From: jbritt@...
Date: 2003-02-28T11:54:57+09:00
Subject: Hail?


I noticed a new entry in the RAA for a 3-D game called Hail, described as "free 3d gladiatorial combat game for windows."

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=hail


Curious, I followed the link to download, and ended up at GameSpy FilePlanet, which requires a tedious, and rather nosy,
registration process before you are allowed to download anything.

Finally, your choices for download sites are restricted to a few S L O W sites, unless you choose to subscribe to something or
other.  Through all of this I never found anything that mentioned Ruby.

I E-mailed the owners of the project, expressing my distaste for the whole download process, and asked what part Ruby played in
this.  I haven't heard back, and was wondering if anybody here knows something about the game.

I'm thinking that either a) whoever added the RAA entry doesn't really know what RAA is for, or b) put the entry there for the sole
purpose of driving traffic to the game (which likely has nothing to do with Ruby).



 James Britt
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