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phoronix
07-12-2009, 09:30 PM
Phoronix: 0 A.D. Game Goes Open-Source

Wildfire Games has decided to switch their development model for their real-time strategy title, 0 A.D., from closed-source to open-source. This 3D real-time strategy game is now having its code licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and the game content is going under the Creative Commons Attribute-Share Alike license. 0 A.D...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzM3OA
Hoodlum
07-12-2009, 10:03 PM
Wow. An open source RTS with not only acceptable but awesome texture detail. This is brilliant, i've been waiting for an AoE style RTS for a long time (though I didn't like AoE III). Maybe this will be what I'm looking for!
superppl
07-12-2009, 10:38 PM
Wow, 8 years. I wonder what took them so long, but I guess we should be grateful that they turned around and didn't "move on".
This is exciting! :)
Gentooer
07-12-2009, 11:47 PM
Really great news! :) I will definitely be giving this a try when my distro gets it packaged. The screenshots look very good, but does anyone know what the gameplay is like?
mirv
07-13-2009, 04:08 AM
Might be good to try this out after work...
Zhick
07-13-2009, 04:35 AM
The Screens look great. I'll try building it, but this:
- Fix all the compiler errors somehow.
Doesn't give me much hope. :P
d2kx
07-13-2009, 07:20 AM
The graphics look amazing!
monraaf
07-13-2009, 07:31 AM
The graphics look good, but don't get your hopes op.


We're not releasing a playable game – you'll have to wait until much later if that's what you're interested in. There are plenty of major missing features and bugs and rough edges.

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The code isn't all extremely clean or extremely modular or extremely well-written. It's been written by a wide variety of programmers, and it's far from a "completed" codebase.
BlackStar
07-13-2009, 09:38 AM
I still remember the discussions on gamedev.net about this game. Awesome music, too. Excited!

Edit: the game's main theme (http://www.symphonicaria.com/mp3_music/Boris%20Hansen%20feat.%20Maggie%20Li%20-%200%20A.D.%20Main%20Theme.mp3).
M1AU
07-13-2009, 12:49 PM
Indeed a great theme and the game looks really nice. Hopefully we'll see a playable version in a few month!
cliff
07-13-2009, 10:10 PM
I still remember the discussions on gamedev.net about this game. Awesome music, too. Excited!

Edit: the game's main theme (http://www.symphonicaria.com/mp3_music/Boris%20Hansen%20feat.%20Maggie%20Li%20-%200%20A.D.%20Main%20Theme.mp3).

Thanks for the link to the music, its nice.
Makes me wish I knew something about programming so I could help out on this project.
Looks awesome.
mirv
07-14-2009, 01:07 PM
They're right about needing to fix a few compile bugs....but I rather suspect that hasn't been a priority for them (as it would, after all, compile on the dev's ssystems).