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Hi all.
It looks that I have to make this announcement. I know that some folks
were waiting for the new version of PosBand since October 2004. Well,
I'm not working on it anymore.
I'm really sorry. And I hope you'll understand me. I worked
(intermittently) on Pos until about April. Then, I noticed that I was
making little progress. I decided to take a break. I was graduating
from the school and entering the university, and I had all kinds of
exams, so I didn't really have much time for Pos anyway.
But they are over now, it's August and I still can't continue the work.
I did a few bits, polishing some docs, but I didn't touch the source.
And, the worst part is, I've realized -- I don't really want to do it
anymore.
Why did I begin Pos at first place? I liked Angband, and wanted to play
with the source. I picked a few ideas and began implementing them. But
the "creative" part is finished. The source is more or less
completed -- with a few long-standing bugs and some far-fetched TODO
items that don't really belong to Pos at all. What remains is the
boring part, implementing all monster races. There are about 650 of
them. Each one needs careful balancing and testing. After 1.5 years,
still only about a quarter is complete.
Moreover, Pos never was a popular variant. There was a short peak
during the recent competition, but it never attracted as much attention
as NPP or OAngband do. Actually, I am happy with it -- there are
enough fans to feel that my work was appreciated. But I don't think
that many people will be disappointed if I give up.
Last but not least, I probably won't have time for Pos anyway, with
both the university and the job.
"Work-in-progress" version of PosBand 0.9.9 is available at:
http://posband.earthsea.org/posband/posband-0.9.9-WIP.tar.bz2
(I can't make a Windows build. Something odd happened to my Windows;
it doesn't boot and doesn't bluescreen, and I can't reinstall it at the
moment. Maybe I'll upload Windows version later.)
--
Alexander Ulyanov -=- posband@earthsea.org
So this is how liberty dies. With cheering, and applause.
-- Senator Amidala, Star Wars Episode III
Hi all.
It looks that I have to make this announcement. I know that some folks
were waiting for the new version of PosBand since October 2004. Well,
I'm not working on it anymore.
I'm really sorry. And I hope you'll understand me. I worked
(intermittently) on Pos until about April. Then, I noticed that I was
making little progress. I decided to take a break. I was graduating
from the school and entering the university, and I had all kinds of
exams, so I didn't really have much time for Pos anyway.
But they are over now, it's August and I still can't continue the work.
I did a few bits, polishing some docs, but I didn't touch the source.
And, the worst part is, I've realized -- I don't really want to do it
anymore.
Why did I begin Pos at first place? I liked Angband, and wanted to play
with the source. I picked a few ideas and began implementing them. But
the "creative" part is finished. The source is more or less
completed -- with a few long-standing bugs and some far-fetched TODO
items that don't really belong to Pos at all. What remains is the
boring part, implementing all monster races. There are about 650 of
them. Each one needs careful balancing and testing. After 1.5 years,
still only about a quarter is complete.
Moreover, Pos never was a popular variant. There was a short peak
during the recent competition, but it never attracted as much attention
as NPP or OAngband do. Actually, I am happy with it -- there are
enough fans to feel that my work was appreciated. But I don't think
that many people will be disappointed if I give up.
Last but not least, I probably won't have time for Pos anyway, with
both the university and the job.
"Work-in-progress" version of PosBand 0.9.9 is available at:
http://posband.earthsea.org/posband/posband-0.9.9-WIP.tar.bz2
(I can't make a Windows build. Something odd happened to my Windows;
it doesn't boot and doesn't bluescreen, and I can't reinstall it at the
moment. Maybe I'll upload Windows version later.)
--
Alexander Ulyanov -=- posband@earthsea.org
So this is how liberty dies. With cheering, and applause.
-- Senator Amidala, Star Wars Episode III
I think of Pos as a pretty widely respected variant, especially for one that was still being developed. As far as I can tell, NPPAngband version 0.1.x wasn't played by more than a half dozen people. The 0.2.x series got a bit more attention, but it died off after a couple months. It wasn't until the 0.3.x series, and over a year of heavy programming, that NPP got steady play. I think attention to the variants always peaks a couple months after a recent release. I hope somebody decides to pick up Pos and continue work on it. 
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