On June 15, 1998 Lutz Sammer released the first public version of a free Warcraft IIclone for Linux he had written, named ALE Clone. In 1999 it was renamed to Freecraft.[3] In 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.[4] The project halted on June 20, 2003.[5]
The developers regrouped in 2004[6] to continue work on the project, renaming it Stratagus. Their focus changed from cloning Warcraft II to creating an open source, configurable engine for RTS games including support for playing over Internet/LAN or playing vs. computer opponents.[7] A separate project, Wargus, was started to get Warcraft II data files running in the Stratagus engine. This mod requires a legal copy of Warcraft II and allows for cross-platform support such as Linux and other operating systems. The free media set imitating Warcraft II was discontinued.[8]
On June 10, 2007, development of Stratagus was paused.[9]
The Stratagus developers began working on Bos Wars, which uses its own modified version of the Stratagus engine.
In June 2010 some of the developers moved Stratagus project from SourceForge to Launchpad and started working on Stratagus and games again. Wargus (for Warcraft II), War1gus (for Warcraft I) and Stargus (for Starcraft) continued to be developed by the Stratagus team on Launchpad. In 2014, Wyrmgus started as a fork from the Stratagus engine to develop a strategy game based on free assets with a wider scope than the original engine allowed. The Stratagus team has since also moved to GitHub.[10]
Playable Stratagus-based games are: fantasy Aleona's Tales,[11] medieval Battle for Mandicor,[12][13]Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (plus expansion Beyond the Dark Portal) port Wargus, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans port War1gus, futuristic Battle of Survival,[14][15][16][17][18][19] historically-inspired Commander Stalin,[20][21][22][23][24]StarCraft port Stargus, and space age Astroseries. Of these, only Aleona's Tales, Wargus, War1gus, and Wyrmsun are complete.
Basing on Lua as their primary scripting language, virtually all the abilities in the engine have been made available to the users of Stratagus for easy modding, removing the need to change the original C/C++ source. Animations are created from a set of .png pictures; this technique was commonly used in the time that Warcraft and other RTS had come out.
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likely to be merged redirected or deleted Find sources Stratagus news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message Stratagus is a free and open source cross platform game engine used to build real time strategy video games Licensed under the GNU GPL 2 0 only 2 it is written mostly in C with the configuration language being Lua StratagusDeveloper s Stratagus teamInitial releaseJune 15 1998 25 years ago 1998 06 15 Stable release3 3 2 August 10 2022 19 months ago 2022 08 10 1 Repositorygithub wbr com wbr Wargus wbr stratagusWritten inC Operating systemAmigaOS 4 BSD Linux Mac OS X MorphOS AROS WindowsTypeGame engineLinux as gaming platformLicenseGPL 2 0 onlyWebsitestratagus wbr comBattle of Survival screenshot Contents 1 History 2 Programming 3 Reception 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksHistory edit nbsp Battle for Mandicor screenshot 2005 On June 15 1998 Lutz Sammer released the first public version of a free Warcraft II clone for Linux he had written named ALE Clone In 1999 it was renamed to Freecraft 3 In 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 4 The project halted on June 20 2003 5 The developers regrouped in 2004 6 to continue work on the project renaming it Stratagus Their focus changed from cloning Warcraft II to creating an open source configurable engine for RTS games including support for playing over Internet LAN or playing vs computer opponents 7 A separate project Wargus was started to get Warcraft II data files running in the Stratagus engine This mod requires a legal copy of Warcraft II and allows for cross platform support such as Linux and other operating systems The free media set imitating Warcraft II was discontinued 8 On June 10 2007 development of Stratagus was paused 9 The Stratagus developers began working on Bos Wars which uses its own modified version of the Stratagus engine In June 2010 some of the developers moved Stratagus project from SourceForge to Launchpad and started working on Stratagus and games again Wargus for Warcraft II War1gus for Warcraft I and Stargus for Starcraft continued to be developed by the Stratagus team on Launchpad In 2014 Wyrmgus started as a fork from the Stratagus engine to develop a strategy game based on free assets with a wider scope than the original engine allowed The Stratagus team has since also moved to GitHub 10 Playable Stratagus based games are fantasy Aleona s Tales 11 medieval Battle for Mandicor 12 13 Warcraft II Tides of Darkness plus expansion Beyond the Dark Portal port Wargus Warcraft Orcs and Humans port War1gus futuristic Battle of Survival 14 15 16 17 18 19 historically inspired Commander Stalin 20 21 22 23 24 StarCraft port Stargus and space age Astroseries Of these only Aleona s Tales Wargus War1gus and Wyrmsun are complete Programming editThe Stratagus engine is a 2D engine based on cross platform open source libraries like SDL gzip bzip2 and others Basing on Lua as their primary scripting language virtually all the abilities in the engine have been made available to the users of Stratagus for easy modding removing the need to change the original C C source Animations are created from a set of a href png html class mw redirect title png png a pictures this technique was commonly used in the time that Warcraft and other RTS had come out Stratagus and Wargus have been ported to run on Pocket PC 25 Symbian and Android 26 devices Wargus has also been ported to the GP2X and Open Pandora Linux handhelds Reception editStratagus was downloaded from SourceForge net between 2004 and June 2017 over 185 000 times 27 See also edit nbsp Free and open source software portal nbsp Video games portal nbsp Amiga portalGame engine recreation bnetdReferences edit releases on github com Stratagus s copyfile permanent dead link at Debian Packages on Debian org FreeCraft A free real time strategy game engine freecraft org 80 Archived from the original on April 26 2003 Retrieved January 12 2022 Howard Wen Stratagus Open Source Strategy Games linuxdevcenter com July 15 2004 Linuxdevcenter com Retrieved November 20 2011 FreeCraft domain s for sell Archived from the original on June 21 2003 stratagus news 2004 Stratagus in Launchpad launchpad net July 27 2010 Retrieved April 27 2018 Stratagus LinuxDevCenter Retrieved November 20 2011 Stratagus homepage sourceforge net Wargus stratagus on GitHub Aleona s Tales Stratagus game Free Gamer Battle for Mandicor Filewatcher Archived from the original on September 23 2009 Retrieved January 29 2010 Battle for Mandicor FreshPorts Retrieved November 20 2011 Bos Wars EeeSite December 12 2007 Archived from the original on February 27 2012 Retrieved November 20 2011 Bos Wars Software Informer Bos wars software informer com April 15 2009 Retrieved November 20 2011 Bos Wars LinuxLinks April 7 2011 Retrieved November 20 2011 Bos Wars Moblin org Garage moblin org Archived from the original on February 3 2010 Retrieved November 20 2011 Bos Wars FOSSForUs November 1 2011 Archived from the original on December 16 2010 Retrieved November 20 2011 Bos Wars Softpedia Andrew November 28 2009 Commander Stalin Real Time Strategy Game Web Upd8 Retrieved November 20 2011 Commander Stalin Open Source Free Strategy Game open tube Retrieved November 20 2011 Commander Stalin FOSSForUs November 1 2011 Archived from the original on December 16 2010 Retrieved November 20 2011 Commander Stalin Archived December 7 2008 at the Wayback Machine Softpedia Commander Stalin Archived July 21 2011 at the Wayback Machine Tux Blog Linux Software amp Games Reviews n0p s homepage Archived from the original on July 12 2012 Stratagus for Android homepage stats 2000 06 07 to 2019 on SourceForge net May 2019 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stratagus Official website nbsp Stratagus at Launchpad Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Stratagus amp oldid 1186617444, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
