Show HN: Wesnoth – Free, turn-based strategy game
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#2While I don't play anymore, I used to play this game quite often. It is an absolute blast to get a few friends together, hop on a Skype call, and spend the night playing. Glad to see the game is still under development!
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#3The number of contributors is quite impressive: http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Credits
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#4While I don't play anymore, I used to play this game quite often. It is an absolute blast to get a few friends together, hop on a Skype call, and spend the night playing. Glad to see the game is still under development!
I started playing Wesnoth in 2005. Practised 'programming' in WML to make custom maps. There was one I designed called 'DOTW' which was a rip off from DOTA. For a good few weeks it was the most played map in Wesnoth multiplayer. Good times.
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#5I am amazed how long this game has existed and been iterated on. I remember first playing this on linux almost a decade ago.
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#6I love this game. I have not played it in a few years (have not played any games in a few years) but this was my absolute favorite somewhere around 2007-2009. A great amount of careful thought went into this game, and you can tell when you play. Also the width of the community ensures a diversity of scenarios.
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#7I wanted to get into this game, but I seem to remember being turned off by the amount of luck in it. Maybe I should give it another go?
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#8I wish they finished Wtactics, the card game. http://wtactics.org/
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#9This is an amazing game. If you are interested in it's structure, there is a good chapter on it here: http://aosabook.org/en/wesnoth.html
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#10I wanted to get into this game, but I seem to remember being turned off by the amount of luck in it. Maybe I should give it another go?
Definitely. The question of luck is always something which pops up in the forums now and again. The answer is always the same, it was a deliberate choice to have an element of luck, it keeps things interesting and forces your strategies to be more error-prone. Yes, among top-level players, luck may sometimes decide the fate of a game, but that is a price they decided to pay for the results =)