An open source engine clone of Age of Empires II

<a href="http://play0ad.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;play0ad.com</a>, 0 A.D, a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy game. GPL 2+ license for the game engine and the CC-BY-SA for the game art.

<p><pre><code> Waaaaaah! It * segfaults * prints error messages I don&#x27;t want to read * ate my dog All of those are features, not bugs. To turn them off, use .&#x2F;openage --dont-segfault --no-errors --dont-eat-dog. </code></pre> I chuckled when I read that. If that were so easy...

You should post this on aoczone[0] - probably the largest aoe2 enthusiast forum. Voobly[1] is the primary aoc client at the moment with fan made compatibility patches, such as userpatch[2]. They are also hosting a $120,000 tournament in a weeks time with some of the strongest teams around. I&#x27;m sure some of the developers from voobly&#x2F;userpatch could have a look at it. As someone mentioned 0ad[3] is an aoe2 inspired game, unfortunately I think their kickstarter failed but they did add multiplayer support which looks promising.<p>[0] <a href="http://aoczone.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aoczone.net</a><p>[1] <a href="http://voobly.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;voobly.com</a><p>[2] <a href="http://userpatch.aiscripters.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;userpatch.aiscripters.net</a><p>[3] <a href="http://play0ad.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;play0ad.com</a><p>edit: I jumped the gun before RTFM, sorry about that, might want to check out <a href="http://aoccs.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aoccs.net</a> too for aoehd.

I wish someone would clone Cossacks.<p>I&#x27;ve been playing it since 2002 and keep an XP box specifically to play it on. After all these years I still haven&#x27;t gotten bored of the game and probably play it 2-3 hours a week or more on average.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this means it&#x27;s a really good game or I&#x27;m just a boring person. But it beats AoE all over in my opinion. I&#x27;ve tried a lot of other games, played them for a bit and forgotten about them. But not Cossacks. I just wish they had kept the series going.

The internals of AoE II are quite interesting, especially when it comes to how the terrain is rendered. There is an epic thread here [1] where it&#x27;s discussed a bit and one of the original developers (Matt Prichard alias MattP) chimes in and talks a bit about AoE II&#x27;s development.<p>Trying to clone AoE II seems like a pretty cool and challenging project, and actually if I was going to write a game with 2D isometric graphics, I might steal some tricks from AoE.<p>[1] <a href="http://aok.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/aokcgi/display.cgi?action=ct&amp;f=3,40110,0,30" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aok.heavengames.com&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;aokcgi&#x2F;display.cgi?action...</a>

I&#x27;m going to out myself as oversensitive and lacking a sense of humor in many of your eyes (or so I imagine) but I can&#x27;t stand the kind of sarcastic humor in the contributing section.<p>Sarcasm is only funny to me when it&#x27;s not mean spirited.<p>The joke about segfaults: &quot;--dont-segfault --no-errors --dont-eat-dog.&quot; was quite funny, on the other hand. I&#x27;d like to see more playful expression in this way rather than playing with negativity; because even though it&#x27;s obviously a joke, there&#x27;s enough negativity in the world already that it doesn&#x27;t make me laugh thinking about it.<p>I imagine i&#x27;m in a tiny minority. :&#x2F;

Scripting AoEII maps with a decent scripting language has long been a dream of mine. Current trigger editor is &quot;hard to use and lacking&quot; to put it politely. Python support in the map editor would be amazing.

Has anyone else seen a big difference between the original AoE2 and the Steam re-release? I swear that the AI is barely aggressive anymore, even on the most difficult setting.

The engine looks solid, I loved AOE II growing up as a kid. also: I can&#x27;t tell if they&#x27;re joking when it comes to contributing...

Can someone explain to me how can software be &quot;free as in freedom&quot;?

I just want to sudo apt-get install it and play it.

how does this work with copyright &amp; trademarks &amp; stuff?

AOE II is one of my all time favorite game.