[shoozza]

What a surprise to see Soldat on hackernews :)

I maintained Soldat back from version 1.5+ to 1.7 before someone else took over for a few years.

The current version on Steam is Soldat 1.7 while the open source version is an unfinished Soldat 1.8 and needs some love before it can be released (gui is missing, new netcode, switch to lazarus/fpc, macOS and GNU/Linux support, new config file format to name a few.)

So don't expect everything to work out of the box if you compile it.

Any help is welcome btw ;)

[MrYellowP]

Heya mate! Long time fan, since 2003!

You're not the original developer? Does he get any money from the Steam sale? The situation is rather weird and different people seem to know different things.

Could you shed some light on the situation?

[shoozza]

Yes, the original developer gets the money from the steam sale.

He's hosting the lobby server, website and forum for the game.

Afaik the contributors didn't get any money and worked on the game in their spare time because they love Soldat.

One of the goals was to release it as FLOSS.

[Chilinot]

Thank you for your work! I used to play Soldat for hours a day when it was first released.

[MarcScott]

Thanks for your work on Soldat. I still remember a bunch of us sitting in our living room, all with our desktop PCs, and the floor being a mess of cables connecting to power banks and an old switch, playing Soldat for hours.

[dbrgn]

Thanks for maintaining it! I have fond memories of that game.

One time about 80% of my class in school ("Informatik-Berufsschule" in Switzerland) was playing that game while the teacher was talking about some boring Active Directory design topics. Suddenly one of the students screamed "HEADSHOT!", followed by an annoyed teacher and everyone quickly minimizing the game window :)

[FliesLikeABrick]

Former soldat/thd devs appear to be well-represented here