Talk:Spring Engine

Arbitrary mark for deletion?
No discussion, someone just decided to mark this article for deletion. What are the grounds for such a move? This deletionist behavior on wikipedia is getting out of hand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.186.178.171 (talk) 23:33, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Gameplay section - outdated / obsolete
I've added a Gameplay section. If anyone thinks it's too much like a game guide or has too many wikilinks, let me know. :) - KingRaptor 09:56, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think this sort of addition is appropriate. The spring engine is no longer a TA remake but rather a full RTS engine. The section might be miss-leading in this respect despite the disclaimer at the beginning of the section and the engine's deep TA roots. It is rather selective to discuss only one of the many mods in development in the spring community such as Expand and Extreme, Kernel Panic, Nanoblobs, and Final Frontier to name a few. This brings me to a greater problem about the article as a whole as it leads to suggest that the engine is still a TA remake. Also, it does seem too much like a game guide :P - mrutter 18:25, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I think something explaining the basic gameplay for the most popular mods would be appropriate. As it is now, the article doesn't re'''ally describe what Spring is like the the player.Darkcraft 10:10, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Move to "Spring (game engine)" - DONE
I suggest moving the article to that title, as that's what it is. Categories would be changed accordingly, of course. For the sake of completeness, here's my comment from the AfD thread:


 * "Comment/Suggestion I'm an involved party (as a developer of a game using the Spring Engine, and community member), and thus biased, but I'd my opinion would be that the Engine compares quite favorably with eg. ioquake3 . I realise that itself does not have an own article, however I'm not sure where information on this Engine might best be tucked in. I'm afraid a section within the Total Annihilation article (as suggested further above) would be quite out of place, as the Engine is not derived of that game.


 * I'd therefore suggest moving this article to "Spring (game engine)", overhauling the article itself (accordingly) and depending on the outcome of the overhaul, not deleting. I myself would be glad to take on those steps, and barring vocal opposition, would start on it soon. Regards Sean Heron (talk) 09:54, 3 February 2010 (UTC) (apologies, the anon was me)"

Sean Heron (talk) 10:13, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Also for anyone working on the article from here on out, here are all the usable references found in the AfD:, , , , , , , as well as PCGamer (UK) February 2008, and Cyberstratège July-August 2006.  The ModDB link would be a good reference for the game's features, but isn't useful for anything else.  I don't have time to work on the article myself, so my best to those that do. --Teancum (talk) 22:42, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

some more references: http://springrts.com/wiki/Press --92.75.228.192 (talk) 01:35, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

removed the starwars project
the lead dev has not made a release in years, the project is for all intents dead due to the lead dev abandoning the project. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.81.56.137 (talk) 05:08, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Add Beyond All Reason?
The Beyond All Reason (https://www.beyondallreason.info) project uses Spring Engine. I would have added it to the main content page, but the last time I added something to Wikipedia that was trivially verifiable (like "your face gets wet when you look up during a rainstorm"), I got smacked-down because it wasn't published in some highly-rated peer-reviewed journal like Buzzfeed.