Add a project timeline

[carstene1ns]

Following the latest discussion on hacker news, there is an interest in how old this project is. We should add some history page with a timeline and explanatory texts about hitting specific goals and such.

Here are some assorted, simple examples on timelines: https://codepen.io/alvarotrigo/pen/ExwYygW https://codepen.io/mathiesjanssen/pen/ggeBKm https://codepen.io/alanhouser/pen/aErrQJ

I need some dates (or at least years) for this. Some not verified dates and ideas:

• June 2006 - Project initiated by fran
• October 2009 - Player2 development start by vgvgf
• July 2010 - Development blog added
• September 2010 - Testgame-2000 created
• November 2010 - Player2 replaces old codebase
• 2011/2012? - project gets a real homepage
• February 2011 - Player alpha release, codepage support
• 2012 - move from sourceforge.net to GitGub
• 2013 - Wii port
• 2013/2014 - Android port - RPG on the go
• May 2015 - Player 0.3 "Slime" runs on the web
• 2015 - start to refactor in modern c++11
• 2015/2016 - Player on 3DS
• August 2016 - Player on PSVita
• March 2018 - Player on Switch
• 2019/2020 - complete refactor by matt, battle system rewrite …

[jetrotal]

I like the last one... I can start something with the text you provided

[jetrotal]

@carstene1ns https://codepen.io/jetrotau/full/wvmpyjW

here an test I made to see how would it look

[Ghabry]

I joined IRC in August 2010 (not that this matters for the timeline) but when I joined Player 2 was able to show the title scene :D

What I found in a chatlog is this timestamp for the "import of Player 2 into the repository": Thu Oct 29 12:31:41 2009 UTC. A user called paulo_v imported the code written by vgvgf (was participated to Player 2 dev for many years).

Iirc Player 1 was programmed by fran and lobomon though the codebase slowly became unmaintanable so the solution was to throw everything away and try again ^^.