0 A.D. Goes Open Source

DoubleRing writes "Wildfire Games has announced that it will be moving its previously closed development process for 0 A.D. to open source. All code will be released under the GPL and all art under CC-BY-SA. 0 A.D. is a historically-based RTS, and while it's not yet complete, this trailer is purportedly actual gameplay footage. With a codebase of over 150k lines of C++ code plus 25k lines in development tools, this is looking like a fairly promising entrant into the open source RTS field. The screenshots are definitely pretty, to say the least."

This is the problem!

[Anonymous Coward]

Waiting over 2000 years for the port is not a sign of success.

Re:Wow, quite impressive looking game

[Hyppy]

That's a bit of an understatement. Most people would probably agree that Nethack looks a lot better than Freeciv.

Re:Wow, quite impressive looking game

[godrik]

I don't know. My 80x24 serial terminal does not allow me to play Freeciv.

Finally...

[rtilghman]

Access to the often overlooked and underappreciated "Make Dude" command. And on the lord created The Dude, and it was good.

http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/album_image.php?pic_id=10984 [wildfiregames.com]

-rt

Re:What a great thing for Open Source!

[Shinobi]

The first map hack patch will be out in 1 hour instead of 8 hours.

Re:Finally...

[geminidomino]

And on the lord created The Dude, and it was good.

http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/album_image.php?pic_id=10984 [wildfiregames.com]

-rt

Shut the fuck up, Donny.

Re:What the devil?

[Anonymous Coward]

If utilising your imagination leads to automatic loss of all of your self esteem, perhaps you need more self esteem.

Re:What the devil?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's called suspension of disbelief, and there are times when it's a good thing. Situations may include books, movies, video games, and other works of fiction.

You forgot elections.

Re:Lines of code....

[Eudial]

It's a metric used to give you a fair idea of how big something is. Like libraries of congress, or Olympic swimming pools. Naturally, just how much actual useful code there is per line varies.

• If you set a physicist to write a program, he will give you 15,000 lines of Fortran code that (probably) runs reasonably fast, but is completely useless for any other task, and contains copypasta from previous programs in which what little comments there are make no sense what so ever in this new context, and 80% of the code has nothing to do with the current problem at all.
• A professional programmer does the same in 150 lines of C++ code. It runs reasonably fast, and it's easy to use it to solve similar problems.
• A computer scientist writes a koan-like one-liner in Haskell. It runs 100 times faster than any of the above solutions, but unfortunately, since nobody knows what the hell the code is doing, it's not re-usable.

Re:What the devil?

[Xtifr]

Really? So what about this "Authentic Roman Coin(tm)" I have that is clearly stamped "34 BC"?

(Apologies to Terry Pratchett for mangling his joke.)