Portrequest: Widelands

[mcobit]

This is an Open-Source clone of the game Settlers 2. But it has some optimisations and onlineplay functionality. It is created with lua and SDL.

http://wl.widelands.org/

 

[Hitnrun]

I loved this game so I can make a try, but is this really a "finished" game? I couldn't tell from their status pages.

Well, downloading the windows version to see if it is worth the effort.

 

[Hitnrun]

Just a quick update, it runs on the Pandora, but very slow at 500mhz (~7fps), I was going to release an alpha anyway, but I made a change for it to work on a PND, and it stopped running. Once I found the problem I'll release it, and then try to find out if it is possible to get performance improvements.

 

[mcobit]

Hey, these are good news. As it is build with sdl, maybe the new version can be of any use to gain speed?

 

[thatgui]

Hey, these are good news. As it is build with sdl, maybe the new version can be of any use to gain speed?

I wouldn't count on that. Widelands isn't very resource efficient.

 

[Pleng]

...if it's inefficient then doesn't that mean it's making extra unrequired calls to the API? Therefore if it's making extra calls, and these are each getting processed a little bit faster, then an inefficient game should benefit MORE from an improved SDL than an efficient one?

Waiting patiently for my logic to be shot down in flames!

 

[Schnatterplatsch]

Inefficienty has uncountable reasons...

...but something like "unrequired calls". Can't really imagine. Either I call SDL_BlitSurface or I don't. Either the image appears on the screen or it doesn't.

 

[thatgui]

...if it's inefficient then doesn't that mean it's making extra unrequired calls to the API? Therefore if it's making extra calls, and these are each getting processed a little bit faster, then an inefficient game should benefit MORE from an improved SDL than an efficient one?

Waiting patiently for my logic to be shot down in flames!

I do not know in what way the software is inefficient programmed, but my 1,8 GHz C2D Notebook produces a lot of heat while running it. Maybe Siedler2.5 (!Link in german) is also an option. It's open source and a linux version exists, but no single player mode is implented yet :angry: .