published twenty-sixth alpha release of a free game 0 A.D. , which is a real time strategy with high-quality 3D graphics and gameplay in many respects similar to the games of the “Age of Empires” series. The initial texts of the game were opened by Wildfire Games under the GPL license after 9 years of development as a proprietary product. Assembly of the game is available for linux ( Ubuntu, Gentoo, Debian, Opensuse, Fedora and Arch Linux), freedbsd , openbsd , MacOS and Windows. The current version supports a network game and a single -user game with bots on pre -modeled or dynamically created cards. The game covers more than ten civilizations that existed in the range from 500 BC to 500 AD.
not related to the code components, such as graphic and sound elements, are represented under the license creative comons by-sa , allowing modification and involvement in commercial products, subject to authorship and distribution of work under a similar license. Game engine 0 A.D. It has about 150 thousand lines of code in C ++, for the output of 3D graphics, Opengl is used to work with the sound – Openal, to organize the network game – ENET. From other open projects to create real -time strategies, one can note: glest , Orts , warzone 2100 and Spring .
The main innovations:
- Added a new civilization – Han Empire (The Han), which existed from 206 BC Up to 220 A.D. in China.
- Added new cards: TAMSKAY SLEET and Yangzi .
