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Originally Posted by gravator
This seems to be a common request from the developers, the desire for a new or better tool, would a person need to find an alternate method for making an idea work or does it always come down to needing a new tool entirely before work can continue only to come to a stop later still because you keep requiring new and better tools for a single project?
Perhaps it's someone starting work on a server, and suddenly wanting to remake all of the original work that may have been done up to a point when a new tool becomes available because it has the potential to be much better than continuing with the older tools and content that has already been developed.
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The only thing that would cause a developer to need to restart their work from scratch, in regards to introducing new "tools", is if there were a new version of Graal Script that made all of their work obsolete.
How about a level maker that works offline with .png tilesets? Or just a level maker that was made in this century? It's bones-old and horrible. There are work-arounds for this, but it introduces a barrier of entry for new developers. Explaining how to LAT at the last Val Con was kind of a joke in that regard. "Take your nice .PNG and save it as a .GIF so that the level maker can be previewed offline."
As for those of you who'd rather not work on Valikorlia, I think it's a pretty good indication of why I don't think this thread's point is very feasible. People don't like working together, and that statement itself is quickly denied by most; yet when you dig into what "working together" means (the sacrifices, the hard work, the mere socializing), developers have limited patience.