Sorry for the news spam, I’ve combined all the posts into one to clean it up. Anyways here are the final results of the Extra Life weekend stream, for those that missed it.
Total stream time: ~20 hours
Total donations: $200
Day 1 recordings, featuring various DOS games and X-COM: Terror From The Deep nightmares:
Day 2 recordings, featuring various DOS games and the less popular X-COM games – Alliance, Interceptor, Enforcer:
Highlights:
Extra Life is a video game marathon where gamers all around the world play games for 24h in order to raise money to support children’s hospitals. Last year we played a bunch of OpenXcom and raised a bunch of money and it was pretty cool, so I figured we’ll do it again this year!
However I am still terrible at planning things out, so take all of this with a grain of salt:
Here’s my Extra Life page where you can read more and donate at any time, and here’s my Twitch.tv page where I’ll be streaming. I recommend registering to Twitch so you can subscribe to be notified when I go live, and hang out in chat with all the cool kids (if you have trouble with the website, you can use their IRC).
Yes, we know the Mod Portal is down. No, it’s not just you, it’s down for everyone. You can stop telling us about it. There is literally nothing we can do about it. The mod site is unofficial, run by a third-party, is completely outside our jurisdiction and we can provide no support whatsoever. The same goes for mods in general.
In the meantime you can use the forums, all the cool kids hang around there, or so I hear.
Popular Twitch streamer Tornis is currently half way through his 9th season of Xcom, and for this season, he’s made the switch to OpenXcom. As a seasoned alien war veteran, he’s sure to enjoy all the enhancements and improvements. Watch along, have a chat, enjoy watching a master at work, and ask yourself why someone would submit themselves to this kind of torture?
Details of his self imposed rules can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/Season9Rules
By popular request, I’ve moved all the OpenXcom translations over to Transifex. Whether you’re an existing or new translator, you’ll need to sign up on the new website to be able to continue contributing translations to OpenXcom. I recommend starting out as Translators until your language team finds a need for the higher roles.
Note that the Git Builds don’t support the new translation system yet. Do not report bugs from trying to use the new language files with the Git Builds.
Some of the new features compared to the old site:
You can read more in the Transifex documentation. Feel free to use the built-in discussion systems or the Translation forum to work things out with other translators.
OpenXcom is old. It might not look it, after all, it’s only been around for like… 4-5 years? I didn’t remember to write down the exact date (protip: write down the date of all your projects in case they become smash hits). But boy, has technology progressed in those few years. When I started, there was no SDL2. No C++11. No GitHub. Managed pointers were a mere illusion (or I probably just didn’t know about them). A lot has changed in game development, to the point our codebase can look positively arcane to newcomers. I don’t blame you. Every decision at its time made perfect sense, but after a while you start questioning what 5-years-ago you was doing.
So a lot of people ask, how did it all begin? How did we get this far? How does a project like this just happen?
New OSX build is up, this one should solve all the crashes. 🙂 Please let us know if it does (or doesn’t).
http://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/
what great timing!
why not pick up Terror From the Deep while you’re at it? 😉
http://store.steampowered.com/app/7650/
or heck, you can grab the entire series for under 10 bucks, because we all now how much you loved enforcer.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/964/
if you were on the fence before, there’s no excuse now, go get it!