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Why C++ instead of a higher level language like Python? The developers could focus more on game functionality than C++ bugs and cross platform issues. Performance should not be a big concern for running an old game on modern hardware.
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It's a joke. It's obvious that they want people to contribute, as this follows with: --- To prevent accidental violation of one of those guidelines, you should never * learn git * fork the repo * learn python * learn c++14 * read the code and documentation * contribute anything to the code * contact us cheers, happy hecking. --- The contribution guide in general is pretty well written and welcoming.
Also, "Don't note the irony, you idiot." directly above that.
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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…
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Why C++ instead of a higher level language like Python? The developers could focus more on game functionality than C++ bugs and cross platform issues. Performance should not be a big concern for running an old game on modern hardware.
Rule of thumb suggests that implementing AoE with Python today probably means PyAge2 runs about as well on a 4.5 GHz CPU as AoE2 did on a 266 MHz Pentium II. (not that well)
Also, they do use Python. One of it's advantage is that it's easy to integrate with native code. So you should implement the hot parts in C++.
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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.
Another stupid question: did performance improve in the last ~two or three years? Even on the kinda small maps back then it quickly ran into CPU limits.
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!).
Building a simple 0AD AI would be a fun capstone project.
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.