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Unofficial Hedgewars Wiki
Some community members started an unofficial Hedgewars wiki because the official one is really chaotic and outdated and the wiki software is a mess. Also, only very few people have editing rights.
The unofficial wiki is by Hedgewars fans and for Hedgewars fans.
The unofficial wiki is a few months old now and does not have many articles. But it is open for everyone to edit. It uses the MediaWiki software. If I recall correctly, the wiki is hosted by Wohlstand.
You find it here:
http://wiki.hedgewars.wohlnet.ru/
Currently, the most interesting part about this wiki are the pages about the styles like Balanced Random Weapon. The other pages are also all Hedgewars-related but pretty much unsorted and chaotic. The wiki also lacks a basic structure and is is very WIP.
The idea is to create a complete Hedgewars user manual, eventually.
Basically, I just wanted to give a shout-out here to show you that this wiki exists and maybe hear what you think about the basic idea.
Records Page
After some(a lot of) tries, I've finished shoppa-tech race 07... but... on records page there isn't any record on that map. Dunno if it's only with that map or what.
hedgewars-chat-notify.sh (notify on new CHAT messages in multiplayer mode)
I created a simple script to launch `hedgewars` and get a Desktop notification on each CHAT message in multiplayer mode.
Note that it catches both public room chat and your gaming chat. (Normally, you don't see public chat once you joined a gaming room.)
The script: https://gist.github.com/vn971/25cb151003de756214ce
Content (may become outdated):
#!/bin/bash -eu
hedgewars 2>&1 | (
while read -r LINE; do
if [[ "$LINE" == *CHAT* ]]; then
notify-send "$LINE";
echo "$LINE";
fi;
done;
)
Special thanks: the idea to catch stderr was suggested by nemo.
A thing (ufo) and a bug (portal)
Heyo,
I just noticed earlier that when you drop something from the ufo while underwater, you get 4x the normal get-away time for that weapon. Since I hadn't seen it anywhere I thought I'd just mention it.
A little bug is that portals can stay from one turn into the next if all hogs in the other teams are frozen.
Hedgewars on Steam Greenlight? FAQ, Discussion, related Links
NOTE
This topic is outdated as Steam Greenlight is dead.
Every now and then people (e.g. the Linux User Group on Steam) ask about getting Hedgewars on Steam via its community-vote based approval process, called Greenlight.
There was an old related thread about that topic opened by another community member - however it got deleted by its creator.
So instead I'll try to clear things up here.
Why Steam?
- Some people expressed that they hope this would lead to a bigger community - due to Steam's extreme popularity and easy access to games in its store.
- Many gamers prefer to use the Steam client to launch and manage all their games
- Many of them also use Steam for interacting (e.g.) chatting with other gamers. E.g. using the steam overlay while in-game.
- Steam can be used to conveniently keep all games up to date. Therefore it would be a comfortable way to be always on the latest version of Hedgewars without having to download and install updates manually.
What's needed for Hedgewars on Steam Greenlight?
- Compiling a list with required organizational tasks to get Hedgewars on and past Greenlight
- Compiling a list with required technical aspects to get Hedgewars on and past Greenlight
- At least one individual that is willing to dedicate a lot of time and work towards fixing all the items on above mentioned lists
- Somebody or something (e.g.
