Thousand Parsec

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Thousand Parsec
Original author(s)Tim Ansell, Lee Begg
Developer(s)Community
Initial releaseJanuary 2002; 23 years ago (2002-01)
Final release
0.7 / 18 April 2010; 14 years ago (2010-04-18)
GPLv2[1]
WebsiteOfficial website (archived)

Thousand Parsec (TP) is a

turn-based
space empire building games.

Thousand Parsec is a framework for creating a specific group of games, which are often called

Reach for the Stars, Stars!, VGA Planets, Master of Orion and Galactic Civilizations
.

Unlike commercial alternatives, it is designed for long games supporting universes as large as the player's computer can handle. It allows a high degree of player customization, and features a flexible technology system, where new technologies may be introduced mid-game.

History

Development of the project (under a different name) was started in January 2002 by Tim Ansell.

Worldforge" of space empire games. He hoped that this would encourage other people who didn't want to just clone Stars! to help out with the project and give it a broader appeal. After the announcement of the project Lee Begg was the only person who joined it. Lee remained the only other major contributor until early 2007.[5]

By the year 2006 Thousand Parsec had not reached the envisioned goals. Partly the problem had been in the underestimation of the amount of work needed and partly because the project did not initially attract any new developers. Despite these setbacks, Thousand Parsec has a huge code base of framework; according to the

Ohloh the project has had 47 individual contributors.[8]

Progress since late 2006 and early 2007 has been increasing rapidly[9] with a number of new developers joining the project. The project also went on a recruitment drive by running an AI programming competition [10] and active promotion during linux.conf.au.

In 2007 Thousand Parsec was allocated 3 slots in the 2007 Google Summer of Code.[11]

In 2008 Thousand Parsec was fortunate enough to be allocated 8 slots for Google Summer of Code.[12] Projects include three new rulesets, a 3D client, three AI-related projects, and a project to extend the server and create a single-player mode.

In 2009 Thousand Parsec again participated in the Google Summer of Code, being given 7 slots.[13]

Thousand Parsec has had significant success in developing students into full-fledged contributors;

Local developer Eugene Tan, who last year contributed code to the Thousand Parsec project--an open source framework computer game--was invited by the project's lead developer to mentor this year's participants for the project. Tan told ZDNet Asia: "Returning as a mentor is important to me because this is in keeping with the spirit of the open source community, where I am sharing my knowledge and contributing my expertise to collaborate with other programmers to develop better, more innovative applications."

[14]

In August 2010, the project migrated its code repository from

FreeOrion.[15]

Reception

The game was described in-detail in the 2012 book "The Architecture of Open Source Applications".[16]

References

  1. ^ license
  2. ^ "About Thousand Parsec". 2008-03-17. Archived from the original on 2009-03-28. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
  3. ^ Ansell, Tim (2006-01-02). "Thousand Parsec goals and direction". tp-devel (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 2017-03-21.
  4. ^ "itwire: linux.conf.au: Games Linux users play". itwire.com. Archived from the original on 2008-08-28.
  5. ^ "Ohloh Project Stats, Thousand Parsec, Contributors". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
  6. ^ "Ohloh Project Stats, Thousand Parsec, Project Cost". Archived from the original on 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
  7. ^ "Thousand Parsec : Lines of Code". Retrieved 2007-05-27.
  8. ^ "Ohloh Project Stats, Thousand Parsec Contributors". Archived from the original on 2010-04-11.
  9. ^ "Ohloh Project Stats, Thousand Parsec, Code". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
  10. ^ "Thousand Parsec: News - Thousand Parsec AI Programming Competition!". 2007-01-16. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-05-26.
  11. ^ "Thousand Parsec: News - Google Summer of Code Allocations". 2007-04-14. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
  12. ^ "Thousand Parsec: News - Meet Thousand Parsec GSoC 2008 Students". 2008-04-23. Archived from the original on 2008-06-27. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
  13. ^ "Google Summer of Code project list for Thousand Parsec".
  14. zdnet.com. Archived from the original
    on 2009-07-26.
  15. ^ thousandparsec.net/tp (archived)
  16. ISBN 978-1257638017
    .


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