0 A.D. [Official Site] has a change in leadership with Erik stepping down, but work continues on and the new Alpha is already shaping up.
I love 0 A.D. even at this early stage. It is still rather rough, but even release really does bring it forward dramatically. It is one of the most promising open source games available right now.
They have showed off some new animations being worked on, which looks really quite good:
They will include a new unit, the Seleucid Champion Elephant:
They are also starting to include more buildings having a construction in progress model which looks great:
The AI will also now properly support the new Last Man Standing game-mode.
Plenty more on the way for Alpha 22, as the development for it has only just begun. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I love 0 A.D. even at this early stage. It is still rather rough, but even release really does bring it forward dramatically. It is one of the most promising open source games available right now.
They have showed off some new animations being worked on, which looks really quite good:
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They will include a new unit, the Seleucid Champion Elephant:
They are also starting to include more buildings having a construction in progress model which looks great:
The AI will also now properly support the new Last Man Standing game-mode.
Plenty more on the way for Alpha 22, as the development for it has only just begun. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Kimyrielle Dec 3, 2016
Glad to see this project is going on. This is one of the very, VERY few commercial quality open source games (I can't even think of a second right now, but there probably is one). Most look as if a 5 year old did the art (*cough* FreeCiv...). But 0AD is really beautiful and professionally done.
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Quoting: KimyrielleThis is one of the very, VERY few commercial quality open source games (I can't even think of a second right now, but there probably is one). Most look as if a 5 year old did the art (*cough* FreeCiv...).
Battle for Wesnoth (very nice 2D IMO), SuperTuxKart, FlightGear… There are some with somehow decent graphics, but looking old, like MegaGlest. Anyway, there is quite a few open-source games that are good quality (better than some commercial titles), and there’s even more free-as-in-beer with FOSS engine and not-open art (eg. AssaultCube).
But I agree, most of the FOSS games do look like games from decades ago, or as if they were done by people without any graphics experience.
That’s understandable, as some of them are projects started some time ago, and even though are still under some development, didn’t age well (UFO:AI?, Warzone 2100, aforementioned MegaGlest) – I worry that by the time 0AD leaves alpha stage into beta stage, it’s gonna be visibly aged too.
Last edited by silmeth on 3 December 2016 at 10:16 pm UTC
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Xonotic (based on Nexuiz) has pretty decent graphics. Used to play loads of Nexuiz a few years back.
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