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fanda
Space Krill
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Joined: Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:23 pm

Great game!

#1 Post by fanda »

The best game ever! Version 0.4.3-6281. Well balanced.
Everything is customizable, even random seed!
Texts in the Research view are interesting futurology and sci-fi read
and make me think. Designing ships is fun.

I guess Freeorion is mostly in C++ because of external libraries.
But it discourages some programmers including me
from joining the development team as C++ is hard to master.

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Dilvish
AI Lead and Programmer Emeritus
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Joined: Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:25 pm

Re: Great game!

#2 Post by Dilvish »

fanda wrote:I guess Freeorion is mostly in C++ because of external libraries.
But it discourages some programmers including me
from joining the development team as C++ is hard to master.
The content is mostly specified by a scripting language meant to be modifiable by non-programmers. The current AI code and some in-progress universe generation code is in Python. If that's more familiar to you I'm sure we could figure out some projects for you to start with. But even in those cases, it would be best to get a fair bit of familiarity with the game via playing before trying to tackle any coding for it.
If I provided any code, scripts or other content here, it's released under GPL 2.0 and CC-BY-SA 3.0

Hihoo
Space Kraken
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Joined: Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:50 am

Re: Great game!

#3 Post by Hihoo »

given python proficiency you could rewrite the entire AI of the game, giving you a vast programming playground using a rather stable game engine. This is the most adaptable game of comparable complexity I've ever seen

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