Suspending Neoband development, probably for good

[Therem Harth]

Yep... Sorry.

The problem is simple:
- The Vanilla codebase is not amenable to easily doing what I want
- I no longer have the free time to wrestle with it
- I have exhausted the current game's possibilities and no longer find it entertaining

Hey, it's not like it had a major fan base anyway.

I may try to cobble together another (hopefully better) variant, or maybe not. Depends a lot on how much time I have. I am working rather long hours at the moment, and like to fill up my off time with things a bit more socially relevant than computer games... But we will see.

In any case, the source code will stay up on Gitorious:

https://gitorious.org/neoband

in case anyone wants to fiddle around with it. Have fun!

[klassik]

* goes to Gitorious*

*puts neoband on hardrive*

[Nick]

The usual yardstick for variant success is if someone else plays it besides the maintainer, so you were successful

I may try to cobble together another (hopefully better) variant, or maybe not.

The aim is for post-restructure Angband to be very variant-friendly if you do ever want to have another go. Caramelfudgeband, maybe.

[klassik]

unix?

boo hoo.

*looks for win7 version*

*puts 0.5.0 on hard drive*

[Therem Harth]

FWIW it's easy to compile on Windows:
- Install MinGW with MSys: http://mingw.org/
- Open the MSys terminal and cd into the game's directory
- Run './configure' and 'make'
- Wait a few minutes for compile to finish, move the executable out of the src directory, and run it

You can also commit to Git from a Windows machine, using MSysGit: http://msysgit.github.io/
That's a bit awkward last I tried, but it works.

[Therem Harth]

Well, twenty days later I've got some new ideas and some free time, so I'm gonna do a bit more work on it. Let's see how this goes...

Edit: N/M. Neoband is really not amenable to adding much in the way of new stuff. I think bookless casting was about as far as I could go with V, given my current programming skills.

Edit 2: one more try dammit. Let's see what I can do if I try to be fiendishly clever.

Edit 3: I give up. This code is too gnarly.

[Nick]

Thanks for inviting us into your stream of consciousness, anyway

[HugoVirtuoso]

Edit 3: I give up. This code is too gnarly.

Maybe talk to Nick about this, especially since he's on the forefront of Vanilla Angband?