Free The TA Source Code

Posted by Hemos on Saturday January 12, 2002 @04:16AM from the like-willy dept.

JFL writes " A petition to request that the Total Annihilation source code's current owner, Infogrames, release the code into the public domain is currently in full swing over at the French site TA Forever. " I recently picked up TA again, and played around with it - while the graphics are looking a bit dated, the design for the system is great - a very extensible design system, and one that you could build some interesting environments on top of. The use of height is something that was, and to a certain extent, still far ahead of other RTS^? games.

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Re:The AI by MarcoAtWork · 2002-01-12 05:07 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Even without opening the source code there are AIs around that can shred you to pieces. They do cheat, but they do provide quite a really good challenge.

Check it out here:

http://www.laughingcrowgraphics.com/BSR/ai.html

(BAI2K1, IIRC it even uses nukes!)

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