Worldforge

[Pat Wendorf]

Anders Petersson wrote:
> 
> Have you all checked out Worldforge? (www.worldforge.org)
> They seem pretty related to our task, since according to their site:
> "WorldForge's ultimate aim is to produce a general framework for creation
> of Genre-independent RPG and RTS games."

Sounds interesting, I hope they are doing it as an opensource, free
client product.

> They have been going for soon a year, and their size and dedication is
> impressive, even if the site has little news from the last month or so. As
> it seems, AKOS covers parts of their effort, but I suspect AKOS is more
> flexible in what it does. OTOH, AKOS is nothing (yet, at least). They have
> some sort of simple demo finished (haven't looked at it).

Download it and try it out, it might help us with our own project.

> Noted from their site:
> "Many of us have tried developing this concept on our own, several had even
> worked on similar projects with commercial intentions. We realized the task
> was more than we could do alone, or even with a small group. But this
> project has a sufficient size and diversity of talent to do it."

Ok I guess that implies that they are free, very cool then.
 
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