Happy belated 7th birthday Hedgewars!
So, Halloween was Hedgewars' 7th birthday according to unC0Rr.
Yes, he was working on it for almost a year locally before pushing it to a public
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I was hoping we could do a small birthday release, but at this point it will have to be a belated one.
So, after 7 years, what's next for Hedgewars? Well, there's always more to do, and being open source, everyone has their own opinions.
Here are the things going on that I know of.
* Campaign - Hedgewars still needs a campaign. In order to do it properly, a few new Lua functions need to be added to allow keeping track of progress through the campaign. This will also require people to design a campaign story, levels, missions, bosses...
* Android port! Xeli is still working on improving it, but it needs more love and more developers. Do you use Android? Are you a programmer? Help out! This could also probably use help on UI and graphics side, if that's more your thing.
* And of course... always new weapons, modes and features. People keep coming up with endless things they'd like the game to do. Personally I want to try an ice gun next.
* And someday? Web port (still a long ways to go). This one is one that excites me. I think we are finally at the point where Hedgewars could be run in your browser at a decent FPS and with relatively little content to download. Cross-compiled to the web using emscripten, and with supporting tech such as CORS, WebGL, IndexedDB, WebSockets and async AudioAPI. This is a major task since it will require reimplementing the I/O layers, as well as managing a cross-compile in the first place.
Anyway. Happy belated birthday, Hedgewars!
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claymore
Happy birthday! Thanks for all you guys' efforts to make this the best open source game in the world.
rhino
Happy birthday!
betancourt1
Well I'd have to vote for the campaign as it is long overdue as well as with new lua extensions expand as do ideas for new gameplay! Plus with an epic campaign would to me make the game "complete" but also please work on ice gun cause it will be epic!
sheepluva
BioHazardX
happy birthday to hedgewars
glum reaper
Happy birthday to the greatest open-source project ever!
Star and Moon
Happy Birthday Hedgewars!
Cripes I need to make a cake, I'll be right back!
Here, I got one:
peque
Happy birthday and congratulations for this great project!
jiero
Happy birthday
Terrington_Snyde
Happy birthday, Hedgewars!
and may it continue to be an outstanding example of why quality, entertaining games needn't be enormous, closed-source commercial ventures for a long time yet.
Randy
Very Happy Birthday and good luck for the future!
Kiofspa
Looking forward to the future, and the great continued support!
iiiGerardoiii
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEDGEWARS!!!
one of the best turn-based games i've ever played :')
Izack1535
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEDGEWARS!
have a and
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY