[Ohrrpgce] Vikings of Midgard

[James Paige]

Yes, these are reasonable changes. I think I would still like to have
Vikings included in the Windows exe installer, since that is the one that
is most likely to be used by new and inexperienced users. But excluding it
from other builds (and especially the source code archive) seems like a
good idea.

Another thing to think about, do we want to consider adding a feature that
lets users browse/download directly from a remote gamelist?

For example, suppose we defined a text file format-- perhaps a block of
json-- that describes a remote gamelist. Then the gamelist browser could
treat such a file as a virtual directory, from which you could browse a
remote list of games and download the ones you want to play (although for a
big gamelist like slimesalad it might be prohibitively slow?)

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 7:59 AM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> One thing we need to do before release is update the version of Vikings
> included with the engine. However it just occurred to me that the
> Hróðvitnir release of Vikings is 45MB when compressed, because all the
> music has been replaced with .oggs, which I think is getting too big.
> Incidentally, the fact that we don't offer nightly Mac or Linux builds of
> the engine which don't include Vikings was already a bit annoying. I
> suggest we put it alongside the other engine downloads as a separate
> download.
>
> Therefore it wouldn't need to be included in the source code archives
> either (which recently ballooned to 39MB due to the archives stored in
> wip/docker/, which I suggest also don't need to be included). I suppose it
> can stay in the svn/git repo though.
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