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I've "wasted" so many hours of my life on this and the original by Chris Sawyer. The original is a masterpiece when it comes to programming and UI design I thi
by tyfon 5y ago
I've "wasted" so many hours of my life on this and the original by Chris Sawyer.
The original is a masterpiece when it comes to programming and UI design I think, at least for it's time. It is also very fun :)
It's very nice that it is kept alive in this fashion with openttd.
- rocky1138 5y agoYes, though I sorely miss OpenTTD's "close window with right click" option when going back to Chris Sawyer's version.
- Macha 5y agoI mostly use the "close all windows" hotkey, bound to delete by default.
- raverbashing 5y agoYeah, for real, the usability of older games, when seen from a modern point of view is very bad. You needed to be in a more focused state of mind and had much more patience.
- DiabloD3 5y agoWhats neat is, this option, and a few other quality of life updates, OpenTTD stole from Locomotion and Rollercoaster Tycoon, both later games by Chris Sawyer on updated versions of the engine. Also, a lot of what TTDPatch and then OpenTTD did was just expanding what could be done purely as function of computers having vastly more RAM and much more graphics compute power. More trains, bigger maps, better use of the 256 color palette, eventually supporting 32 bit rendering entirely, adding modern polygon billboarding for sprite rendering, etc, all things Chris would have done if the was still making games like that today. Chris quit the industry and went to go enjoy life instead, and his company just manages the rights and does ports of the existing titles under new publishers to new platforms.