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BZFlag goes Platinum

Posted by Zonk on from the you-don't-see-nearly-enough-tank-games-anymore dept.

morrison writes "A little over four years after moving to SourceForge at a current rate of several hundred downloads every day, BZFlag has finally "gone platinum". With over 1,000,000 SourceForge downloads, BZFlag looks to be the third game (following Tux Racer and StepMania) to go 'sf platinum'. While this doesn't include the many tens of thousands distributed prior to the project's migration to sf.net during the SGI days, it's a momentous occasion for open source gaming regardless."

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  1. Re:Is it just me by m50d · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some would call it "artistic". But yes, the graphics do suck.

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    I am trolling
  2. Re:Is it just me by Ingolfke · · Score: 2, Funny

    They do, but no worse than your English.

  3. That's amazing. by b00m3rang · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could tell the exact moment when the story went live (I was looking at the subscriber preview), when an image suddenly stopped loading halfway through.

    With friends like Slashdot, who needs test load generators?

    1. Re:That's amazing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      > That's amazing.

      Have you ever felt the all mighty power of god within you, as if you where him, with the power to do anything, tranquilly floating in the everlasting, vibrant, stunning, spectacle of the universe, feelings of absolute pleasure, and total bliss enriching, and surrounding your every breath, while a million stunningly beautiful virgins pleasure you for eternity. No? Well you don't need to, because you've seen an image stop loading when it got slashdotted.

  4. bzkitty by KillerHamster · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://bzflag.org/screenshots/bzkitty.jpg

    1. Re:bzkitty by focitrixilous+P · · Score: 2, Funny

      bzkitty is not pleased.

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  5. Dammit by orangesquid · · Score: 2, Funny

    I *knew* there was something wrong with that wget script I wrote. Forget to actually increment the loop variable...

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  6. Re:Gameplay? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > Do you have any memory from the 80's?

    Yes, actually. I have four 256K, 30-pin SIPPs lying around for no particular reason.

  7. Re:Gameplay? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > Once you start improving the graphics, where do you stop?

    Once you start digging a hole, where do you stop?

    Once you start growing a beard, where do you stop?

    Once you start posting stupid comments on slashdot, where do you stop?

  8. Re:Momentous? by grazzy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Congratulations, you have just won a million downloads of your signature.

    Proud yet?

  9. Re:OSS builds your CV by csbruce · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a big resume booster for the maintainers.

    "Macroeconomic cost of personal projects to world GDP: $1.25-billion."

    Yeah, that'll look really great on a person's resume.