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Call to Power 2 To Get Open Sourced?

Posted by simoniker on from the call-to-code-freedom dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Winnie Lee (st_swithin), who did the GUI programming for CTP2, has announced at Apolyton Civilization Site that Call to Power 2 should become available as open source in the near future. She says the news comes 'straight from the horse's mouth', as well as the lead, network, and gamestate programmers. This ends a month-long hunt and negotiation for the code with Activision." This looks close to a done deal, and is excellent news for strategy gamers and fans of this Civilization-related title if everything comes through.

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  1. Oh great, just what my addiction needs by wowbagger · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've started playing CivCTP once again, and had that truly amazing experience of:

    17:00 - I'll just play a quick little bit here while I wait for dinner to cook....
    19:00 - What's that smell - oh wait, I just got that War Walker build, MUHAHAHAH
    01:00 - Shit! - and I've got that meeting with the customer tomor^WToday!

    Now an open source CivCTP2 is announced - so not only can I play, I can hack. Great - now I can spend days creating the GPL Wonder and playtesting it....

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  2. Some suggestions by sirmikester · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Some suggestions for use of the code :

    1. Use it to improve freeciv
    2. Continue developing it making improvements and such
    3. Add the code into emacs so it can have a civ mode

    Either way we all benefit!

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    1. Re:Some suggestions by Poofat · · Score: 5, Funny

      3. Add the code into emacs so it can have a civ mode

      Don't forget to add it to mozilla too, no one wants it to fall behind in the bloatrace.