{"id":309,"date":"2014-07-02T18:27:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T18:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/?p=309"},"modified":"2014-07-02T18:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T18:29:29","slug":"hitting-the-magic-number-version-1-4-legacy-and-gpl-only-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/309","title":{"rendered":"Hitting the magic number, version 1.4 LEGACY and GPL-only released!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a major milestone in the Biamin<\/em> project! When I released 1.2 February 22nd 2014 after about a year of hacking away on it, I was pretty done with it, expecting a few feedback releases with bugfixes and suggestions from the Internet. I’m quoted as saying<\/a>: «The ~2200 lines of code reflects a need for optimization, but I am not planning to do any major overhauls on the current game.» Enter our advanced Bash code side-kicker Kastian<\/strong>, who first pushes ahead some ideas I wasn’t able to implement myself, optimizes the entire codebase(!!!) in ~ 1.3, and then starts sending more suggestions for expanding the universe beyond my own mission statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While we were developing a more RPG-oriented branch of the project "2.0", I felt the original game needed to be moved somewhere safe. Then came the idea of "forking" it into the current subdivisions: code, legacy and gpl-only. Check them out on our gitorious project page<\/a>. The first contains the full game, the second contains the current version 1.4 + bugfixes and the last one will follow the 2.0 series (full game) once we have reached stable. Read more about the different editions of Biamin on the About page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So today we release version 1.4, meaning that we have successfully fulfilled the original game I created in 2013 plus optimizations. The LEGACY branch will only receive bugfixes from this point on<\/strong>. All active development and world expansion will continue in 2.0 and 3.0 etc. branches in the \/code\/<\/a> repository. I think it is safe to say that the LEGACY or original series of Biamin is a rogue-like adventure game made to encompass on-and-off playing, as a drop-in BASH replacement of games like e.g. solitaire. It features 4 playable races, 6 enemies, 8 items and 6 different scenarios in the 270 sections of the world map, as well as a map template generator and integrated update function for bugfixes. If you want to go beyond that, stay tuned for 2.0!<\/p>\n

CHANGES in version 1.4<\/strong><\/p>\n