Re: [Adonthell-devel] Odd incident

[Kai Sterker]

> Really weird, I'd say.  Here are my impressions while reading:
>
> Avatar> you see i have asimular engine that is done in VB and works on
> line the thing is we lost the source code and i no longer have
> programmers around anymore as they moved 
>
>I'm quite surprised they "lost the source code". 

I'm quite surprised it is/was in Visual Basic ;). 

Btw., have a look at his picture: he's wearing a suit! 
(http://www.agarthi.net/avatar/staff.html)

Anyway, I find the lack of important information disturbing. It's obvious
that they have the code and gfx of Dark Sun (Online), from SSI. I haven't
heard anything in a long time from that company, so I assume it no longer
exists. Still makes me wonder what the guy's connection with SSI is or was.

He left so fast in the end, that I couldn't ask.


My feeling is that we are well able to make our own graphics. Although
some of the base tiles on the shots were not bad, they probably wouldn't
work with the higher resolution.  Apart from that, everything you say it
true as well:

> About the graphics, I'm more than suspicious. The guy says he owns the
> rights for the graphics. Where did he get them? Could we re-distribute
> them under a free licence? I don't think so. Also, isn't our goal to
> have totally original graphics? Re-taking graphics from a commercial
> game wouldn't be as cool as having our own ("hey, the lammahs rip over
> Dark Sun's gfxs!"). And as you said, the graphics will probably not fit
> anyway. 


> Hey, just thinking about it... The guy wants a
> online RPG engine that runs under windows right now... How about 
> redirecting him to Ari***e? ;p

:).


Well, guess that's the end of that strange episode. Remains the question,
why all the weird stuff ends up in my mailbox? Guess I gotta ask Al to
redirect address@hidden to somebody else :P

Kai