Re: Looking for free pbem.

From: Gosztolya Gabor <h633243@sirius.cab.u-szeged.hu>

Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000

On Wed, 5 May 1999, MindShift Design LLC wrote:
> Also note that Atlantis upon which the game is based used to be commercial and
> is now free, so does that make the game a contender for the commericial or the
> free 'hall of fame' ?

Quote from the Lorenai page:
"Lorenai is very similar to another PBM game - Atlantis. I retake very
large parts of rules of Atlantis and code new game based on these
rules." So the whole game (I guess even the #include lines <g>) is coded
by him.

(BTW Atlantis 1.0 was (and is) a free game. Always, and 2.0 (which Lorenai
was based on) was a free game too, although the source was not public. So
I really can't imagine how can't Lor* be a 100% free game, even in the
design.

But: you're right. It's not common to put such a big effort into a free
game. It happens, but it isn't common.)

> "commercial games tend to have a lot
> more product development and programming time put into them as well as more
> resources and finances to develop a final end product".

Ghosty

References

Re: Looking for free pbem.
MindShift Design LLC <jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com>
Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Looking for free pbem.
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Looking for free pbem.
MindShift Design LLC <jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com>
Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000