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What is Planet Darkside?
Planet Darkside is an open source, free online, turn-based strategy game. Although it includes graphics and aesthetically pleasing design, it is a text-based game. In games such as Starcraft and Warcraft, the action is real time; you build up your forces and defeat everyone else in 30 minutes. In games like Planet Darkside, especially those with around 10,000 players, the strategy is much more long term and exciting. This is an open source project under the GPL. It is also free to play. This project has been started only a few months ago, and so it right now is in the very beginning stages of development. We hope to have a production quality product by the end of this year.
What Makes This Game Special?
First, the game is open-source under GNU GPL. What this means is that not only can you take a look at the code of the game, but that you can actually modify it for your own purposes. Wait, for those of you who just want a good game to play: This game is designed to be a really good text-based browser-based game. That means we have stunning graphics along with the text, well tested gameplay, and a team of developers dedicated to making Planet Darkside the best. This game is free. And if you want something included in the game? You can talk to the developers, and we may include it for free! We develop it, help the players, and host the game for free. |
Planet Darkside was started as an alternative to all those pay to play online games. We feel that we can make a game as good as costly online turn-based strategy games, but still keep it free. All of us are developers working on the game in our spare time. Don't leave just yet! We may not have a game for you to play just yet, but that's because we make sure that we release only a good game. We develop it properly, test it, and then put it out online. Check this site every month or give us your e-mail (look at the right side of the page), so we can tell you when the game is ready for you to play. If you want to join us in the development of the game, as a graphics artist, as a programmer, or as something else entirely, feel free to contact us. We could always use more people. Development Stepped Up Yes, we have officially stepped up development. We hope to be in closed beta in a few months, and have v1.0, our quality release, out by the end of this year. Starting out with 6 people, only time will tell what happens. Stay tuned! First File Release We have made our first file release, for developers. |
When can we play this game?
We won't have anything really good until the end of this year. You may want to know when v 1.0 of the game is coming out. v1.0 of Planet Darkside will be our first full quality release. You could submit your name to our mailing lists. We will then let you know what is happening.
What Are We Doing Now?
1) Setting up the core files. These files handle many of the basic functions like displaying pages and handling any script errors. 2) Cleaning up the site. If you saw our site before, it looked terrible, and if you saw it when we just started, it was atrocious. Hopefully, the site is now viewable. 3) Adding some extra things like a wiki. Want to help out? If you have any advice, feel free to contact us.
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