Show whole topic May 07, 2008 8:33 pm
gabba Offline
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Subject: Re: I really like this project!
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Thank you very much gabba and welcome to the bbs. Your feedback means a lot to us Smiling
Thanks for your warm welcome :).

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I was until now against advertising since the source still sucks and TCP/IP doesn't work yet (we make great progess on this however and hope to release a new version having basic skirmish avaible). You're free to spread the word of course. But we'd need testers and hackers to help out, not players who would abaddon us frustrated soon since M.A.X.R. is not in a playable stat right now.
Ok, I get it: posting on happypenguin.org would probably be a waste of time, seen in that light. However, I can post some "Testers/Coders needed" threads on select development forums that I participate in.

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- I found a french M.A.X. remake called U.M.A.X.. It's incomplete and has some very basic form of AI. Development has stopped a few years ago. However, since it's also GPL (cross-platform, written in SDL/OpenGL) some code sharing would be possible; another interesting thing is that it uses it's own graphics for the map, buildings and vehicles, so that could be a base for a free graphics packages, until someone comes up with art that matches more the original style.
Hey, I did not know about that. Probably because it's just on french. They are GPL and have alternate graphics? Now that are good news. Really good news. I'll dig into this project later. Perhaps we can use their graphics as alternate set bringing MAXR forward. Also their netcode could be interesting.
Please stick around Wink

Here is a screenshot of U.M.A.X.:

Unfortunately they don't have netcode - I don't even think they had working hot-seat yet? Which could be why the project never took off. Anyways, I hope you can use the graphics.

I do intend to stick around, and possibly hack into the code! Hopefully language won't be too much of a barrier.