Gambas Genie
From Pigasoftware
Type: Real Time Strategy Engine
Games: Free Empires, Linfarm
License: GNU General Public License
Gambas Genie is a free software real time strategy game engine being written for the Free Empires project. While the Stratagus engine is designed to be like Warcraft, Gambas Genie (abbreviated as GG) is made to be smiler to Ensemble Studio's Genie engine that was used in Age of Empires and Age of Empires II. It is also going to be modified to be more like Zoo Tycoon and Sim-City for Linfarm. It is written in Gambas and as such requires the Gambas Run-Time environment to run. Most of Gambas Genie's code has been written by Graham L. Wilson however it is being developed openly and add ons and upgrades can be added by anyone. Currently it is available in the form of Free Empires: Chiefs and Warriors Source Release 2.0.
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List of Gambas Genie Versions
Version 0.1
As showcased in Free Empires: Chiefs and Warriors Source Release 1.0, including basic features and objects.
Version 0.2
As showcased in Free Empires: Chiefs and Warriors Source Release 2.0, expanding the objects and features it can support.
Version 0.3
This is the upcoming version that is to be showcased in Free Empires: Chiefs and Warriors Source Release 3.0, and is to be rewritten from scratch to provide a more "stable" game engine. It is going to support true object rendering, module levels, and texturing; some features from 0.2 may not be present in 0.3 but they will all be present in 0.4 (as well as many more). For many months all that has been released about its development has been vague statements on the Piga Software Forum. However in early August 2008 news about great advancements towards the major goals was released as well as a new development shot showing an alignment of Villagers in the form of "FE! Piga". An "insane promise" of a release date is by December 2008, the offical release date is "When it is Done".
Gambas Genie Games
Free Empires is a project to recreate Age of Empires for GNU/Linux.
Linfarm is being made in the style of Zoo Tycoon and Sim-City. You control a farm and attempt to gain a profit.
