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Re: Nova - How should it be different to Stars! Sun, 28 January 2007 04:44 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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I was going to hijack your thread, but instead I made a new one.

A good idea, I was going to do the same thing myself (see my earlier comments about turning Nova into a SourceForge project). I'll consider this thread "closed" and switch to your new one.
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Ken, I understand what you're saying. Learning C# (I assume you say that "see sharp?") was your #1 objective, and you figured you may as well do so with Stars! Now, objective accomplished. You know how to program in #C (I assume).


Yes, objective accomplished, although I still have a bit to learn about .Net version 2.0 (and version 3.0 is on the way).
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Where are you going from here?


Well, next on my list of things to learn is Microsoft SQL server and I was just going to shut down Nova development. However, I kind of got caught up in Nova and got this strange urge to finish it properly. Like many people, I'm very fond of Stars! and would love to see publicly available code that can be modified and keep the game moving forward.
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Yours seems to be the most advanced of the Stars! clones


A kind comment, thank-you. CraigStars has some good ideas and I have his code which (time permitting) I'm starting to take a look at. Hopefully, we might be able to merge some features from our two projects.
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The programmers working on their individual projects should join together.


The main point is that some of us did not set out to create a Stars! clone. We wanted to learn things and just happened to pick implementing Stars! features as a good way of doing that (as we all happen to be very fond of Stars!). The "official" Stars! clone has always been FreeStars but, just to express a personal opinion, I don't think FreeStars will ever produce anything. People just seem to have lost interest in that particular project.
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Instead of having a bunch of little projects half-finished, why don't the coders work on one single project and get it done?


Well, a quick comment before I switch to your new thread. As I said, none of us started out thinking "I'll make a Stars! clone". We were just playing and trying out ideas. Perhaps it's time for that to change and we should get together and turn this into a "real" project.

However, I did start a separate thread a while ago asking for testers for Nova. I got two replies. So, it would seem that (apart from one or two people) no one is really interested. My Nova web page has had 100 "hits" since I set it up - not a vast amount. As far as I can tell, only 2 people have actually downloaded the code to have a look at the programs.

So, I'll switch to your new thread but, for the time being, my intent is still to use Nova as a test-bed for trying out coding patterns for my personal education.

[Updated on: Sun, 28 January 2007 05:20]

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