BZFlag goes Platinum

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."

Comments

Is this really anything close to an accurate count

[detain]

What about all the distributions that bundle bzflag, most do. Im curious what kind of totals there would be if we could count all the people including those who use things like apt and install it from debians repository, or redhat, etc.. Im willing to bet the actual total number of bzflag installs is much much higher than 1 million

Memories

[gnarled]

My father is a computer science professor, and I remember going to his lab some days and playing Battle Zone against his grad student's on SGI workstations. Good times!

Gameplay rocks!

[menotume]

Hey, for those who don't like the graphics, they're not all that bad, especially if you take the time to fine-tune the many graphics options. To me, BZflag is all about the gameplay. Fancy graphics are for short-lived games that try to impress (sell) by looks alone, or for people who just want to impress their friends, play for a week, and try something else. There are MANY people that have played this game almost daily for years (myself included). For a game so simple to control and start playing, it has many challenges for a real tanker to master.

Re:Gameplay?

[eddy the lip]

If anything, they're too good. One of my favorite things about BattleZone was the monochrome vector graphics. Damn, I miss that game.

I love shiny graphics as much as the next guy (UT2004 is a current favorite), but give me a good game over whizzy graphics any day. Hell, I just whacked Morgoth again a couple of weeks ago. Not using any of those silly tiled graphics, either. I look like a '@', as god intended.