After almost three years of lull the twenty-fourth alpha release of free play 0 AD , which is a real-time strategy game with high-quality 3D graphics and gameplay very similar to the games in the Age of Empires series. The game’s source code was released by Wildfire Games under the GPL after 9 years of development as a proprietary product. The game build is available for Linux ( Ubuntu, Gentoo, Debian, openSUSE, Fedora and Arch Linux), FreeBSD , OpenBSD , macOS and Windows. The current version supports network play and single-player play with bots on pre-modeled or dynamically generated maps. The game covers more than ten civilizations ranging from 500 BC to 500 AD.
Non-code-related components of the game, such as graphics and sound elements, are licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA , allowing modification and use in commercial products, provided that the authorship and distribution of derivative works under a similar license. Game Engine 0 A.D. has about 150 thousand lines of code in C ++, OpenGL is used to output 3D graphics, OpenAL is used to work with sound, and ENet is used to organize a network game. Other open source projects for creating real-time strategies include: Glest , ORTS , Warzone 2100 and Spring .
Major innovations:
- Taking into account the experience of some famous players, the parameters of all units and structures have been adjusted to achieve a more balanced and smoother gameplay. For example, heroes can now be trained only once, and stables for training cavalry and chariots, and an arsenal for building siege machines have been added for all civilizations. Women and militias are allowed to mortgage buildings.
- Added the ability to snap buildings to anchor buildings next to each other.
- Anti-aliasing support is implemented in the rendering engine. Depending on the capabilities of the GPU, a choice is provided between FXAA
