Die Entdeckung von Freeciv für ein kleines LAN-Match schenkte Ric und mir in letzter Zeit einige spannende Abende.

Das gänzlich freie, unter der GPL stehende Computerspiel überzeugt durch eine mittlerweile ansehnliche auf dem GTK basierende Oberfläche, die Freeciv wie eine ansehnliche Hommage an die ersten beiden Versionen des Klassikers erinnern.

Während der Client, welchen Ric unter MacOS X verwendet, mit einigen Einschränkungen läuft, finde ich im Gegensatz zu ihm eine sehr übersichtlich gestaltete Oberfläche vor. Der Windows-Client bietet beispielsweise bereits einen sehr übersichtlichen Technologiebaum. Ferner ist die Städteübersicht ist sehr nützlich. Außerdem kann ich im Gegensatz zu Ric bereits Bürgermeister einsetzen.

Allerdings haben weder Ric noch ich die aktuellen, stabilen Quellen übersetzt, sondern sind auf verfügbare Installationspakte ausgewichen. Inwiefern zwischen den jeweiligen Quellen noch ein Unterschied zu beobachten ist, muss noch in Erfahrung gebracht werden.

Obwohl sich FreeCiv im Netzwerkspiel als sehr unterhaltsam herausgestellt hat, fehlen mir die aus dem kommerziellen Civilization IV bekannten Konzepte wie Kulturkampf und Religion. Die Dokumenation des freien Spiels ist übrigens relativ gut gediegen.  Einzig die Liste der verfügbaren Kommandos für den civserver haben wir nicht auf Anhieb entdeckt.

오늘도 50%정전갤인 전시갤에 있는 좆ㅋ망ㅋ한 내 리뷰를 보는 훃아들에게 감사해.
이번엔 그 감사의 표시로 좆ㅋ망ㅋ리뷰 외전을 준비했어.



요즘 갱제가 갱제다보니 돈이 없는 훃들 많을거야. 슬프게도 좀 할만한 게임은 없거나 가격이 촙내 비싸고…..그렇다고 복돌이짓 하려니 복돌이짓은 하기싫고….. 그런 훃들을 위해서 내가 준비했어.



이제 나올 게임은 GNU/GPL 라이센스로, 무료 다운로드가 가능한 오픈소스 전시겜들이야.



1. FreeCiv



이건 문명 2와 3을 젖절하게 조합한 클론버젼이야. 최근에 리눅스를 써봤거나 리눅스를 써본 훃들은 한번 해봤을법한 게임일거야. 요즘 나오는 문명시리즈보단 못하지만 그래도 할만해. 리눅스판은 한글화가 되었던데 윈도우판은 어떤지 모르겠어.





주소 http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page



2. FreeCol



이건 예전부터 전시겜을 해본 훃들은 알고있을지도 모르겠어. 이 게임은 콜로나제이션이라는 게임의 클론이야. 참고로 콜로나제이션 원판은 나중에 문명4 엔진을 이용해서 프락시스 게임즈에서 리메이크 했어. Freecol의 현재 버젼은 0.8.3이야. 제작자들의 말에 따르면 1.0.0까지는 콜로나제이션을 완벽하게 복원하는데 치중하고, 1.0.0 이후로는 기존 콜로나제이션에 없었던 추가기능을 제공할거래.





주소 http://www.freecol.org/download.html



3. TA Spring



아마 다 알거라고 생각해. 토탈 어나이얼레이션의 풀 3D RTS화 계획.





주소 http://springrts.com/wiki/Download



4. Bos Wars



이거는 아마 C&C 비슷한 RTS류인듯해 .





주소 http://www.boswars.org/download.shtml



혹시 훃들이 알고있는 오픈소스 라이센스의 게임이 있다면 댓글 부탁할께~

Como insisté un poco en presencia de Michael Garrido y de Fernando P. García sobre el hecho de que hay muy poco conocimiento de que hay juegos bajo Ubuntu o bajo Linux en general, y que además algunos de ellos son muy buenos, pues me invitó Michael a dar una charla en el Ubuntu 9.04 Release Party en Lima, por una vez no sobre software libre, estandares, e-learning, web development or Dokeos, pero sobre juegos libres! Fue la primera charla que dí sobre juegos de software libre, y ya me dí cuenta de que faltaba poner algunas videos más, pero creo que les interesará ver las diapositivas…

Y bueno… aun que no haya sónido interesante en estas, me parece una buena idea de colgar las pequenitas videos que he filmado rápido para mostrar los juegos de manera un poco más dinámica.

Edición 2009-05-30: Antes de dejarles con estas videos, tengo que mencionar que acabo de encontrar la página de juegos de la comunidad franco-hablante de Ubuntu y que vale la pena de darle un vistazo. Aunque esté en Francés, es bien ilustrada y hay montones de juegos, con una categorización en iconos (libres/sin costo/…)

Nuovo aggiornamento per FreeCiv che giunge alla release 2.1.9. Noto gioco di strategia incentrato sulla civilizzazione (Licenza: GPL OS: Intrepid Ibex 32/64bits, Formato: Deb).

