Stratagus was a free cross-platform real time strategy game engine used to build other games that is written in C. Lua is used as the configuration language. SDL, gzip and bzip2 are among the external libraries used.
In June 15, 1998 Lutz Sammer released the first public version of a free Warcraft II clone for Linux he had written, named ALE Clone. In 1999 it was renamed to Freecraft.
Because of its history, all Stratagus games currently inherit ...
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Stratagus was a free cross-platform real time strategy game engine used to build other games that is written in C. Lua is used as the configuration language. SDL, gzip and bzip2 are among the external libraries used.
In June 15, 1998 Lutz Sammer released the first public version of a free Warcraft II clone for Linux he had written, named ALE Clone. In 1999 it was renamed to Freecraft.
Because of its history, all Stratagus games currently inherit the Warcraft II style gameplay. In June 2003, a cease and desist letter was received from Blizzard Entertainment, who thought the name Freecraft could cause confusion with the names StarCraft and Warcraft, and that some of the ideas within the engine were too similar to Warcraft II. The project halted on June 20, 2003.
Soon the developers regrouped to continue the work by the name of Stratagus, with a change in the aim: former interest in using the data-files from StarCraft had diminished; the project using the data-files from Warcraft II was...
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