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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2021 8:02:45 GMT -5
For fans of open-sourced retro games with long-running communities, the community for "Dink Smallwood" game (1998) is still alive, although not as active as used to be. I haven't visited it for years I think. Good to see that it survives, even though output of custom content is not at the same rate as before. dinknetwork.comThe game is an ARPG and there is community created mods for it. Mods (installed ones at least) are simply folders with resources and scripts in C-like language (very limited though), pretty accessible even for non-programmers. There are tools to draw maps and shit. It was created by a trio of hackers in 1998, they had to rush it to completion. It was originally neither freeware nor opensource, but became as such later. The ending of the original story features one of creators as the final villain, which parallels Doom II in this regard. If downloading, I think FreeDink is the most stable "port" for all OSes now, the default download leads to Dink Smallwood HD which is rerelease (now several years old) with some additional features like auto-saving or something (I didn't use it, I used the original v1.08 game engine and FreeDink only).
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Post by 40oz on Dec 29, 2021 8:26:34 GMT -5
Those graphics are cool. Neat little website they have there too.
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Post by good-old on Dec 30, 2021 11:07:06 GMT -5
It's always heartwarming to see retro indie games having communities that are still active. Might give that a try.
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