What is Battle for Wesnoth? (taken from official site)
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.
Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.
Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir... step into the boots of a young officer sent to guard a not-so-sleepy frontier outpost... vanquish a horde of undead warriors unleashed by a foul necromancer, who also happens to have taken your brother hostage... guide a band of elvish survivors in an epic quest to find a new home.
No music, no editor, no server component. You need a lot free space (> 32 MB). Install libsdl_net, wesnoth main package, official campaign (Heir to the Throne, The South Guard, The Rise of Wesnoth, A Tale of Two Brothers, Eastern Invasion or Under the Burning Suns), perhaps locales (for non-english speaking people) and sound.
Game starting very, very slow (loading graphics), so be patient. Have fun.
Great work, its great to play wesnoth on my n800 the game works very well, but locales doesnt seem to work.
are missing features like server and music coming in the future?
Yes, i tried catalan language, there is no inmediate change, and when rebooting the game, the language remains english, altough catalan is selected on language menu.
I?l try other locales to see if it happns too.
OK, I know. You need proper locale on N800. Changing language work only if you have these same locale installed on maemo. This is maemo/linux/locales characteristic, not wesnoth or my port, sorry.
I installed the sdl_net, game itself, finnish locale and all the campaings. Game starts fine, but whenever i try to start a game (tutorial, multiplayer, campaign), the game freezes. Cursor moves, but the game doesn't do anything. Have to killall -9 wesnoth.bin from the terminal to kill it. I'm using N800 with 1.2.8 SDL installed. What am I missing?
Update: Now it loaded fine. Yesterday I left it running for like 30 minutes and it didn't. Oh well, must test the game now.
BfW has a lot of grahics, so loading is slow. I can decrese size (compile with tinygui option), but then game is too small for N800 screen. I decided to leave it and change only themes (for better fit to 800x480).
after playing a bit more, my opinion is that the game is very stable, works fine, except for the large load times, but i wonder:
will there be newer versions which solves the issue about the music?
and there's also an important thing i find, there is no taskbar icon, so when changing to another app or the desktop, the task disappears, i wonder if this could be solved somehow.
even if not, i am grateful so now i can play wesnoth on n800
