OpenRTS: A 3D Real-Time Strategy Game Engine

by pron • 11 years ago

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hellbanner5• 11 years ago

Very cool! My company is working on a tile-based board game engine. The thinking is that many tile-based games are so similar, all you should have to do is change the rules for piece-moving and you could start up a server for a new game.

https://github.com/QuantumProductions/tic-tac-toe

moron4hire3• 11 years ago

I wonder how many other companies had that same thought.

hellbanner5• 11 years ago

I haven't seen any good systems on Github. We're making a very modular framework -- eventually a Javascript client & server could share the same .JS file for game rules, just swap it out.

Most of the game engines I've seen either do too much or are too specialized.

methusalah9993• 11 years ago

OpenRTS team is currently working on a project using Entity System approach. This architecture will be certainly added to OpenRTS for much much much more extendability and flexibility.

So stay tuned :)

ketralnis• 11 years ago

Are there any released games written using it yet?

erlend_sh• 11 years ago

I don't believe there is. At this stage what the engine really needs is a couple 3D artists who can help churn out a few more CC-BY models so that they can put together a properly playable game demo.

methusalah9993• 11 years ago

No there isn't. The engine is born a year ago and we are still implementing the basis like networking and menus.

mumphster• 11 years ago

How does this compare to something like Spring (the RTS Engine) ?

https://springrts.com/

rmgraham• 11 years ago

At a very high level:

Spring is written in c++, scripted in Lua, and released under GPL2.

OpenRTS is jvm based and released under an MIT license.

methusalah9993• 11 years ago

Each open source project carry with it some model AAA game legacy. Starcraft 2 is for OpenRTS what Total Annihilation is for Spring, Age of Empire for 0ad, C&C for OpenRA.

For now, OpenRTS is specialized in micromanagement on cliffed/tiled terrains. All the game content is accessible from outside the code, using provided editors, XML and scripted langage. It is also Android (almost) ready. Those are the main differences with Spring.

Pxtl• 11 years ago

For another oss rts engine that already runs multiple online games, there's springrts. It was originally intended for Total Annihilation so it tends towards TA-ish play, but many developers take it in exciting directions with lua.

That said, spring grew very organically and it shows. A fresh start like this probably has a lot of advantages.

RobotCaleb• 11 years ago

People interested in this might also be interested in OpenRA. It currently supports C&C (Tiberian Dawn), C&C: Red Alert, and Dune 2000 and work is ongoing for Tiberian Sun.

http://www.openra.net/

thejj• 11 years ago

You might be interested in the free Age of Empires II engine then:

http://github.com/SFTtech/openage

OpenRTS: A 3D Real-Time Strategy Game Engine

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