Highly suggest connecting with one of the lead developers, Charles Dang/Vultraz, if you have any C++ jobs in the USA.
He's been a developer on Wesnoth since 2012 but only graduated university in 2024. Unfortunately, it's been an absolutely brutal market for new graduates. Even if you're a maintainer on one of the most popular OSS C++ projects on GitHub.
Thanks,our company is in the DC area so I just reached out with an offer to chat. Wesnoth is an incredible project, I can't believe he doesn't have a programming job.
rhdunn 40 minutes ago [-]
My only gripe with the game is that healing doesn't give XP to the healing units. This means you need to place them in combat to level up instead of placing them behind the fighters like they are intended to be, and with them initially having low health they are very squishy. I know you can kinda cheese it by reducing a monster to 1-2 HP and then getting them to attack, but it feels like going against their role.
jjmarr 12 minutes ago [-]
I've enjoyed this, honestly. There's a whole short-term pain/long-term gain tradeoff to risking healers that adds more strategy to the campaign.
> I know you can kinda cheese it by reducing a monster to 1-2 HP
In practice, I've found it difficult to get monsters to 1-2 HP since it often means not using your most powerful attacks. On harder difficulties I usually can't afford the opportunity cost.
marknutter 25 minutes ago [-]
It's OSS, no?
tmtvl 17 minutes ago [-]
It is, but making a change that doesn't mess up the balance of the game can be tricky.
coolgoose 59 seconds ago [-]
I've been playing this for 10+ years :) it's one awesome game and the details for sprites and art direction is sweet.
everdrive 55 minutes ago [-]
I played the heck out of this about a decade ago. It's an amazing game, and I'd love to return to it and see what has changed.
If that's your jam then there's also a (non-open-source) "Hero's Hour" which tickles the old Heroes of Might and Magic stylings, works reasonably well on Xbox, where I've been doing most of my gaming lately.
As far as Open Source gaming success stories, I'd put this up there in the Top 5 for "Original IP and Concept" (if that makes sense). Just a stellar labor of love, worth giving it a shot to play!
Grew up playing Wesnoth, still adore the game. There is a TON of third party content and a serious extended universe, too!
hyperionultra 53 minutes ago [-]
Could you name a few places to find 3rd party content?
tmtvl 15 minutes ago [-]
Last time I checked there was an option on the main menu to download user-made campaigns.
IsTom 14 minutes ago [-]
There's a "addons" browser in the game.
plutokras 4 minutes ago [-]
In high school I kept a USB drive full of portable apps. This was one of them. I can still recommend it.
MinimalAction 5 minutes ago [-]
Interesting! Is this similar to Age of Empires?
mattlondon 20 minutes ago [-]
Blocked by Anubis? Just says "invalid response" with no explanation or instructions for how to fix it. Chrome on Android - not exactly niche.
Thanks for that.
bedroom_jabroni 1 hours ago [-]
An absolute gem I came across randomly many years ago. Picked up Mewgenics and it left me wishing it had some mechanics from Wesnoth like faster animations (Mewgenics caps at 4x), undo action (at least if the action doesn't trigger any rng/damage behavior), skip enemy turns.
I only wish they added more campaigns into the official lore.
macleginn 11 minutes ago [-]
So it's like HMM but the whole map is in battle mode?
orangesilk 21 minutes ago [-]
What would need to happen that more players are available for online games?
jcmontx 28 minutes ago [-]
Never heard of this game. Is it similar to Warcraft III?
markatto 14 minutes ago [-]
It's turn based, the most similar game I've played is probably Fantasy General. Closer to Advance Wars or Fire Emblem than Warcraft.
orangesilk 23 minutes ago [-]
No. Warcraft 3 ist real time strategy, Wesnoth is turn based strategy.
the_af 17 minutes ago [-]
No. This is turn based, it doesn't play like any RTS game.
aetherson 23 minutes ago [-]
Not really. It's turn-based and hex-based.
uberman 1 hours ago [-]
I love this game. It is also fairly easy to tinker with the units if you are like me, that is a big win.
anilkuscu 44 minutes ago [-]
only missing point about this game is some of the real word parameters like moral,flanking etc. Maybe a real history mod would be amazing like ancient era or medieval ages.
Terr_ 28 minutes ago [-]
Modern strategy games for leisure can be traced back to actual militaries or hardcore history buffs—systems that would try to model morale etc., often to a degree which, er, doesn't have mass-market appeal. :p
He's been a developer on Wesnoth since 2012 but only graduated university in 2024. Unfortunately, it's been an absolutely brutal market for new graduates. Even if you're a maintainer on one of the most popular OSS C++ projects on GitHub.
I can't recommend him enough.
edit: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-dang-10994b1b4
> I know you can kinda cheese it by reducing a monster to 1-2 HP
In practice, I've found it difficult to get monsters to 1-2 HP since it often means not using your most powerful attacks. On harder difficulties I usually can't afford the opportunity cost.
If that's your jam then there's also a (non-open-source) "Hero's Hour" which tickles the old Heroes of Might and Magic stylings, works reasonably well on Xbox, where I've been doing most of my gaming lately.
As far as Open Source gaming success stories, I'd put this up there in the Top 5 for "Original IP and Concept" (if that makes sense). Just a stellar labor of love, worth giving it a shot to play!
Thanks for that.
I only wish they added more campaigns into the official lore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainmail_(game)