OpenTTD 13.4 Released

https://www.openttd.org/news/2023/07/29/openttd-13-4

by jandeboevrie • 3 years ago

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compilator1• 3 years ago

So, 5 fixes in total... And this should be in HN why?

johannes12343212• 3 years ago

Because people vote it up?

And because OpenTTD often gets a positive recognition here.

MrGilbert• 3 years ago

The amount of fixes itself does not say anything about the importance or complexity of a release.

TylerE3• 3 years ago

If you actually read the change log it’s very very minor stuff.

TylerE3• 3 years ago

I agree. This is essentially trivia - and I’m saying that as someone who’s played opened for years.

Now posts about complex signaling and a station layouts? That’s interesting.

A minor point release with zero new features, only a few minor bug fixes? Not interesting.

hulitu2• 3 years ago

Because they didn't revrite it completely after 1 year.

sgt• 3 years ago

Time for a fork written in rust, right?

colonwqbang2• 3 years ago

Some HN users habitually repost software release announcements to HN, whether there is anything notable about them or not. And other people upvote it.

Personally I think such posts should be off-topic for HN, unless they come with a bit of commentary or at least something for us to read.

grotorea2• 3 years ago

I feel software release announcements function as a way to "advertise" some relevant software on HN. Why should that be forbidden but Show HN be allowed?

grotorea2• 3 years ago

Because people like this game and release announcements is how things get advertised on the front page.

qwerty456127• 3 years ago

Just to help people who never knew of it to discover it. The same like when people post links to Wikipedia articles about some curiosities every some months. OpenTTD is a masterpiece free game and can make some people happy.

hfkwer• 3 years ago

Easy karma.

Brosper• 3 years ago

Is it fun to work on such a project?

johannes12343212• 3 years ago

I once did some minor patches on the OpenTTD code base, but didn't go far, as I didn't like the code style. (This is no objective critizism, I have an idea where they came from, but just not the style I at that time wanted to deal with for a fun/side project)

I assume the maintainers take pride in it, creating a game which is liked by many is rewarding. Especially if you like the game yourself.

Depending on your day job it can be quite relaxing to deal with other problems.

But if you don't like the genre and don't like the codebase and don't like the people in the community and don't like ... it's probably no fun :) in the end only you can judge for yourself.

One thing is certain: It won't earn you lots of money and it's unlikely to be the reference for a new job. (And therefore takes a work aspect out of it, which to me is good)

matkoniecz• 3 years ago

I had plenty of fun to make an AI for it. My first software project that was used by others. As bonus, it actually worked quite well (called AIAI - Automatic Idiot AI).

Though as a programmer newbie I got confused by race conditions introduced by fact that game may be saved at any time, potentially leaving things in the middle of construction.

I still have plans to get back to it at some point.

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AIs and many other mods were created independently, support for modding was beautiful.

OpenTTD 13.4 Released

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