And now a brief break from business-oriented coverage on WorksWithU. As
a history Ph.D. student by day and free-software geek by night, I find
that my poles of interest rarely converge. That's why I was so excited
when the real-time historical strategy game 0 A.D. was switched to an
open-source license in July. I've been meaning since then to give it a
try, and finally found the time and hardware necessary to do that. Here
are the results.
Set in antiquity and designed with historical accuracy as a priority, 0
A.D. is a real-time strategy game that supports Linux, Windows and OS X.
The developers, Wildfire Games, originally intended to distribute it as
freeware, but decided to open-source the code last summer in hopes that
it would speed the development process.
The game is not yet really playable, but it runs. Here are some
screenshots:
Go there...
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/10/13/0-ad-promises-real-gaming-for-ubuntu/
Don
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