Open Source X-Com Apocalypse !!!

[michal]

Who's the best x-com project finder?

https://github.com/hallor/ufo

I don't know how advanced it is, but looks like it's quite active It's on github for one month and already have bunch of commits.

Isn't it great year for x-com fans?

[kkmic]

* Checks the calendar - nope, it's not April 1st

* Scratches head

* Clicks on the link with care

[SupSuper]

Wow, you're like a GoogleBot but for X-Com projects.

[AlienRape]

Isn't it great year for x-com fans?

Shhhh!!! You'll jinx it!

[SupSuper]

For those curious I got it running (after a whole bunch of fixing mystery dependencies and weird includes ), it's still very early, just showing a scrollable glitchy cityspace with some random UFOs shooting around, though I might've just set it up wrong. Here's hoping it gets somewhere though.

[michal]

Cool It's a nice start There are two programmers already, maybe more will join and project will develop faster.

[kkmic]

Cool It's a nice start There are two programmers already, maybe more will join and project will develop faster.

Let's hope so.

Looks like the cityscape has some transparency issues, but that's an easy fix compared to the rest

[Sethis]

Hi there!

I see you've found our project. Most of the code is scrapped together as a proof of concept, so don't expect anything spectacular anywhere in the near future.
Development is currently focused on architecture design, there are still some copyright issues that have to be resolved, coding style to be agreed upon etc.
Transparency issues are the least of our concerns, as almost entire code (except for .pck importer and some of the latest commits) will be rewritten.

Our goal is to make full remake of original game, that would work both on Windows and Linux systems. Original files will be required to run it, though.

Cheers.

[michal]

Our goal is to make full remake of original game, that would work both on Windows and Linux systems. Original files will be required to run it, though.

So, basically like openxcom Good luck with your project And don't loose faith - openxcom also started from basic stuff, but look how far it's gone now

[hsbckb]

From my viewpoint, X-Com Apocalypse is not a completed game ready for sale.

Good luck for this project!

[michal]

Sethis, what's your policy towards new programmers? Are you looking for help? I can't offer my help with programming, but maybe other guys here can

[Sethis]

Currently we don't need any programming help, as both me and Hallor agree that as long as there is no solid code foundation present, we would need skilled game developers with experience in both engine and game development, and even then it would be very hard to propagate tasks throughout group of people living in different time zones, which would disable instant communication.  As a project progresses and most of the low-level code is ready, we'll most definitely need help of XCom community to carry on with code, gameplay balancing and testing. We will let you know when that time comes

[kkmic]

That's great!

Looks like you two make a solid team. Good luck with the project.

Looking forward for screenshots and video clips from the project

[michal]

I'm looking at github everyday and i'm happy to see steady commit rate

[kkmic]

I'm looking at github everyday and i'm happy to see steady commit rate

+1