[Ohrrpgce] Vikings of Midgard

[Ralph Versteegen]

Since there's a Windows zip available too I guess putting it in the
installer is OK. (Unless we have a second installer without it)
Also, we should list the filesize of each download.

Downloading directly from a gamelist would be a cool feature! I don't see
which part of it would be too slow. SS's gamedump.php is only 200kB
uncompressed; if the description and screenshot(s) are downloaded on demand
and possibly cached it would be fine.

I still have the ambition of someday letting Custom upload games too, first
as a backup service (private by default) but more interestingly as a way to
collaboratively edit a game.

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 00:12, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> 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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