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At Long Last: Stable Version of FreeCraft Game Engine

Posted by timothy on from the go-forth-and-conquer dept.

jimmcq writes: "After two years of active development the long awaited stable release of FreeCraft is available. FreeCraft is a free cross-platform real-time strategy gaming engine. It is possible to play against human opponents over LAN, internet, or against the computer. The engine can be used to build C&C, WC2, SC and AOE-like real-time strategy (RTS) games. It successfully runs under Linux, BSD, BeOS, MacOS/X, MacOS/Darwin and MS Windows. Souce code and binaries are available from SourceForge."

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  1. More free games! by TakeMyName · · Score: 1, Funny

    We Need more free games now a days. Great Work!

  2. How long before Vivendi sues by Aexia · · Score: 4, Funny

    for circumventing their fun-generation process by bypassing the purchase of their products? Releasing something for free? Why they're practically thieves!

  3. BTW by ObviousGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are those little faces various representations of RMS? I'm serious!

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  4. Re:Looks Great, Needs Graphic Artist by nonos · · Score: 2, Funny

    No ! A ascii version is all what we need !

  5. Oh dear. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's face it, this makes the original Warcraft look good.

  6. Re:Can't wait, but... by Decimal · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd much rather see something fresh and new, with its own identity. A whole new game with its own units, storyline, game world, and so forth.

    Sounds good. What have you come up with?

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  7. Re: Does art work in Open-Source? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's much more likely that artists (in the painting/sculpting sense) get laid on average infinity times more often than geeks. This leaves them little time to devote to creating art for its own sake.

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  8. souce code? by zozzi · · Score: 2, Funny
    [snip] The engine can be used to build C&C, WC2, SC and AOE-like real-time strategy (RTS) games. It successfully runs under Linux, BSD, BeOS, MacOS/X, MacOS/ Darwin and MS Windows. Souce code and binaries are available from

    Souce code? Yum yum!

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  9. Re:Does art work in Open-Source? by evilviper · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'll be avoiding this one :)

    Oh, wait... You must not have heard about their 30 day money back guarantee. But you have to act right now before this offer expires.

    And, just because they really want you to try this game, they'll throw in, at no additional cost, an operating system on which to play it. And even if you decide to return the game for you full refund, they'll let you keep the operating system as a free gift, just they're way of saying 'thanks' for trying the game. So ACT NOW!
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  10. Do you smell what Vivendi's cookin? by hage · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I'm sorry, but the word 'craft' is a licensed subsidiary of Vivendi Universal, Inc. Please go directly to legal hell. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, and please, please please don't call a lawyer, ok?"

  11. Re:license by kubrick · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would have like to have it released under the LGPL license so I could use it w/o GPL'ing my game.

    "For those concerned about the 'virality' of the GPL, a suggestion: Write Your Own Damn Code."

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  12. That's not fair by pommiekiwifruit · · Score: 4, Funny

    at my work there's a coder who gets laid at least three times a weekend by interested parties. He also washes regularly and wears clothes he bought in this century.

    Of course, everyone just assumes he's an artist...