Invitation to gaming festival

SuPeRTaRD · Post by **SuPeRTaRD** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:24 pm

Update on times available for discussion:

7:30-9:30PM Friday
10:30PM and after Saturday
3PM-4:30PM Sunday

What's good for you?

Ratchet

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after 10:30 on saturday is good for me, or anytime

i just plan on saying that its a cool game & easy to edit & mebbe have some examples to show installed on the machine i take to the lan party

just to give it some exposure

it would be nice if u coudl spend a little time there playing me so ppl could see how nice the gameplay is, i'm gonna have a gamecube there too

blah

n54 · Post by **n54** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:12 am

SuPeRTaRD wrote:Lucifer, i emailed Ratchet a link to this thread & told him a little about you & me. I thinks U should sign up & speak or somethign, might pique some nifty persons interest in deving the worlds coolest opensource cross-platform game.

Amen to that!

Is there anything the rest of us can help out with?

SuPeRTaRD · Post by **SuPeRTaRD** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:25 pm

I'm scheduled to speak about it saturday after 10:30pm

if you wanna join me, or replace me, or whatever lemme know

i'm just gonna do a short thing & show some of the graphcis mods & hexatron..

or if any of the higher ups want to prepare me a speech, ill read it ;p

Post by **Tank Program** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:58 pm

"Deving Armagetron is like eating pizza. It's great to eat pizza sometimes, but if I ate nothing but pizza, I'd go mental." - The forums admin

Or, er, maybe just make your own thing up...

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:37 pm

"Don't touch it, it'll break!" would be my overall assessment of the current coding structure. I'm glad none of you listens to me

It's your talk, put into it whatever you like. I'm short on time this week, but if you need specific information ( for example, if you want to spend a minute on AA's historty ), I'll help.

SuPeRTaRD · Post by **SuPeRTaRD** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:35 pm

sure, a brief history woudl be great!

i remeber i had archived a 4 player unix/linux lan playable lightcycles game

a LONG LONG LONG Time ago..

then i mentioned it once in a chatroom & a linux user told me about armagetron

blah..

dunno if thats the same game ^^^^

SuPeRTaRD · Post by **SuPeRTaRD** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:13 pm

update:

lucifer might go *& bring a server*
eggcozy might go *& bring server*
tankprogram might present via teleconfrence

lucifer & egg, try to come, i will get ya in free, or ill pay yer way

my presentation is sometime after 10:30pm on saturday night

but i'll be there friday-sunday

Post by **Tank Program** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:00 pm

SuPeRTaRD wrote:tankprogram might present via teleconfrence

By tele he means web and by present...

I'll have to think of something to say... Or maybe just an open Q&A session...

n54 · Post by **n54** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:42 pm

don't be nervous people, just have fun, talk about why(/what) you like (in/with) the game etc.

and if neccesary brag a bit

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 10:40 am

Short history of Armagetron:

Jan 2000: First version published as "Walls". No AI, no sound, no network. Just two player splitscreen mode.

Feb 2000: Renamed to Armagetron ( please don't look up any movie charts of that time.... )

Mar 2000: First version with crude networking

May 2000: Moved project to SourceForge

June 2000: First "official" Armagetron tournament at the "Ruhrpott-Ruler", a local LAN party

( Things start to move more slowly now because of RL )

Mar 2002 - May 2003: first long development pause

June 2003: Version 0.2.0 released ( The earliest version with network compatibility until today ), master server goes online

Sept 2003 - Jan 2005: second long development pause, AA gets forked because z-man plays dead

( You probably know the rest better than me, like the release of 0.2.7.0 )

Hmm. Even in this condensed form, this history is boring

Perhaps Tank or others could shed a little light on how AA was "forked"? This may be interesting because it involves people

I only know that it exists and that I'm part of it now, that's enough for me.

Post by **Tank Program** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:20 pm

z-man wrote:Perhaps Tank or others could shed a little light on how AA was "forked"? This may be interesting because it involves people I only know that it exists and that I'm part of it now, that's enough for me.

Dec 2003: I start playing on Mixnetwork's speed server. It became very popular then, and I had just written my Armagetron Stats thing in Java. So, I suggested he run it for his users. And he did, for awhile. Then introduce iF. We got to talking, introduce the idea for an online community.

Dec 18 2003: Introduce the forums, still at the same url today as they were then. (Albeit different server hardware & ips...) E-mails were sent to various server admins. Within a day Verement responds, and places an add in his server's (Armagoshdarn) between round messages. Without this exposure, I'm afraid the place woulda never gotten off the ground.

The following months: We continue to grow here... At the urgings of iF, I start to tinker in the code. And you know what? I found some interesting things to mess with

. After trying with Marrow to set up our own CVS server for what was becoming quite a lot of code changes. HUD, remote admin, minor bugfixes, we decide to go for a sourceforge projects after debating a takeover. We decided on a new projects as we wanted to keep the original armagetron project in its glory

.

So basically, we're here cause of the above events. Or, at least that's how I seem to remember it...

SuPeRTaRD · Post by **SuPeRTaRD** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 7:35 pm

thx for the info

I'm there.. there is no internet access there so a remote is unlikely tank, sorry

there were several armagetron players tho, but they're having a lil' network problem ... hope they fix that soon

lucifer, or egg, feel free to try to show up, i can prolly get u in free, just say you're helping show the indie game "armagetron"

i'm gonna have 5 tiddie dancers there tomorrow night

eggcozy · Post by **eggcozy** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:53 am

I just got off of work and I dont' think I'll be heading down ... 3 hours just seems too far right now.

Good luck though. Wear deoderant and bush your teeth (since you are representing us)

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:07 am

Well, my wife just laid on a carnival at my daughter's school tomorrow.

(I don't like elementary school carnivals) So I have to go to that, and turn in a paper for Monday, and studystudystudy.

Why couldn't they hold out until late May and catch all the college kids too?

SuPeRTaRD · Post by **SuPeRTaRD** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:22 pm

dunno mang, there will be others

a few new ppl were exposed to armagetron

i gave a little graphics mod preesntation for it on a projector

and we played it some a few of us, (not as much as i had hoped for)
& ppl got to see the gameplay on the wall projector while we played

it was pretty small tho, they coulda advertized better

some casemodder walked away with about $1500 worth of prizes tho

he had a neat mini form watercooled custom thinga-ma-jig

blah

might get to play/show some more armagetron tomorrow , gotta go catch a few hours sleep

l8r