Stratagus
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| Stratagus | |
 Battle of Survival screenshot |
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| Developer: | Stratagus team |
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| Latest release: | 2.2.3 / March, 2007 |
| OS: | BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows |
| Use: | Real time strategy |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | http://stratagus.sourceforge.net/ |
Stratagus is a free cross-platform real time strategy game engine used to build other games. It is written in C. Lua is used as the configuration language. SDL, gzip and bzip2 are among the external libraries used.
Playable Stratagus games are: medieval Battle for Mandicor; Warcraft II port Wargus; futuristic Battle of Survival and space age Astroseries. Of these, only Wargus and Astroseries are complete.
Because of its history, all Stratagus games currently inherit the Warcraft II style gameplay.
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In June 15, 1998 Lutz Sammer released the first public version of a free Warcraft II clone for Linux he had given birth to, named ALE Clone. In 1999 it was renamed to Freecraft. [1]
On 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. 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. Now the focus is on original free games using the software engine.
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