Rampancy

Those of you who have been participating in our forum within the last week are probably aware of the recent bit of comparison between Tribes, Tribes 2 and Halo. The website Evil Avatar recently cornered Tim Gift of Dynamix and performed a short interview with him about the similarities and differences between Tribes 2 and Halo. If the article scrolls off the news page, you can probably still catch the same interview material in their forum. Kudos to CaptShazbot for informing us of this.Remember you're representing the Halo community, so go with an open mind, patience and maybe a grain of salt. Tribes 2 does look interesting and it will be a bi-platform release, last I checked, but we'll just have to see whether it can live up to Gift's statements. I'll likely purchase Tribes 2 to get me through the period until Halo is released, and have been a Tribes gamer for a year or so now. However, I'm still keeping my bet firmly on Bungie and Halo.

For those of you who weren't actually caught in the middle of the changes, the forum recieved a bit of a facelift today, to help improve organization and readability. It's there for you guys, so take a peek and see if you like the new look. Comments and suggestions are welcomed, especially since I'll be working on the script for a few days to come.

In response to gamers' questions about the Marathon 2 (for PC) source code, VirtualWolf reports that this little tidbit was in the Marathon 2 (for Mac) ReadMe file:

This is the Mac source. The sole known archive of the Windows 9x source was placed in a lead box and shipped to one of our island laboratories for safekeeping.Unbeknownst to us, the boat carrying the box made an unscheduled run up the coast of Madagascar, where the ship's captain hoped to catch the end of the annual Miss Middle Of Nowhere pageant. The ship was approximately six miles from shore when it was torpedoed by a one-man sub purchased from the Hammacher-Schlemmer catalog by a punter with more money than brains. Divers are still combing the sea floor looking for the box containing the Windows code, and if we ever find it I'm sure we'll let you know. Windows hackers with lots of spare time may still be able to do interesting things with this code.

It's good to know that Bungie is making a conscious effort to find the code for interested PC gamers, and I'm still happy for you Mac users out there. Enjoy your new toy! ;-)

Kudos to Jeff Myers, who has set up a developer's mailing list for you adventurous souls out there who downloaded the Marathon 2 source code. From the post:

I have set up a developer mailing list for the marathon code You can subscribe by sending mail to listserv@3dgamedev.com with subscribe marathon_coding

Of course please replace with your actual name.

Soon I will also be seting up a web archive of the list discusions and webspace for projects/hostings if needed.

You'd almost think some people have been planning for this day. It may be a bit off topic, but any and all source code discussion is welcome on the forum (if traffic demands it, I'll happily set up a dedicated forum for it, too). If I get a few free days, I might just check out the code myself...