Posts Tagged ‘freeorion’

Interview with FreeOrion’s Programming Lead: Zach Laine

Monday, August 17th, 2009

A couple weeks ago I wrote an article about freeorion where I presented the project’s current status, my first impressions and some screenshots. The game is still in alpha stage (version 0.3 on a roadmap to 1.0) with many of its features still in development, so in order to have some more information I contacted freeorion and arranged for an interview with freeorion’s Programming Lead: Zach Lain, which kindly promptly agreed to share with us some of his thoughts for the game.

FreeOrion: A Free Open Source 4x Space Strategy Game

Friday, July 31st, 2009

While doing some research on the latest news about space strategy games under development I came across with the FreeOrion project.

FreeOrion is an open-source project which goal is to build a turn based 4x space strategy game. The entire project is community-centered were people that share the common motivation are invited to contribute to build the game in many ways, some as programmers, others as conceptual designers, others as opinion makers.

As stated in the project vision the game is inspired in the Master of Orion series and it will be a turn-based strategy game built in the classic 4x model style.