing it.
Boy, it was a blast, for weeks and weeks I played all the scenarios and campaigns and I got really good at it. Every now and then I go back to it even today, just to play a few scenarios.
I met the main developers at Fosdem this year and they are great people, they are doing an amazing job with this game. Kudos to them.
I met those guys at fosdem as well some years ago. It was a small game-dev room, they stayed through all the presentations having their miniature hack-session throughout the whole time :-)
It was great. Remember that one of them had a great presentation about importance of designing their game in data and not in code, to allow non-developers to participate.
Were you stuck in a hospital bed all that time without any chance to go out, see your friends, breathe fresh air or even eat food properly?
I managed to read around 10 books in the first week I was hospitalized, my parents didn't know what to provide me anymore because I just tore through every piece of literature I could find.
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This game will always hold a special place in my heart. Back when I was 17 I got hospitalized (nothing serious or life-threatening) for a couple of months and back then I didn't have internet everywhere or a smartphone to keep me company. My parents had brought my laptop to me but having no internet was really really boring. I had Linux installed but, alas, in 2006-2007 there weren't many Linux games to keep me company. Luckily after some time I remembered I had downloaded this "Wesnoth" game a few months before, so I started playing it.
Boy, it was a blast, for weeks and weeks I played all the scenarios and campaigns and I got really good at it. Every now and then I go back to it even today, just to play a few scenarios.
I met the main developers at Fosdem this year and they are great people, they are doing an amazing job with this game. Kudos to them.
I met those guys at fosdem as well some years ago. It was a small game-dev room, they stayed through all the presentations having their miniature hack-session throughout the whole time :-)
It was great. Remember that one of them had a great presentation about importance of designing their game in data and not in code, to allow non-developers to participate.
Isn't life strange. I had to wait over 15 years for my computer to be connected to the internet and somehow I managed.
Were you stuck in a hospital bed all that time without any chance to go out, see your friends, breathe fresh air or even eat food properly?
I managed to read around 10 books in the first week I was hospitalized, my parents didn't know what to provide me anymore because I just tore through every piece of literature I could find.