Making a PC game / starting a game company?

[Ballbarian]

Small world Foodstamp!

It has been quite a while since I looked at 0ad. I used to frequent aiscripters and noted the 0ad forum there. It looked as though the project was dying at that time so I kinda lost track of it. Quite to the contrary, it appears to be progressing nicely.

[Foodstamp]

Ballbarian said:
Small world Foodstamp!

It has been quite a while since I looked at 0ad. I used to frequent aiscripters and noted the 0ad forum there. It looked as though the project was dying at that time so I kinda lost track of it. Quite to the contrary, it appears to be progressing nicely.

Goodstuff

As with any spare time project, there are ups and downs of activity. Staff come and go, but as long as those things are just obstacles to be overcome, and not roadblocks that completely stop progress, eventually the game gets released .

It is crazy fun to play and insanely modder friendly, I can't wait to see what the community does with it .

[Agrajag]

Foodstamp said:
http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/

Hehe, your site looks pretty pathetic with adblock turned on.
It might be because adblock sees "0ad" in all of the urls for all of the images and thinks "0ad! ad! IT MUST BE AN AD! DESTROY IT!".

And yeah, programming computer games is hard to do successfully. I know, I've programmed like 10 of them (and by 10, I mean 100 tenths of games )

[HoneyBadger]

Actually, Gandalf, my initial idea was for a boardgame "world" or "map" (worldmap?) with all the fun props boardgames have, but including in the process a set of expandable cards akin to Magic: The Gathering. So that you could have (purchase) sets of miniature figures for each Nation, and then modify their abilities, cast spell effects, have events, etc. with the cards. Maps, miniatures, and cards, would all be collectable, expandable, hopefully profitable