Talk:Armagetron Advanced

Scheduled for deletion?

Why is this page scheduled for deletion? Does it have to have links to sites that have reviewed the game?

As a matter of fact, Armagetron Advanced provides a 3d light cycle game that is quite unlike any other light cycle game. GLTron is just a rip of the movie, armagetron provides networked play and numerous game modes that are quite challenging. non-notable means nothing else comes close. I suspect foul play.

Non-notable refers to no reliable secondary sources as a general rule. If this game is distributed solely via the web then WP:WEB is the guideline to be looking at. Join in on the AFD discussion page (there's a link in the box on top of the article). QuagmireDog 16:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

• • How about Gentoo, Mandriva Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE (therefore Novell), et al? --70.244.120.143 03:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Am I the only one who believes that the web-notability metric is somewhat retarded when it comes to online games? By the logic of "cd-distribution", massively successful projects like Second Life and Runescape aren't "notable" because they don't have solid media... and would the frequent mention of Second Life in mainstream software press (but online) like Slashdot make it similarly ineligible? At any rate, Armagetron is frequently mentioned in both the very-noteworthy Penny-Arcade, and the paper world of gaming magazines (for example, 1up.com included it in it's "101 free games" article which is included in various other publications). Really, it's silly that a forgotten failure of a game on a forgotten console like, say, China_Warrior is not even considered for deletion simply because it had the dubious honour of being published... while a modern, popular game with an active playerbase is not.

Heh, it's late, and apparently I missed that part of the discussion. I guess I should register here sometime... Anyway, I participated in the Afd discussion and didn't manage to identify myself when asked mostly because I only just now came back. Now feeling a little guilty for not identifying myself when asked, I'm Lucifer, one of the project admins, wrote the comment listing Linux distributions I've seen carry it. Sorry. --70.251.188.3 07:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

OpenBSD

The article mentioned OpenBSD; when was it first available for OpenBSD? John Vandenberg 20:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• 0.2.8.2.1 is officially available for OpenBSD as of a few days ago thanks to belenus. The packages are being added to the download page as we speak. --Luke-Jr 23:01, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok; once the beta OpenBSD port is uploaded, a note in the history section would be appropriate.

If it had of been in the official OpenBSD ports collection, that would help with WP:SOFT. Now that I look, it was added to freebsd ports on November 13, 2005. My guess is that FreeBSD ports collection is less restrictive than OpenBSD, so its inclusion there is less notable. John Vandenberg 02:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Tron?

This reword of the intro states that it wasnt based on Tron, and consequently it has been dropped from the Category:Tron. I fail to see how this reword is correct, as it goes on to say that it "is based losely off of the movie Tron", and the name tron was incorporated into the name Armagetron. IMO the reword should be reverted and the category restored. John Vandenberg 04:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree, Armagetron actually was inspired by the movie Tron, as stated by their very own [about page]:

"A Tron clone in 3D"

This has been the tagline of Armagetron, since, well, a very long time, and is probably the shortest and most accurate description possible. Tron was an arcade game based on the movie of the same name, release by Disney in 1982.

Tommie-lie 21:11, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Version number system

I can't understand the versioning system at all.

Wikipedia and various other places (including their own sites) state the latest version is 0.2.8.* however I have been using version 0.3.0.5558 since about July 2006 (according to the file timestamp). So what's going on here? -NeF (talk) 19:50, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

The 0.3.0 version is a development release. You probably grabbed it from the beta page? Anyway, 0.2.8.2.1 is indeed the latest official release. --Madmax.ptz (talk) 20:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Movie graphics and sounds

Do the same movie graphics and sounds for Armagetron also work with Armagetron Advanced? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.232.94.33 (talk) 03:11, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Online section

I think this line located in the fourth paragraph of the online section should be changed. "..such as the so-called Ladle or the highly acknowledged Team Sumo Tournament." This sounds too opinionated to be in an encyclopedia article, unless the context is changed. Any my apoligies for not logging in.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.176.135.204 (talk) 23:04, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

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