Game over [1st April joke]

[CryHam]

Ugh, I got sad news for the project unfortunately.
I'm getting married in autumn, I've decided to stop developing for good this time.
Since new release is quite close, I'm looking for at least 2 programmers, 1 packager/releaser for each platform and few graphics and sound artists, to keep doing what I was doing until now.
I managed only to update the home page, added some crucial things that need to be done in Roadmap, and made project Issues more readable.
Well, we knew somehow it had to happen, right ?

[Wuzzy]

The game features 132 tracks in 214 sceneries, -79 cars and two and a half Track Editors.

Sounds legit to me.

[charlie]

This is the 3rd time you've announced this kind of thing CryHam.

Good luck with the wedding etc, best wishes for all that always a nice time for anybody and hope it goes well.

For this, the game, just say you're getting married and don't know what commitment you may have for the future. These finality style announcements are melodramatic. It's open source. If you come back to it, you come back to it. If you don't, you don't. Just chill out about it.

You've also got a release on the homepage (2.5) as the 7th August 2014 which is 4 months in the future. "Bad looking rally tracks" probably should say 'Good' and -79 cars without the -, also more sceneries than tracks sounds a bit weird?

[CryHam]

Yeah but you know what day was yesterday
Ah IDK, maybe it sounded too serious, but that was for fun.
Few people who know me would know that I'll never get married
And since I tend to announce project dead after a release or in mid winter, you can't take it too serious either

[CryHam]

OK, if anybody missed (and still wants to have fun), it I'll put what I did here (a bit fragmented probably):

Homepage image

http://wiki.vdrift-ogre.googlecode.com/git/ver23apr1.jpg

Edits on home:

The game features 132 tracks in 214 sceneries, -79 cars and two and a half Track Editors.
The latest version is 2.5 (7 August 2014)
Note: used language in chat is Persian, do not use English.
Bad looking rally tracks

Extra things in Roadmap:

add pedestrian crossings, it's impossible to cross road now
elephants (and monkeys) in jungle, make them destroy car when hit
new game mode with other cars and giant beachball
pit stops with lemonade stands
balloon rides on selected tracks, need to check wind first

Scrambled letters in Issue titles:

Sarticles
Pounds
Molorcap for gerrain, trass
Inst Hwancing
Fun Slare
Zorihons
Shater wader, Wunderater
...........
Lud Hayouts, Tui, Gracks
Peckchoints
Stultimlayer puff
Cyls as Wheelinders
Spload Ritting
Toint po toint pracks
Mart stark, snigs
Odjects (bynamic)
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Einting pin aitor
Virers
Parage, D3 par crewievs
Feerce fodback
Stap lats, mage chiavements
Dar disual vamage and cirt
Soad rides, llaws
Dar cemorfance pamage
Gew Mameplay Nodes
Toad runnels
======
OI appanents
Montent canager
Grolor cading
Splorest frea aine
Sar vins and skinyls
ScritSpleen, ver-piewport
Lynamic dights
Cear rirror, mamera
Pinterolation (rar cos/pot)

[CryHam]

Ah well, was the first time I did this, who knows, could be a yearly tradition.



Btw. do any other open source projects do this ?
I.e. are old and bored enough to waste time for fun on 1st April.

[charlie]

Good April Fool's joke - and I was the fool! Haha.

Still, it is the 3rd time... even if this time you didn't mean it. ;D