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"Because Empires Should Be Free"

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What is Free Empires?

Free Empires is a free software (GPL 3) historical real time strategy game based on Ensembles Studios and Microsoft's: Age of Empires (AoE) and Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (AoK). The project aims towards GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems compatibility. We are currently working on the engine and the design for the first in our proposed series: Chiefs and Warriors which takes place in Paleolithic Europe focusing on the Neanderthal people. This project is a Piga Software project and it is the organization that develops and provides support for the Free Empires project.

The engine being developed behind Free Empires is called Gambas Genie.

To join the Free Empires development team or to just discuss it (as well as other Piga Software projects) go to http://piga.7.forumer.com/.

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FREE EMPIRES SOURCE CODE RELEASES

Free Empires: Chiefs and Warriors for GNU/Linux,*BSD, Solaris and other Unix-like systems.

Bluecurve Download IconSource Release 1.0: CLICK HERE!
Released June 21, 2007. Tested on Fedora "Core" 4-7-onward, and Ubuntu 7.04. Under the GPL 2.

Bluecurve Download IconSource Release 2.0: CLICK HERE!
Released November 9, 2007. Tested on Fedora 7 onward. Under the GPL 3.

Bluecurve Download IconLamp Refugee Engine Technical Demo, Source Release 1.0: CLICK HERE!
Released October 26, 2009. Tested on Fedora 8. Under the GPL 3.

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Development Shots

Here are some screenshots of Free Empires: Chiefs and Warriors during different stages of development, including random engine experimentation.
The screenshots are pictures of GNU General Public License software and thus are under the same license.
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Artwork Gallery

Hint: Place your cursor over an image and it will tell you what it is. All of the sites graphics are under the GFDL.

House Town Centre Market
Male Villager Villager Chief Archer Preist Scout Tradesman Spearman Slinger
Villager Icon Female Villager Icon House Icon Town Centre Icon Market Icon
Food Button Wood Button Stone Button Stop Button Unselect Button
Age I Button Age II Button Age III Button Age IV Button
Bear Gazelle
Bear Icon Gazzele Icon

Do you have some graphics that you think might help us? Well present them on our forum (see links).

External Links

  1. Piga Software: Free Empire's mother organization.
  2. FreeCiv: like Free Empires but for Civilization.
  3. FreeCol: like Free Empires but for Colonization.
  4. AoE Clone: a SourceForge.net page proposing to create a Java AoE-like game project.
  5. 0 A.D.: a free software AoE-like RTS game project for GNU/Linux and other platforms.
  6. The Dawn of Man: a large scale fan made expansion pack project for AoE.
  7. Extreme Tux Racer: our partner project.
  8. Free Empires and Piga Software's Forum.
  9. Free Empires and Piga Software's Wiki.

Website Last Updated: 11/14/2009

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