Fonte/Download: GetDeb

This week I am covering the open source project Free Civ. If you are a fan of the Civilization games or a strategy game guru then you will love this game. This is an open source project that has IMO really improved upon what it set out to do. This game not only captures the game style and features of the Civilization series but also adds to some buy adding in a ton of new nations to play and leaders to chose from. Now do not get me wrong this game is not with out it’s faults. For one the Ai is not quite up to par as the ones from the official games, but it will still give you a run for your money on the harder levels. While there is a lot more options for graphic mods in this game then I have seen for any of the official Civ games the graphics them self are more old school, but given the type of game it is it is not even a factor that effects game play in my opinion. the game does have some major advantages to it how ever. One major advantage is that you can take the game where ever you go via your flash drive. That is right the game is portable. another major advantage is that because the game is open source there is a host of mods for the game and people always working on improving it which not only adds to the overall life span of the game ( I.E. no worries that the game will no longer get updates a month after you buy it because there working on a new game). Also because this game is open source there is versions for not only windows, but MAC and Linux destros as well. It is not big at all ( i think installed it is like 50 megs so there is no need to worry about large amounts of free space if your on an older computer. Also because of the graphics there is no need to worry your computer will not run the game for the most part. Over all this game is one of the best open source projects I have seen in a long time. If your looking for a good free way to spend a few hours you should definitely give this game a try.

FreeCIv main page

Nuovo aggiornamento per FreeCiv che giunge alla release 2.1.8. Noto gioco di strategia incentrato sulla civilizzazione (Licenza: GPL OS: Intrepid Ibex 32/64bits, Formato: Deb).

Fonte/Download: GetDeb

The other day I was looking for a game and Freeciv caught my eye. There are a number of ways to get it for Ubuntu:

• Repositories (2.1.5)
• Playdeb (2.1.6)
• Getdeb (2.1.7)
• Source (2.1.8)

I tried the getdeb package, but had a strange problem with a disappearing main menu. So I thought I would give installing from source a try.

Installation

The source package is very simple to install. There is an INSTALL document in the package that gives good directions. You can compile and play the game right in the same directory, or you can install it to a directory of your choice, like /usr/games.

The only stumbling point I ran into was I didn’t have sound support at first. I installed libsdl-mixer1.2-dev and re-compiled and all was well.

Getting Started

Welcome to Freeciv!

There are a few gameplay modes: basic single-player, scenario, and networked multi-player. Once you kick off the single player game, you can also take a look at some of the options to tweak the game as you like:

A look at some options

Some of the options are self-evident, but some are not clear – I assume they are documented somewhere, but I couldn’t find in-game help for what they meant. There is also some strange white background to labels here and in game. The most important ones – number and skill of computer opponents – are right up front, so it’s easy to jump in.

Interface

If you have any familiarity with Civilization-type games, the interface will probably make a lot of sense right from the start. Basically, you click to select a unit and then give it an order or move it somewhere. You can right-click to move around the map. Moving units is a bit tedious because you either have to “drag” the path, or select the unit, press “g”, and then click on where you want to go. When moving a lot of units, the mouse+keyboard combination can be a bit tedious.

There are a lot of items: units, city upgrades, wonders, and technologies to research. There is good in-game help covering each one, although many are pretty obvious – at least the rough concept of what they do. One nice thing you can do is set a technology as a “goal” to research, and the game will handle researching the required dependencies.

Tech tree

Overall, the interface is perfectly suitable, but a little rough and spartan. You don’t give things like hover-over tool tips or a lot of integration with the online help. These things that aren’t really necessary, but are nice – especially when learning the game.

Gameplay

Freeciv has excellent gameplay. The computer on the easiest setting is still fun for a first timer, and the moves are very quick. There are two ways to win: destroy all your opponents or send a rocket into space. There is a bit of diplomacy, but I didn’t get much out of it – I couldn’t get much good negotiating done and some of the deals I would have had to made to get the computer to accept were ludicrous.

There is a rough mix of land- and sea- based combat. This was one area where I found myself scratching my head against the computer. It seemed like the computer knew which of my cities didn’t have a defender and would pop up and take over the city. I’m not sure if I could see the same thing or if this was just my imagination, but eventually I was too paranoid to have a city without at least one defender.  The larger issue is that it is hard to blockade or defend coastal regions. I lost a lot of workers/engineers on the coast to the computer popping up.

That being said I stayed up way too late playing Freeciv – it’s an immersive game and I sure was getting mad at those darned Venezuelans!

