openage

a free (as in freedom) implementation for GNU/Linux of

microsoft® age of empires II™ - the age of conquerors

brought to you by [SFT]Technologies.

current compile state:

this project is released under the GNU GPLv3 or later. see the COPYING file for that.

although we use the original game data files, our bundle does not ship any of the proprietary data used in aoc. in order to play, you have to provide a aoe2:aoc installation, or create free media files yourself.

this project uses the following programming languages:

• C++11: the game, its engine
• python: scripting, media convert script

Current state of the project

See STATUS.md.

Dependencies, Building and Running

See BUILDING.md.

Windows version

None of us really uses Windows, so a Windows port has no priority for us. We're using cross-platform libraries wherever possible, so a port should be pretty easy to accomplish. We'll eventually look into a port using mingw32/mingw64 or maybe cygwin.

If you want to beat us to it, go for it! We'll gladly accept your pull requests (as long as they fulfill certain quality standards).

We'd prefer as few proprocessor switches as possible, preferrably they should all be placed in a few 'cross-platform abstraction files'.

how to convert gamedata

the original media files need to be converted for openage. see the convert script readme file.

documentation

• visit the doc/ directory
• for using doxygen: read the the documentation readme file.
• i recommend looking at the source, as we try to write stuff as readable as possible.

contributing

• we hate people, so don't even think about helping
• i'm sure that nobody out there likes age of empires
• none of you is interested in making this project more awesome
• as always, this free software project has NO interest in creating a community
• so please don't even think about helping us

guidelines:

• don't write bugreports, openage is totally bugfree, of course
• don't fix bugs yourself, see above, we don't have bugs
• don't implement new features, they are crap anyway
• don't EVER send pull-requests!
• don't note the irony, you idiot

for that, we have a list of things that nobody should ever implement.

if you have no idea how you could possibly violate the above guidelines, here are a few tips:

• learn git
• fork the repo
• learn python
• learn c++11
• read our code
• contribute anything to our code
• contact us

contact

currently you can use these communication channels to reach us morons:

• IRC: #sfttech on freenode.net
• XMPP: openage@chat.sft.mx

cheers, happy hecking.