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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. Re:What the devil? by vertinox · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's called suspension of disbelief, and there are times when it's a good thing.

    If I, the player, have to actively suspend belief at the expense of my self esteem, the entertainment has failed.

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