For Phobos Times please prod Tavana! (actually give him some encouragement folks!)
Whoops, I forgot to put stuff here.
I'd imagine the DiabloRL update is enough for a new one. If Tavana is looking for ideas on things to add:
- Mortem of the month, handpicked by Kornel, or Blade/Dervis if they're still around somewhere. You could also have such mortems permanently unlocked for immortality. (I'd probably go with Fanta Hege's Strongman Plat for this one, even though it was last month.)
- Some screenshots from the Screenshot thread would fill out the whole news post with some shinies. People love the screenshots (will be better with graphics, but regular players will understand 'em just fine).
- I suppose having some kind of strategy/tactic section would be cool, but that's a bit of extra work. I wouldn't mind contributing in that regard, and you're free to edit anything I'd submit (being the wordy bastard that I am).
When you posted the Badge Guide in the last one and I didn't update the thing for a couple months, I felt bad about that. With ANY luck it'll be done by the end of the year, or at the very least every badge. I'm currently considering some challenge/badge ranks for how easy or difficult they are individually.
As for DoomRL the current situation is simple:
1) cleanup of the codebase, and the modding API
2) graphical tiles
Except that, only minor features are planned. All the big things are planned for DoomRL 2 of which development has (slowly) started. No idea of an estimate of a expected release date though...
I'm most curious about how the graphical update is coming along. I remember seeing
this post a while back, so: are the tiles complete enough to warrant implementation? If so, what kind of priority is the implementation getting? Bug fixes are probably more important (and I'm SURE there are going to be a bazillion bugs with the graphics if you aren't as meticulous as possible) but that was two years ago, so I guess I'm just wondering if the graphical addition is one of those huge projects that no one really feels like doing.
I have a friend in particular who really can't stand ASCII but would almost certainly play with the graphics. Unfortunately, it's the less important stuff (to us old-schoolers) that can stimulate a game's fanbase.
