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Do you want to colaborate in an historical digital game?

by paulasimoes Jul 23, 2009 Uncategorized

0 A.D. is a free, cross-platform, under-development, 3D, historically-based, real-time strategy game that was born in the winter of 2001/2002.

Wildfire Games, the team behind the game, is switching 0 A. D. from a closed development process to open source, making the code available as GPL and the art content available as CC-BY-SA .

This way, other people can contribute to the project:

We’re releasing this as a work-in-progress, pre-alpha project, aimed at developers who might be interested in this kind of thing, in the hope of sharing resources with a community that would otherwise be excluded from our development process.

The team has several departments, including an History Department since the game will be strongly guided by history.

Erik Johansson, a.k.a. feneur, producer and project leader 0 A.D., told EuroMACHS, via email, that

Generally we don’t have much need in the History area at the moment as the design for the game is finalized since several years and it will not be until we start developing the campaigns/scenarios for the game that we might need historians to be involved with the game itself.

For now,

the history department mostly writes history articles for the website and checks out specific things if we find something in the design we might need more info on.

Nevertheless, if you want to contribute with texts you can always post an application thread to the forum, with an example text of your writing. Later on when the team starts to create scenarios/campaigns, you can help too, “as they will need to be as historically accurate as possible”.

If you are a programmer and want to join the developers team you can start to read the Getting Started Guide.

Read the announcement and reasons of moving from a closed development process to open source.

Some background of the project.