Summary

Freeciv is easy to install, quick to get started, and has deep gameplay. As I played the game, I was having fun and seeing where strategy could start be developed. I don’t usually play a rush-style game, so I like to really build up my civilizations – there’s enough going on that things stayed fairly interesting even in the endgame (which is where a lot of these sort of games really drag).

Freeciv endgame

If empire-building is your thing, why not give Freeciv a shot?

Nuovo aggiornamento per FreeCiv che giunge alla release 2.1.7. Noto gioco di strategia incentrato sulla civilizzazione (Licenza: GPL OS: Intrepid Ibex 32/64bits, Formato: Deb).

Fonte/Download: GetDeb

7-Zip- Updating from 4.61 Beta to 4.62 Final

Changelog available upon install (history.txt)

Download from http://www.7-zip.org/

Filezilla Client- Updating from 3.1.5.1 to 3.1.6 Final
Changelog: On website

Download from http://www.filezilla-project.org/

Freeciv- Updating from 2.1.7 to 2.1.8

Changelog: On website

Download from http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Java- Updating from 6 Update 10 to 6 Update 11

Release Notes: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u11.html

Download from http://www.java.com

Songbird- Updating from 1.0.0RC3 to 1.0.0 final

Release Notes: On website

Download from http://www.getsongbird.com/

If you know of any other updates during this week, please leave a comment with the versions and website. I will review them, and post them up.

У меня есть блог на котором я пишу о Linux  играх.

Об игре The Battle for Wesnoth
Об игре Warzone2100
Об игре Lincity
Об игре TileRacer
Об игре Freedroidrpg

Об игре Freeciv

Об игре AssaultCube
Об игре Alien Arena 2008
Об игре Teeworlds
Об игре Nexuiz
Об игре Astromenace
Об игре Cube 2: Sauerbraten

Описание игр пишу сам. а не просто линки с переводом описани.

Baseado no sucesso Civilization II, o FreeCiv é um jogo que vai agradar a todos, pois além de ser muito bom é grátis. O game é bastante semelhante ao original, possui a mesma jogabilidade e comandos.

Para quem não conhece, o jogo é bem trabalhoso, são muitas coisas para fazer, contudo é muito envolvente. No início basta escolher uma das treze civilizações existentes e também o número de civilizações (de uma a seis) que existirão no seu mundo. Então você cria a sua primeira cidade e começa a produzir guerreiros (para proteção e conquista de novas civilizações), colonos (para fundar novas cidades, construir estradas, áreas irrigadas e minas), deve construir melhorias para a cidade e até tentar erguer uma das sete maravilhas do mundo antes das outras civilizações.

Com o FreeCiv, dá até para aprender a pensar duas vezes antes de xingar alguns governantes do mundo real, afinal não é nada fácil administrar uma cidade. Você se verá louco nesse game, pois além de guerra, é possível fazer tratados de aliança e cooperação com outros povos, navegar e descobrir novos territórios, estudar e fazer novas descobertas, que vão desde a escrita até a engenharia aero espacial, tudo respeitando sua respectiva época. Todos os avanços descobertos permitem que você construa coisas novas para suas cidades e tropas. O jogo é realmente muito interessante, cheio de surpresas.

Download: FreeCiv

Well this is pretty much what I do for school, take a game, trim it down, put it on a USB drive, and play it there. Today, we were discussing about games to play tomorrow, and we decided on Freeciv, because someone wanted to play Civilization, but I didn’t wanna bother finding it. So here it is, it pretty much just installs it to the computer and automatically runs it when it’s finished. This was made with the computers at my school in thought because every time they are turned off, they restart to a certain state.

Changes from original:

• Packed in WinRAR

• UPX compressed

• Removed some documents

Click here for download link!

Disclaimer: Because some files are removed, it might not work as well as it should. Please report if it crashes and how. To learn how to play Freeciv, visit Freeciv.org, as it is there game, not mine.

People, people.

You don’t run freeciv with the command “freeciv”. You run it with “civclient”. It’s all so clear now.

I’m gonna be the Greeks.

Edit: I mean the Turks.

My XO arrived at my old address way back on the 17th–I had my landlord ship it out to my current address and I finally got it out of the box today.

After a month and a half of working myself up for it, I’m a little disappointed, though not surprised, at how small the keyboard is. The individual keys are smalled than a fingerprint each; about a third of an inch across. I’m learning that the trick is to only type with three fingers on each hand. It gets faster the more you do it. Already I’m starting to type differently on my big laptop.

So far I’ve installed opera, freeciv (use the command ’su yum install freeciv’), and flash. Opera chokes a bit on youtube–the video stutters; the sound is clear–but it’s still head and shoulders above Browse, which would be beautifully bare-bones except that its lack of functionality is equaled by a lack of speed. Get Opera. Remember: it’s su, not sudo.

Now I just need to figure out where freeciv installed and I’ll be happy for the rest of the night.