0 A.D. Game Goes Open-Source

[phoronix]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Might be good to try this out after work...

[Zhick]

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]

The graphics look amazing!

[monraaf]

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]

I still remember the discussions on gamedev.net about this game. Awesome music, too. Excited!

Edit: the game's main theme.

[M1AU]

Indeed a great theme and the game looks really nice. Hopefully we'll see a playable version in a few month!