Crossfire (computer game)

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For the Apple II game, see Crossfire (video game).

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Crossfire is an open source software cross platform multiplayer online computer role-playing game.

Crossfire features a tile based graphic system with what is called a pseudo-isometric perspective. All content is licensed under the .GNU General Public License

The client (latest ver. 1.10.0) and server (latest ver. 1.9.1)[1] will run in Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, IRIX, and an array of other platforms.

There's a fork of Crossfire, called Daimonin, which features a different setting, background music and isometric graphics.

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[edit] History

Crossfire has a development history that started back in middle of 1992[2] . It originally started as a Gauntlet clone[3] and developed at the University of Oslo, Norway[4]. After a name change in that same year and brief hosting time at University of California Berkely (Jul-1999 to Jan-2001), the Crossfire project now resides at SourceForge[5] where development continues.

Crossfire started with just one indoor map and then increased to 4 indoor-maps with one-way portals from level 1 to level 4. Upon clearing the last level, there was nothing more for the player to do. Spells were limited to magic bullet (the first spell), fireball, magic missile, burning hands and lightning bolt. Later on, when two-way portals were implemented, development and content contribution took off in all directions.

Crossfire has since grown to encompass over 150 monsters, about 3000 maps to explore, an elaborate magic system, 13 races, 15 character classes, a system of skills, and many artifacts and treasures.

[edit] About the Game

Crossfire has certain flavours from other games, especially Gauntlet and rogue-like games such as Nethack or Angband.

Any number of players can connect and play on the public servers, finding and using items and battling monsters. They can choose to cooperate or compete in the same world which includes both static and randomly generated content.

Crossfire is a client and server based game with the ability to be played on a local network setting or a single computer setup.

[edit] Game Basics

Crossfire is based in a medieval fantasy world and is similar to other games of this genre.

Players can choose any of the 13 races from dragons (fire hatchlings) to quetzalcoatl as well as the more average human and elf. They can also play as one of 15 classes or professions which range from alchemist to a monk to a warrior.

The game consists of a comprehensive skill system that has experience levels in each skill, rather than just general experience points. As a result, it is realistic in that the skills the player uses are the skills that are improved.

Once the character creation process is complete, players enter the game world and pick from the two starting towns - Scorn or Navar. Although there are many quests, the game leans towards hack and slash adventuring with other players. With thousands of different maps spread out over a full-sized continent, the game has plenty of room to explore.

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  1. ^ http://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire
  2. ^ Crossfire v0.8 Announced http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.programmer/msg/b2cf6e4b1d4d9d88?dmode=source
  3. ^ ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/crossfire/historic
  4. ^ http://archives.real-time.com/rte-crossfire/1999/Sep/msg00022.html
  5. ^ http://mailman.metalforge.org/pipermail/crossfire/2001-January/003992.html

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