do you remember… ptCTF?
Do you remember that specific project that you started 7 or 8 years ago, and just didn’t have the will/time/manpower to maintain? Well, one of my early experiences happened when I was 16: ptCTF, a “Capture The Flag” extension for Half-Life, that I developed with some friends in high school. It seems, it was not totally forgotten…
At the time the objective was to create a portuguese-stereotype kind of game. Therefore, the scenario was a North vs. South war, one of the few (and, yet, artificial) ways in which we can split the portuguese culture. Some details were meant to be purely stereotypical, like the wine bottles that served as health packs, etc…
Well, it was essentially a failed project, as a whole (only the initial version was released, and no-one would want to play it, since there were far better alternatives), but i see that at least it hasn’t died, deep inside the mind of some (older) portuguese gamers.
Just as an aside, I believe that this project marked my first contact with the MingW32 gcc/glibc port, that eventually lead to my conversion to GNU/Linux.