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OpenTTD 13.4 Released

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Is it fun to work on such a project?

I once did some minor patches on the OpenTTD code base, but didn't go far, as I didn't like the code style. (This is no objective critizism, I have an idea where they came from, but just not the style I at that time wanted to deal with for a fun/side project)

I assume the maintainers take pride in it, creating a game which is liked by many is rewarding. Especially if you like the game yourself.

Depending on your day job it can be quite relaxing to deal with other problems.

But if you don't like the genre and don't like the codebase and don't like the people in the community and don't like ... it's probably no fun :) in the end only you can judge for yourself.

One thing is certain: It won't earn you lots of money and it's unlikely to be the reference for a new job. (And therefore takes a work aspect out of it, which to me is good)

I had plenty of fun to make an AI for it. My first software project that was used by others. As bonus, it actually worked quite well (called AIAI - Automatic Idiot AI).

Though as a programmer newbie I got confused by race conditions introduced by fact that game may be saved at any time, potentially leaving things in the middle of construction.

I still have plans to get back to it at some point.

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AIs and many other mods were created independently, support for modding was beautiful.

So, 5 fixes in total... And this should be in HN why?

Because people vote it up?

And because OpenTTD often gets a positive recognition here.

The amount of fixes itself does not say anything about the importance or complexity of a release.

If you actually read the change log it’s very very minor stuff.

Still better than "bug fixes and performance improvements".

I agree. This is essentially trivia - and I’m saying that as someone who’s played opened for years.

Now posts about complex signaling and a station layouts? That’s interesting.

A minor point release with zero new features, only a few minor bug fixes? Not interesting.

Because they didn't revrite it completely after 1 year.

Time for a fork written in rust, right?

pfft, val is the new hotness

Some HN users habitually repost software release announcements to HN, whether there is anything notable about them or not. And other people upvote it.

Personally I think such posts should be off-topic for HN, unless they come with a bit of commentary or at least something for us to read.

I feel software release announcements function as a way to "advertise" some relevant software on HN. Why should that be forbidden but Show HN be allowed?

Look at the text on the linked page, it doesn't really advertise or show anything.

Open TTD is fantastic and I'm happy to see it linked on HN. It would be better to link to a page that says something interesting about the project.

Because it isn't news. OpenTTD is 2 decade old project that is mostly recreating a 30 year old game.

If this was 13.0, that'd be one thing, but the top change in this is "Fix: Setting tree lines drawn incorrectly for RTL languages (#11070)"

The page you linked to is also minimally informative to anyone who doesn't already know what OpenTTD is.

Who is this post supposed to benefit?

Because people like this game and release announcements is how things get advertised on the front page.

Just to help people who never knew of it to discover it. The same like when people post links to Wikipedia articles about some curiosities every some months. OpenTTD is a masterpiece free game and can make some people happy.

Easy karma.

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