Stratagus
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Developer(s) | Stratagus team |
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Initial release | June 15, 1998 |
Stable release | 3.3.2
/ August 10, 2022[1] |
Linux as gaming platform | |
License | GPL-2.0-only |
Website | stratagus |
Stratagus is a
History
On June 15, 1998 Lutz Sammer released the first public version of a free Warcraft II clone for Linux he had written, named ALE Clone. In 1999 it was renamed to Freecraft.[3] In June 2003, a cease and desist letter was received from Blizzard Entertainment, who thought the name Freecraft could cause confusion with the names StarCraft and Warcraft, and that some of the ideas within the engine were too similar to Warcraft II.[4] The project halted on June 20, 2003.[5]
The developers regrouped in 2004[6] to continue work on the project, renaming it Stratagus. Their focus changed from cloning Warcraft II to creating an open source, configurable engine for RTS games including support for playing over Internet/LAN or playing vs. computer opponents.[7] A separate project, Wargus, was started to get Warcraft II data files running in the Stratagus engine. This mod requires a legal copy of Warcraft II and allows for cross-platform support such as Linux and other operating systems. The free media set imitating Warcraft II was discontinued.[8]
On June 10, 2007, development of Stratagus was paused.[9]
The Stratagus developers began working on
In June 2010 some of the developers moved Stratagus project from
Playable Stratagus-based games are: fantasy Aleona's Tales,
Programming
The Stratagus engine is a 2D engine based on
and others.Basing on
had come out.Stratagus and Wargus have been
Reception
Stratagus was downloaded from
See also
References
- ^ releases on github.com
- Debian.org
- ^ "FreeCraft - A free real-time strategy game engine". freecraft.org:80. Archived from the original on April 26, 2003. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
- ^ "Howard Wen, Stratagus: Open Source Strategy Games linuxdevcenter.com July 15, 2004". Linuxdevcenter.com. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ "FreeCraft domain(s) for sell". Archived from the original on June 21, 2003.
- ^ stratagus news (2004)
- ^ "Stratagus in Launchpad". launchpad.net. July 27, 2010. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- ^ "Stratagus". LinuxDevCenter. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- sourceforge.net.
- ^ Wargus/stratagus on GitHub
- ^ Aleona's Tales (Stratagus game) – Free Gamer
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- ^ "Bos Wars". FOSSForUs. November 1, 2011. Archived from the original on December 16, 2010. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ Bos Wars – Softpedia
- ^ Andrew (November 28, 2009). "Commander Stalin: Real Time Strategy Game". Web Upd8. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ "Commander Stalin: Open Source Free Strategy Game". open-tube. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
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- ^ Commander Stalin Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Tux Blog: Linux Software & Games Reviews.
- ^ "n0p's homepage". Archived from the original on July 12, 2012.
- ^ "Stratagus for Android homepage".
- SourceForge.net(May 2019)