Is WM still under development?

[leiric]

In the sense of 'is it still being worked on'? I get the feeling from the forums that the answer might be no, but I'm hoping to get the opposite answer.

[ghen]

the svn is freely available.  You are welcome add to it, fix bugs, etc.

[leiric]

Thanks for the answer! So this means, if I'm reading you correctly, that the original dev team has left the project to its fate. Sad story.

[Dagoth]

Necno (the original singular and main dev) is working on a new project (Birthright) in what free time he has, and is no longer working on WM.
Docclox is on hiatus though he's said that he eventually plans to come back and finish up some things.
I've also been very very busy with other things and had gotten tired of working on WM. However, if I eventually have free time for it and the itch to work on it, which is fairly likely, I may do some further work on the project at some point. So... on hiatus as well.
I can't really speak for the remaining devs (WonderDog, delta224, anondb, Mirroar, myrikhan), but it's been a while since we've heard from one of them.

So... currently, nobody is working on it.

[leiric]

@Dagoth: My thanks for the detailed answer, though I can't say I'm happy to hear it. :S


For years now, I've been playing with the idea of making a game that would be very similar to WM; the main difference being, that it would be done in PHP/MySQL and - obviously,- it would be multiplayer, but its mechanics would be much the same as WM's. Would you have any objections if I took advantage of the ideas in WM and used them in creating this 'WM-online'?


I'm aware that it's open source now, still, I'd like the approval of (at least some of) the original devs.

[Dagoth]

I guess necno would be the main person to ask, but for my part I don't see any problem with it and of course there's the obvious benefit of possibly having a cool new game after a while.

[zartog]

Rather startling, google isn't listing pink petal games anymore when I literally search: "pink petal games",
if it wasn't for the WM wiki page i don't know if i would have been able to get back here.  Odd.  Maybe it's just google search engine acting weird.  Although it did list lots of sites with info about the site, just not the site.  Has this happened to anyone else?  I thought WM was shutdown or something for a few minutes of desperate searching.

[leiric]

I guess necno would be the main person to ask, but for my part I don't see any problem with it and of course there's the obvious benefit of possibly having a cool new game after a while.

Thank you, I will ask him then.

Rather startling, google isn't listing pink petal games anymore when I literally search: "pink petal games",
if it wasn't for the WM wiki page i don't know if i would have been able to get back here.  Odd.  Maybe it's just google search engine acting weird.  Although it did list lots of sites with info about the site, just not the site.  Has this happened to anyone else?  I thought WM was shutdown or something for a few minutes of desperate searching.

I'm glad the wiki helped you at least, there doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm for it around here; I seem to be the only one adding stuff to it. :S

[ShiningRadiance]

Rather startling, google isn't listing pink petal games anymore when I literally search: "pink petal games",
if it wasn't for the WM wiki page i don't know if i would have been able to get back here.  Odd.  Maybe it's just google search engine acting weird.  Although it did list lots of sites with info about the site, just not the site.  Has this happened to anyone else?  I thought WM was shutdown or something for a few minutes of desperate searching.

...Uh-oh.

[DocClox]

For years now, I've been playing with the idea of making a game that would be very similar to WM; the main difference being, that it would be done in PHP/MySQL and - obviously,- it would be multiplayer, but its mechanics would be much the same as WM's. Would you have any objections if I took advantage of the ideas in WM and used them in creating this 'WM-online'?

I'm aware that it's open source now, still, I'd like the approval of (at least some of) the original devs.

Help yourself, as far as I'm concerned. Ideas are free. The setting belongs to necno, so you'd want his OK before you set anything in Crossgate, but everything else should be fair game

[leiric]

Help yourself, as far as I'm concerned. Ideas are free. The setting belongs to necno, so you'd want his OK before you set anything in Crossgate, but everything else should be fair game

Thanks! I already pm'd necno about this, but so far I received no reply; however, I won't have time to seriously begin coding in the next few months anyway. As for the setting, I don't think I will be using it, so this would not be an issue.

[fires_flair]

Rather startling, google isn't listing pink petal games anymore when I literally search: "pink petal games",
if it wasn't for the WM wiki page i don't know if i would have been able to get back here.  Odd.  Maybe it's just google search engine acting weird.  Although it did list lots of sites with info about the site, just not the site.  Has this happened to anyone else?  I thought WM was shutdown or something for a few minutes of desperate searching.   

wow, I just googled the actual address/url, and it didn't even pop up. though there were a lot of sites linking here

[alexpn]

wow, I just googled the actual address/url, and it didn't even pop up. though there were a lot of sites linking here

Google not show all sites in co.cc domain afaik.

[Ctwo]

For years now, I've been playing with the idea of making a game that would be very similar to WM; the main difference being, that it would be done in PHP/MySQL and - obviously,- it would be multiplayer, but its mechanics would be much the same as WM's. Would you have any objections if I took advantage of the ideas in WM and used them in creating this 'WM-online'?

If you do start working on your idea would you drop a few links here? While I'm not a programmer I like to think I have a fairly good head for what will and won't work for game mechanics. I'm sure there are a lot of other people that would be currious too.

[Dagoth]

In regards to the site not showing up in Google:
http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/07/10/google-blocks-co-cc-from-search-results/