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The Battle for Wesnoth

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The Battle for Wesnoth (or just Wesnoth) is a strategy video game. It is designed by David White and the first released was made in June 2003. The game is available under the GPL license. The 1.14.5 version is the last release and was made the 18 September 2018.

Development

The game is programmed in C++. It is cross-platform and runs on AmigaOS 4, BeOS, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, MorphOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, RISC OS, iOS, Solaris and Android.

The project has a very big community and counts many contributors too.[1] Some developers are well-known authors of other free and open-source projects. For example, there are Eric S. Raymond[2] or Rusty Russell.[3][4]

The game is translated in more than 50 languages. In 10 of them, the game is very well translated (These languages have more than 95% of messages translated[5]).

The Battle For Wesnoth Media

  • Graphic of a Sylph in Wesnoth'.

  • Campaign progression in Wesnoth includes cutscenes such as this, where the story is explained.

  • The Battle for Wesnoth's map editor

  • This animated sprite of an attacking fencer unit portrays the general style of Wesnoth sprites.

References

  1. ↑ Credits of the game
  2. ↑ Developer entry for Eric S. Raymond Archived 2010-03-12 at the Wayback Machine on gna.org
  3. ↑ Developer entry for Rusty Russell Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine on gna.org
  4. ↑ Video of a talk by Rusty Russell at Australian Linux conference linux.conf.au 2007 Archived 2009-03-26 at the Wayback Machine about his work on Wesnoth, from here [1]
  5. ↑ Wesnoth translation stats

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