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0 A.D. Goes Open Source

Posted by Soulskill on from the good-on-ya dept.

DoubleRing writes "Wildfire Games has announced that it will be moving its previously closed development process for 0 A.D. to open source. All code will be released under the GPL and all art under CC-BY-SA. 0 A.D. is a historically-based RTS, and while it's not yet complete, this trailer is purportedly actual gameplay footage. With a codebase of over 150k lines of C++ code plus 25k lines in development tools, this is looking like a fairly promising entrant into the open source RTS field. The screenshots are definitely pretty, to say the least."

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  1. This is the problem! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Waiting over 2000 years for the port is not a sign of success.

  2. Re:Wow, quite impressive looking game by Hyppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a bit of an understatement. Most people would probably agree that Nethack looks a lot better than Freeciv.

  3. Finally... by rtilghman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Access to the often overlooked and underappreciated "Make Dude" command. And on the lord created The Dude, and it was good.

    http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/album_image.php?pic_id=10984

    -rt

  4. Re:What a great thing for Open Source! by Shinobi · · Score: 4, Funny

    The first map hack patch will be out in 1 hour instead of 8 hours.

  5. Re:What the devil? by Xtifr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really? So what about this "Authentic Roman Coin(tm)" I have that is clearly stamped "34 BC"?

    (Apologies to Terry Pratchett for mangling his joke.)