What does HackerNews think of openage?

Free (as in freedom) open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine :rocket:

Language: Python

#22 in C++

#23 in C++

#6 in Game engine

#87 in Linux

#6 in OpenGL

#124 in Python

#5 in Qt

0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years | May 2023

The openage is as well a fantastic project https://github.com/SFTtech/openage

Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? | Mar 2020

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Have you heard of OpenAge? Its an open source thing with a similar aim

https://github.com/SFTtech/openage

Age of Empires Definitive Edition's pathing and movement | Mar 2018

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> Put your vector fields in textures at map design time and be done with it.

I think you're forgetting there is no map design time in Age of Empires since the maps are RNG. Also, walls, structures, and destroyed forests are critical to gameplay, so it has to be an extremely dynamic process.

There are obviously ways to improve the pathfinding, https://github.com/SFTtech/openage has many plans, but your dismissals are starting from wrong assumptions.

Warzone 2100: A Free and Open Source Real-Time Strategy Game | Jan 2017

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Yeah, i love 0 A.D., but i don't consider it a "rewrite". There are at least two ongoing attepts to create open source AoE:

- https://github.com/angered-ghandi/OpenAOE (AoE I)

- https://github.com/SFTtech/openage (AoE II)

HN posts about openage:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10830652

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8511084 (with some links to other interesting games in the comments)