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a bit complicated, especially in higher resolutions. Also, the enemy intelligence very immature, so that it is only worthwhile to stand against human players." It's of precious little use. Though I'd normally be very happy to see IndieGames used as a source, this one is a cross-posting from a backwater site. The review is also poorly written, the opening sentence: "Dark Oberon is a solid programmed RTS-game with unique
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lacks the multiple reliable secondary sources to satisfy notability. The only secondary source in the article worth a damn is the Chip listing, which is a couple of sentences culminating in "However, you should (not yet) expect too much. The units are not yet fully animated, and the control is still
344:. The game is talked about much more than it is written about in journals, so its notability isn't solid. As it passes into community nostalgia, I'm confident that its influence on later projects will become better documented. If it wasn't open-source, there'd be no shortage of articles about it.-- 128:
Article is regularly proposed for deletion, so might be an idea to discuss here and get it settled one way or the other. The main issue is notability - The game has not been the subject of significant, reliable, third-party coverage. The closest thing seems to be
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development - it may be a nice game, but doesn't even have a single player mode, and no servers setup on the internet for multiplayer use! The only references to it are a (very brief) German magazine article, which is pretty old, an entry on a WWW site listing
239:). The particular weaknesses of the software do not go to notability and are not at issue in the least. The article clearly needs further referencing, however. I would recommend adding "Expand" and "Refimprove" tags and seeing how things progress from there. - 121: 153: 437:." I like to argue the reliability case for the more usable sites dealing with indie gaming in general, but I wouldn't touch this one with a bargepole. 185:
open source games for Linux ever created - and what appear to be 3 spam references portable menu systems for USB drives... Which only repackage an
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magazine article listed above) and even a few scholarly articles (e.g. the game is discussed in Marianna Luxardo's thesis entitled
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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with mention on several review sites (including the German
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IndieGames.com review is OK-ish. It needs more, though.
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That's not bad. The source of the review is actually
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I videoclip dei Tool fra animazione e sperimentazione
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program, and don't even include it in their suites!
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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
deletion review
Backslash Forwardslash
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06:52, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
Dark Oberon
Dark Oberon
edit
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history
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links
watch
logs
views
delete
View log
this short writeup
Marasmusine
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13:49, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
list of video game related deletion discussions
Marasmusine
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13:51, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
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