[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Artistic polish

[Raimar Falke <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 07:56:27PM -0800, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> From: Anthony J. Stuckey [mailto:astuckey@xxxxxxxx]
> >
> >     Frankly, what most open-source games need (including Freeciv) is
> > polish.  Compare, for instance, the Escape Velocity line of games
> > (http://www.ambrosiasw.com) with Vega Strike.
> > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vegastrike/)
> 
> Not really fair, since one has real $$$$$$ behind it and the other
> doesn't.  We could make all kinds of eye candy comparisons between
> Freeciv and Civ III, it's not a basically fair comparison.
> 
> I'm not sure what kinds of open source games can garner the best eye
> candy and production values.  At a guess, I'm tempted to say you'd need
> to be working in a genre that's wildly popular.  People like Civ, but
> tons more people like FPS and RTS games.  I think the few open source
> projects I've seen that had real production values were based on FPS 3D
> engines.

Freeciv can be changed so that it can read the civ3 graphics format
(the original one and the graphics made by 3rd parties).

http://www.wesnoth.org/ is an open source game and has the eye candy.

        Raimar

-- 
 email: rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 "The very concept of PNP is a lovely dream that simply does not translate to
  reality. The confusion of manually doing stuff is nothing compared to the
  confusion of computers trying to do stuff and getting it wrong, which they
  gleefully do with great enthusiasm." 
    -- Jinx Tigr in the SDM