FreeRails, Sister Project of FreeCiv

lukel writes: "Recently development on the freerails project - an open source Railroad Tycoon like game - has been making good progress. Clients are being written in C++ (SDL/Qt) and Java. There are screenshots, notes on design, and a wish list on the homepage We're still in the early stages of development - slashdotter's insight please!"

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Nifty

[HongPong]

Very interesting, and I hope to see good results from it in the future. I observe, however, that at this point the art is pretty tacky looking, though obviously that will improve with time. I suggest doing as many other games of this type have, with terrain tiles make about 3 or 4 random pics for the same tile. I do so love trains. :) Are there going to be other terrain sets, IE the southwest, the sahara, mountains? It'd be a pity if it's just generic greenery-land. For me, games like this are all about simulating the surroundings too.