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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: DukeS on April 01, 2006, 10:31:50 AM

Title: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: DukeS on April 01, 2006, 10:31:50 AM: Is this true? :-\

http://adventuredevelopers.com/newsdetail.php?action=view&newsid=798
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: Rocco on April 01, 2006, 10:42:10 AM: For sure ;D, this are great news ::rock
look at this -> http://www.bigbluecup.com/yabb/index.php?topic=25849.0
but who the hell is Mike Hunt??
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: McCoy on April 01, 2006, 10:55:07 AM: Another great move by the Wintermute Army. I see that finally Chris Jones understood what was best for his life. I suppose the little laser red dot at his forehead also played on this.

Ok, on to the next step of the plan...
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: odnorf on April 01, 2006, 11:18:49 AM: That's it. I'm switching to the fack engine. (http://fack.sourceforge.net/) ::beer
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: Mnemonic on April 01, 2006, 11:48:56 AM: Quote from: DukeS on April 01, 2006, 10:31:50 AM
Is this true? :-\

http://adventuredevelopers.com/newsdetail.php?action=view&newsid=798
Between you and me, it's just a cover for taking over AGS's market and user-base, but we're trying to keep it secret for now.

Quote from: odnorf on April 01, 2006, 11:18:49 AM
That's it. I'm switching to the fack engine. (http://fack.sourceforge.net/)¦nbsp; ::beer
Today AGS, tomorrow FACK...
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: DukeS on April 01, 2006, 12:41:39 PM: Thanks.

Jan, do you plan to make a lot of changes in the engine interface or script language?
If it stays like it is it would be great, becouse WME is simply the best!
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: Mnemonic on April 01, 2006, 01:27:58 PM: Don't worry, the script language won't change a bit ;)
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: odnorf on April 01, 2006, 02:31:40 PM: The problem, as I see it anyway, is that according to Mnemonic & Chris Jones the new AGS/WME adventure engine will have much less features in the first version. A lot of things have to be dropped so that the merge is possible. Ofcourse things will change in the future but that will take at least 9-12 months. :'(
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: Rocco on April 01, 2006, 04:18:24 PM: i guess they'll leave the current engines as they are AGS2.72 and WME1.61,
and build together a new one from scratch.
with the experience of these adventureengine-gods the result must be amazing :-)))
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: TheDerman on April 01, 2006, 05:39:52 PM: Quote
The engine supports only one resolution: your games must be created at 160x100, in state-of-the-art 4-colour CGA graphics.

Sounds like overkill to me - I mean what the heck kinda game is ever going to require that kind of computing power?

I'm not really sure of the benefits of this move at all. ???
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: DukeS on April 01, 2006, 07:24:20 PM: Hmmm...so shold we wait for new merged engine or continue developing with latest stable WME? I'm asking becouse we are working on a serious project and I don't want to have to rewrite whole thing from scratch...Than I better do this ::beer instead :)

Anyway...Happy 1.april!
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: SiriusCG on April 01, 2006, 07:37:46 PM: Hey wait a minute...¦nbsp; sounds more like an April's Fool joke to me... ::)

Cheers!
Title: Re: AGS and Wintermute to merge
Post by: Mnemonic on April 01, 2006, 10:29:32 PM: Yes, of course it was. And so was the Wintermute Army skin for this forum, in case someone didn't notice :)