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Open-source clone of the Age of Empires II engine

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Re: Open-source clone of the Age of Empires II engine

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Post by mikejmoffitt »

opsroller wrote: post #24
jstimpfle wrote: post #2

AoE2 is the one game I play regularly. It's great that this project was started, but is it still active? Did anyone manage to compile and run it, and if so, how does it feel? Not to belittle the nice work, but I feel there was a better reason for making this clone a few years ago. There has been a "HD" version on Steam for a couple of years, which finally has good network support and most of the bugs seem ironed out,…

Runs better on wine than it does on windows.

Citation needed. In my experience, running AoE2HD in Wine results in strange mouse errors at the start of a match which can ruin a game (where the screen is stuck scrolling to one side).

Re: Open-source clone of the Age of Empires II engine

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Post by craftyguy »

mschwaig wrote: post #17
craftyguy wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The link shows that the last commit was a week ago... so, yes, it's still active. It compiles and runs, provided you have access to the media assets. It still needs work though. Having a FLOSS engine for this game is more desirable than having to rely on a proprietary mess like Steam to play AOE2. So I hope this project is eventually successful.

I had a look at some .NET code integrating steam once and the integration itself looked quite clean and lightweight. I'd be interested if people got banned or something like that for modifying games when they were clearly not hacking/cheating/cracking/impacting the experience of others. From DSfix for Dark Souls I know that it can be fine with them if you hook function calls to improve rendering for example. I imagin…

This project has nothing to do with Steam, other than perhaps (optionally) using the assets from the steam version of AOE2 HD, but it doesn't interface or interact with Steam at all AFAIK.

Re: Open-source clone of the Age of Empires II engine

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Post by axaxs »

SEJeff wrote: post #21

As a longtime fan of Age of Empires, I have absolutely fallen in love with the open source 0ad clone. http://play0ad.com/ The AI is surprisingly good, and the character models are as good as Age of Empires. Bonus points that it is in all major Linux distro repositories if you're one of those kinds of people (like me!).

Honest question... did it get better recently? I tried it years ago... and the AI was non existent...as in, I built up an army and went to explore, only to find my enemy had like 4 peasants.

Re: Open-source clone of the Age of Empires II engine

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Post by Scriptor »

pwaai wrote: post #35

In case this wasn't posted, here is an index of all open source clones. https://osgameclones.com/ It doesn't list OpenAge there yet but shows 0ad instead. I wonder if we'll ever see Total War 1 clone as well as a Civ 5 clone.

Seems like OpenAge is just a clone of the engine, not a full standalone game like 0ad.
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