I hesitate to contribute to this discussion, other than to say that if one is going to go to all the effort to make a rewrite of wesnoth, the end product is kinda lackluster. We already have wesnoth. If one wanted to go to all that effort, I'd suggest making a new project. Ideally, a "sequel" to wesnoth - some game that uses wesnoth's graphical resources, but has some major differences in its basic design.
There's a whole world of possibilities: - a different set of game mechanics. Nothing wrong with the current ones, but frankly, I'd like to try something new. There's more than one "great game design" out there waiting to be played. - a major difference in graphical idioms. I for one would be very interested in a "3d terrain with 2d sprites" tactical/RPG game along the lines of Final Fantasy Tactics or Disgaea. Practically all of our art would be reuseable. - at the least, if one were basically rebuilding the engine from scratch, fix some of our major engine design issues. For example, write the new one with OpenGL, instead of SDL_Image. Again, this is something that for various reasons, it would be best to do for a "new project", because certain people do not want the existing wesnoth project to use OpenGL. It just seems crazy to me to embark on an enormous project to rewrite what we already have in our hands, when that same effort could result in a brand new game. Also, even if you are intending to "replace the whole thing", the best strategy is to do it incrementally, as Dave suggested. Rewrite particular "low-hanging fruit" parts of wesnoth in python, and keep the whole thing in a release early/often state so that people can play with it as you go. Don't try and do a big monolithic effort to rewrite everything at once. It needs to continuously be kicking out useable releases, because not being able to play your own game is motivational suicide, and it's also extremely bad for attracting other developers. _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
