- Stratagus
Infobox_Software
name = Stratagus
caption =Battle of Survival screenshot
developer = [http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=84903 Stratagus team]
latest_release_version = 2.2.4
latest_release_date = April, 2007
operating_system =BSD ,Linux ,Mac OS X ,Microsoft Windows
genre =Real time strategy
license = GPL
website = [http://stratagus.sourceforge.net/ http://stratagus.sourceforge.net/]"Stratagus" was a free
cross-platform real time strategy game engine used to build other games that is written in C. Lua is used as the configuration language. SDL,gzip andbzip2 are among the external libraries used.History
In
June 15 ,1998 Lutz Sammer released the first public version of a free "Warcraft II" clone forLinux he had written, named "ALE Clone". In 1999 it was renamed to "Freecraft".Because of its history, all Stratagus games currently inherit the "Warcraft II" style gameplay. In June 2003, a
cease and desist letter was received fromBlizzard 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". [ [http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/07/15/stratagus.html | Howard Wen, "Stratagus: Open Source Strategy Games" linuxdevcenter.com July 15, 2004] ] The project halted on June 20, 2003.Soon the developers regrouped to continue the work by the name of "Stratagus", with a change in the aim: former interest in using the data-files from "StarCraft" had diminished; the project using the data-files from "Warcraft II" was split-off into the new and separate project "Wargus" and the free media set imitating "Warcraft II" was discontinued. Development on Stratagus has permanently halted June 6th 2007. [cite web|url=http://stratagus.sourceforge.net/|title=Strategus homepage] The "Stratagus" developers are now working on
Bos Wars , which uses its own modified version of the "Stratagus" engine.Playable "Stratagus" games are: medieval "Battle for Mandicor", "Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness" port "Wargus", futuristic "Battle of Survival" and space age "Astroseries". Of these, only "Wargus" is complete.
Programming
The Stratagus engine is a 2D engine based on a set of pictures in a .pngfile to show animation. This style was commonly used in the time that
RTS had come out.Basing on Lua as their primary scripting language, virtually all the abilities in the engine have been made available so that a user of Stratagus does not have to make changes in the original source unless he wishes to add new features not presently supported by the engine.
Stratagus and Wargus have been ported to run on
PocketPC handhelds.ee also
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Game engine recreation References
External links
* [http://stratagus.sourceforge.net/index.shtml "Stratagus" Homepage]
* [http://www.astroseries.com "Astroseries" Homepage]
* [http://www.boswars.org/index.shtml "BoS Wars" Homepage]
* [http://stargus.sourceforge.net/ "Stargus" Homepage]
* [http://wargus.sourceforge.net/ "Wargus" Homepage]
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