Indy Stone Mod development stops - News at 9
veezee:
Psst...Pescado...anything in Indy you'd like to take for awesome? :o
On a more serious note, it's a shame that they're stopping development on it, because it was a godsend, especially in the early period. No more OAP neighbourhoods. We still have a ray of light to hold onto though, in that AwesomeMod is really beginning to be put to good use with it's Storymode overrides.
Will be interesting to see the direction it will take, should a new team of modders take up the task. If not, RIP Indy.
uknortherner:
Quote from: Motoki on 2009 August 05, 20:01:10
Do they have the Mac digital download for which there isn't a patch available yet or can they just not figure out how to get the patch to work? I really hope it's the former and that people who can code for a fairly complex mod would actually be able to problem solve and figure out a way to patch.
They don't really elaborate except to say that even on a fresh install, the patch won't work (so presumably they must be working with the PC version), but in the thread linked by the OP, Lemmy does point out that they've not had the time to really investigate it further. Another posting further down gives another clue to their abandonment of the mod - namely they've got a big project going on which needs their full attention and they can't spare any more time updating ISM, hence the offer to hand it over to someone who can.
Doc Doofus:
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...and screw you all the people who were unneccessarily rude about the lack of an update, like you were paying us or anything.
That part sounded sincere!
Have they put their source up for download? I'd like to get in on this. I've been playing ISM+AM for a week now, and I have a lot of good ideas about tweaks I would like to make to it.
Motoki:
Quote from: Doc Doofus on 2009 August 06, 00:09:29
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...and screw you all the people who were unneccessarily rude about the lack of an update, like you were paying us or anything.
That part sounded sincere!
Have they put their source up for download? I'd like to get in on this. I've been playing ISM+AM for a week now, and I have a lot of good ideas about tweaks I would like to make to it.
People can be demanding and ungrateful for sure, but when they leave a project unfinished for a significant length of time, especially when it becomes unusable due to a patch, then people are going to grumble. I think a lot of us are kind of spoiled too with Pescado's constant toiling away and frequent updates.
As for a continuation, you know, I like aspects of both ISM and ASM and in other areas I feel like they go to two different extremes (ie too much obvious arbitrary and random events that don't always make sense vs too much of a demand for realism for events I'm never going to see and don't care about; too much spawning and updates vs not enough etc).
We've got a top down and bottom up approach, but what about a middle path or a hybrid?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Motoki on 2009 August 06, 00:23:01
People can be demanding and ungrateful for sure, but when they leave a project unfinished for a significant length of time, especially when it becomes unusable due to a patch, then people are going to grumble. I think a lot of us are kind of spoiled too with Pescado's constant toiling away and frequent updates.
Accept no Kewian-based substitutes!
Quote from: Motoki on 2009 August 06, 00:23:01
As for a continuation, you know, I like aspects of both ISM and ASM and in other areas I feel like they go to two different extremes (ie too much obvious arbitrary and random events that don't always make sense vs too much of a demand for realism for events I'm never going to see and don't care about; too much spawning and updates vs not enough etc).
We've got a top down and bottom up approach, but what about a middle path or a hybrid?
Well, you could actually show up and make suggestions, but I'm not really certain how you can have a "middle" path. Either you take character motivations for actions seriously, or you don't. One results in "demand for realism", as you put it. Other just spews forth totally random shit that happens without any apparent explanation. You really can't have it both ways: Either something happens for a reason, meaning it has to have underlying realistic motivation, or shit just happens for absolutely no reason, because it said so. There's no middle ground to this.
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