Being a giant, beloved video game site has its downsides. For example, Joystiq sometimes neglect to give independent developers their coverage love (or loverage, if you will) as they get caught up in AAA, AAAA or the rare quintuple-A titles. To remedy that, they're giving indies the chance to create their own loverage and sell you, the fans, on their studios and products. This week they talk with Aviv Sharon of Wolfire about the studio's 0 A.D., an indie project nine years in the making.
Modder ‘The_Undying_Nephalim’ has released the first demo for his Zelda mod for the free open-source game, 0 A.D. This demo features two playable factions (The Kingdom of Hyrule and the Gerudo), four Heroes for each of the two factions, each with their own unique Units, Techs, and Abilities, and three Skirmish and Multiplayer Maps.
The game is already freely available for download, the development stage is Alpha.
Wildfire Games has launched a crowdfunding campaign via IndieGoGo, with the aim of raising $40,000 as the first target. If successful, the funds from this campaign will go toward paying team members to work on the game full-time (40+ hours per week)! This is a “flexible” fundraiser, meaning they get the money no matter if the campaign meets its goals or not. For fans, that means more features and better performance.
The game will be always free and open-source. Available for Windows, OS X and Linux.
YES!
Wait...so is this pretty much open source Age 1 ?
Same era, civs and such but with updated improvements to gameplay and graphics ?
I miss Ensemble
Ensemble devs split, but most ended up at Robot Entertainment. They mostly do small games at the moment. Well mostly because of budget I believe, but they could grow and become something great in the future.
