{"id":614,"date":"2014-12-09T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2014-12-09T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:24:21","slug":"knights-update-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/knights-update-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights update (December 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I haven&#8217;t done a Knights update for a while so I thought I would just check in to let people know I am still here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I haven&#8217;t had much time to work on Knights recently, so there haven&#8217;t been any changes to the codebase to report.<\/p>\n<p>However, I did take the time to update the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/\">Knights web page<\/a>. In particular I added a couple of review quotes, which I&#8217;ll reproduce here because they are a great description of the game:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This game is fun. It isn&#8217;t at first because there&#8217;s just so much to take in, but stick with it for an hour or two and I promise you this is one of the best games ever created.<\/p>\n<p>(Steven Pearson)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>If any other convincing is necessary that this is one of those multi-player games to play with friends while drinking beer, then consider this: how many other Amiga games let you bash through a door with an axe in a &#8220;Here&#8217;s Johnny!&#8221; style just before you bury the axe in your opponent&#8217;s skull?<\/p>\n<p>(Adrian Simpson \/ Amiga Point of View)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those are better than anything I could write \ud83d\ude42 so I have added them to the home page. Hopefully the new page will give people a bit more of a clue of what Knights is all about, and maybe tempt them to download&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the game must be becoming a bit more popular because it has been added to two Linux distributions (that I am aware of): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensuse.org\/en\/\">OpenSUSE<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/rogueclass.org\/\">Rogue Class Linux<\/a>. This is great news and hopefully will lead to more people trying out the game.<\/p>\n<p>(If anyone knows of other Linux distributions that carry Knights, please let me know and I will add them to the website.)<\/p>\n<p>As for future work&#8230; well, I don&#8217;t have any specific plans but here are some things I would like to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bug fixes (there are always bugs that can be fixed&#8230; although I think most of the major ones have been squished by now)<\/li>\n<li>Adding stuff to the Lua API perhaps?<\/li>\n<li>Some day I want to make a (working) map editor for Knights&#8230; (although this is probably unrealistic at the moment, due to lack of time).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, if anyone has any &#8220;requests&#8221; for future Knights changes\/improvements, please let me know.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Merry Christmas \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about Knights, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I haven&#8217;t done a Knights update for a while so I thought I would just check in to let people know I am still here \ud83d\ude42 Unfortunately, I haven&#8217;t had much time to work on Knights recently, so there haven&#8217;t been any changes to the codebase to report. However, I did take the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/knights-update-december-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Knights update (December 2014)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}