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Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

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Re: Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

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Post by gosub »

mdf wrote: post #10

It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s). Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3] and OpenRCT2[4] listed on openage's GitHub page, lots of others exist. To name a few: * OpenXcom[5] for X-COM: Enemy Unknown and the later Terror From the Deep games. * Nuvie[6], Exult[7] and P…

one of the last tweets from @_why said: if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.

Re: Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

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Post by adsche »

mdf wrote: post #10

It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s). Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3] and OpenRCT2[4] listed on openage's GitHub page, lots of others exist. To name a few: * OpenXcom[5] for X-COM: Enemy Unknown and the later Terror From the Deep games. * Nuvie[6], Exult[7] and P…

Amazing indeed. I'd add to that list OpenJK for the Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast games [1]. This is actually based on the released original source code, but continues to improve it and fix bugs while maintaining backwards compatibility. Great work. (As with most of these, assets from original CD are needed to play.)

[1] https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK

Re: Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

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Post by sachdevap »

mdf wrote: post #10

It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s). Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3] and OpenRCT2[4] listed on openage's GitHub page, lots of others exist. To name a few: * OpenXcom[5] for X-COM: Enemy Unknown and the later Terror From the Deep games. * Nuvie[6], Exult[7] and P…

There is also the clone for Caesar III. Found here: https://bitbucket.org/dalerank/caesaria/wiki/Home

One of my favorite games and Caesaria, last I checked had some bugs, but pretty playable.

Re: Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

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Post by [deleted] »

mdf wrote: post #10

It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s). Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3] and OpenRCT2[4] listed on openage's GitHub page, lots of others exist. To name a few: * OpenXcom[5] for X-COM: Enemy Unknown and the later Terror From the Deep games. * Nuvie[6], Exult[7] and P…

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Re: Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

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Post by dschep »

mdf wrote: post #10

It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s). Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3] and OpenRCT2[4] listed on openage's GitHub page, lots of others exist. To name a few: * OpenXcom[5] for X-COM: Enemy Unknown and the later Terror From the Deep games. * Nuvie[6], Exult[7] and P…

And CorsixTH for Theme Hospital!

https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH

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Post by lagudragu »

qznc wrote: post #17
mdf wrote: post #10

It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s). Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3] and OpenRCT2[4] listed on openage's GitHub page, lots of others exist. To name a few: * OpenXcom[5] for X-COM: Enemy Unknown and the later Terror From the Deep games. * Nuvie[6], Exult[7] and P…

The longest list I know of is http://osgameclones.com/

Great list!

Re: Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

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Post by dafrankenstein2 »

gosub wrote: post #21
mdf wrote: post #10

It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s). Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3] and OpenRCT2[4] listed on openage's GitHub page, lots of others exist. To name a few: * OpenXcom[5] for X-COM: Enemy Unknown and the later Terror From the Deep games. * Nuvie[6], Exult[7] and P…

one of the last tweets from @_why said: if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.

said right

Re: Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

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Post by bsharitt »

mdf wrote: post #10

It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s). Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3] and OpenRCT2[4] listed on openage's GitHub page, lots of others exist. To name a few: * OpenXcom[5] for X-COM: Enemy Unknown and the later Terror From the Deep games. * Nuvie[6], Exult[7] and P…

Don't forget Stratagus(formerly FreeCraft).

Re: Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

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Post by unicornporn »

mdf wrote: post #10

It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s). Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3] and OpenRCT2[4] listed on openage's GitHub page, lots of others exist. To name a few: * OpenXcom[5] for X-COM: Enemy Unknown and the later Terror From the Deep games. * Nuvie[6], Exult[7] and P…

Don't forget http://www.freecol.org/

Re: Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

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Post by sjmulder »

KuhlMensch wrote: post #13

Why does the screenshot have one tile have Gabe Newell in it? is it a dig at an ex-microsoftian or something?

I suppose it's full of Newell references. Found this when browsing the renderer:

    GameRenderer::~GameRenderer() { 
     	// oh noes, release hl3 before that! 
     	delete this->gaben;
https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/blob/master/libopenage/ga...
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