0 A.D. on Linux (Gameplay) [No Commentary]
8About The Game
0 A.D. is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy game under development by Wildfire Games. It is a historical war and economy game focusing on the years between 500 B.C. and 1 B.C. for the first part, and a planned second part for the years 1 A.D. to 500 A.D. The game is cross-platform, playable on Windows, OS X, Linux, and OpenBSD. The game aims to be entirely free and open-source, using the GPLv2+ license for the game engine and CC BY-SA for the game art.
0 A.D. originally began as a comprehensive total conversion mod concept for Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings in June 2001. With limited design capabilities, the team soon turned to trying to create a full independent game based on their ideas. The game has been in development since 2000, with actual work starting in 2003.
In November 2008, the developers confirmed that they would soon be releasing the project as open-source. On 10 July 2009, Wildfire Games released source code for 0 A.D. under the GPL 2+, and made the art content available under the CC BY-SA.
There were about ten to fifteen people working on 0 A.D. around 23 March 2010, but since development started over 100 people have contributed.
On 5 September 2013, an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign was started with a US$160,000 goal. They raised a total of US$33,251 to be used to hire a programmer. The majority of the finances are managed by the Software in the Public Interest organisation.
0 A.D. was voted one of the Top 100 Best Upcoming Mods and Indies of 2008 by Mod DB. For 2009, it made it in the Top 100 Best Upcoming Mods and Indies again, as well as winning third place for Player's Choice Upcoming Indie Game of the Year. For 2010, 0 A.D. received an honorable mention for Player's Choice Upcoming Indie Game of the Year, and came second in that competition for 2012. 0 A.D. has been generally well received. It was voted by fans as the SourceForge project of the month for June 2012. It was voted as LinuxQuestions.org Open Source Game of the Year for 2013. Between 2010 and May 2017 the game was downloaded alone from Sourceforge.net over 1.3 million times.
There is no official release date set for the finished version.
System Requirements for SteamOS + Linux
Minimum:
Processor: 1 GHz Intel or x86 compatible
Memory: At least 512 MB
Graphics Card: Any supporting OpenGL 1.3 with 3D hardware accelerated drivers and at least 128 MB memory, e.g., Radeon 9000, GeForce 3, or similar
Screen resolution: 1024×768 or above
My Computer Setup:
SYS: Ubuntu 16.04 ,XFCE 4.12, 64 bit (No Dual-Boot)
CPU: Intel i7-6700K, 4x 4.00GHz, 8MB Cache
RAM: 16GB
GPU: Nvidia, GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, Palit Super Jetstream
GPU Driver: 375.66 Proprietary
Gamepad:
Steam Controller
Please note:
Occasional frame drops are due to the screen recording software. Runs smoothly otherwise!
You can download the game for free from here:
https://play0ad.com/download/