Exilian
Game Design and Project Resources: The Workshops Quarter => Computer Game Development - The Indie Alley => Topic started by: Lizard on January 31, 2016, 11:34:01 AM
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Hi guys,
For those of you hoping I'm PITCHING an open-source strategy game, I'm sorry - that's not what I'm doing. I'm trying to build an AI that could effectively play strategy games, using various techniques I've picked up over my degree and more (can you tell I've been inspired by AlphaGo? Because I have).
If anyone knows of a simple, open-source strategy game, could they point me to it? It'd probably need to have...
- A (comparatively) small set of actions
- Be focused around interaction with other players
- Be open-source, with free access to the source code
I looked into 0AD, but for one that is a behemoth of a program with far too much going on for what I need to do (which is, essentially, a proof of concept at the moment) - and, for the start of the games at least, is focused on city-building and defensive, rather than player-interaction and offensive.
So I'm maybe looking for something like Starcraft/Command and Conquer? But, y'know, with source code I can legally access.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_with_available_source_code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_with_available_source_code)
Warlords Battlecry III is the only one from that list I've played. It's clunky and looks frankly amateur compared with the first iteration. Good luck :)
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Freeciv is open source I think and really pretty simple?
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I did not know there was a list of such games. Perhaps I should learn to Google in the future :P
I'll check out FreeCiv too :)
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hehe it's no trouble, there is a list somewhere for almost anything :P