Tremulous Switching To Xbox Live, Exclusively 43
An anonymous reader writes "Darklegion Development and Microsoft have apparently been working on a new version of Tremulous for the Xbox 360. Timbor, project founder and a main developer of Tremulous, said this in a recent announcement: 'What does this mean for you? You will now be able to play Tremulous on Xbox Live with thousands of other gamers, earning achievements and showing off your gaming skill. In the best interest of maintaining a steady and secure Tremulous playerbase, Tremulous is going to be exclusively available for Xbox Live. Existing infrastructure will no longer receive official support. Players who have already been playing for at least three months can apply for a €5/$7 coupon as a show of our appreciation of your enthusiasm so far! What does this mean for the community? Hopefully nothing! While the production of Tremulous switches from its current open source development to a closed source environment handled by the very capable and experienced Microsoft engineers, the efforts of the community will still be valued. In this collaboration we have made it very clear that the Tremulous community is very important to the game, and Microsoft agrees with us on this point. We are confident that this move will not stifle the creative output of the community.'"
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There's now the Game Play Preview release, which is basically a beta version of the game-play changes that will be in the next version.
It's a lot more fun, there have been lots of changes around reducing camping and stalemates, so it's well worth taking a look.
http://tremulous.net/files/ [tremulous.net] <-- download link.
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You should realize by the date, the content in the summery and the fact that there hasn't been a real post on slashdot all day ... that this is yet another April Fools joke.
Disagree (Score:2)
I find it fun, and very addictive. Have you played it long enough to start getting good at it? There's something satisfying about sneaking up sneaking up on some poor human from behind and dretching the back of their head. Or successfully pouncing a human with a goon. Sniping their armory or telenodes as an ad goon. Absorbing a full luci
XNA (Score:2, Flamebait)
Most gamers are switching to PSN, where there are no subscription costs, better exclusives and less jerks.
And no indie games. Nintendo requires a stable business with a dedicated office and prior commercial titles [warioworld.com]; I haven't read anything stating otherwise for Sony. So if a team of developers that work from home want their game on a console, the only way is through Microsoft's XNA environment, and if this were real, I'd bet XNA is why the developers would have chosen Xbox 360. In fact, one of the drawbacks of XNA [pineight.com] can be turned into a positive: it forces a rewrite that solves the issue of copyright on a forked w
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How do you figure it requires a rewrite? Unless its written in something other than C++ ... (I have no clue, haven't bothered to look, just can't imagine any game worth its salt not written in C)
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How do you figure it requires a rewrite? Unless its written in something other than C++
There are a lot of things missing from the /clr:safe version of C++/CLI, such as the entire std namespace. This means no STL, no iostreams, no C standard library, etc.
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Yeah but a PS3 dev kit costs a fucking arm and a leg.
So indies are excluded on price alone. Most people can easily afford a 1-2k dev kit if they want one.
But a 10-20k dev kit? It's out of indie territory.
Do I Smell a Fork? (Score:2)
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For my part, I'm heading down to termulous headquarters to infect the team leaders.
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Quick off-topic trollish overrated question:
The Xbox I bought off Ebay was modded (and banned from Xbox Live). Will it still be able to play legal copies of games like this new Tremulous or Final Fantasy 13?
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April fools? (Score:1, Insightful)
*YAWN* (Score:1, Insightful)
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The joke's on you. I know @BillGates personally and he told me about this weeks ago in a DM.
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That would be funny if you had used your (quote)(/quote) tags properly.
ibeciles shouldn't post
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Wait... (Score:2)
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I just realized that you typed "pinch" while I interpreted it as "punch". I think I would prefer the latter.
In my experience, so would most of the Irish, including the ones in my family. ;)
Too easy (Score:1)
Flash Crashed! (Score:1)
FYI... I just grabbed a random link. No idea what will happen if you follow that.
Obvious. (Score:1)
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A bit obvious. Anyone who knows the contents of the GPL can see right through this.
Tell that to the Nexuiz/Xonotic guys? :)
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Anyone who knows the contents of the GPL can see right through this.
As I mentioned in my other post [slashdot.org], a game ported from Linux to XNA is pretty much a rewrite, and I don't see how the GPL applies to complete rewrites.
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You'll need 5 evos for a rant.
np (Score:2)
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April Fools! (Score:1)
smells... (Score:2)
Is this an AF prank?
I can't imagine an open source project so openly collaborating with Microsoft here...
They backpedaled (Score:2)
From their site:
Dear Tremulous Community,
This is the second time in such a short amount of time that we have a monumentous announcement to make. The overwhelming concern of the Tremulous players has been staggering, we never dreamed that our fans were so loyal to our cause. It brings a tear to my eye remembering the thousands of e-mails we received from players around the world, expressing concern over the future of their beloved game.
We, Darklegion Development, have decided to break off the partnership wit