[Savannah-register-public] [task #4996] Submission of Liquid War 6

[Christian Mauduit]

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                 Summary: Submission of Liquid War 6
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: ufoot
            Submitted on: mar 29.11.2005 à 23:32
         Should Start On: mar 29.11.2005 à 00:00
   Should be Finished on: ven 09.12.2005 à 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
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Full Name:
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  Liquid War 6

System Group Name:
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  liquidwar6

Type:
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  Official GNU software

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  Liquid War 6 is a complete rewrite of Liquid War 5, which is a unique
multiplayer wargame. Its rules are truely original and have been invented by
Thomas Colcombet. You control an army of liquid and have to try and eat your
opponents. A single player mode is available, but the game is definitely
designed to be multiplayer, and has network support.

It has been ranked "most original Linux Game" (
http://happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=549 ) by the Linux Game Tome
in 2002. It and has also been nominated in the games category at the
internationnal free software contest "Les trophées du libre" (
http://www.tropheesdulibre.org/ ) in 2003.

While Liquid War 5 has been stable for years and is still used, it shows its
age, and a complete rewrite makes sense, since the technological context has
completely changed since 1998. Liquid War 6 will rely on SDL/OpenGL (
http://www.libsdl.org/opengl/index.php ) and Guile (
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ ) when Liquid War 5 is plain C code using
2D graphics provided by Allegro ( http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/ ).

Project is under heavy developpement but snapshots, news, roadmap are
available on: http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/liquidwar6 , the latest tarball
being: http://www.ufoot.org/archive/liquidwar6-20051128.tar.gz


Other Software Required:
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  SDL: http://www.libsdl.org/
OpenGL: http://www.opengl.org/ (implemented by http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ and
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ , but any OpenGL implementation should
work)
libpng: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
zlib: http://www.zlib.net/
SDL_image: http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/
SDL_ttf: http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/
Guile: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
Expat: http://www.libexpat.org/


Other Comments:
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  Note that the only common point with Liquid War 5 is that it's about the
same gameplay, and the author is the same, but for the rest (project
management, source code...) everything is different, so it makes sense to
create a separate package I think.

Another good reason is that I made efforts (using Guile is part of this) to
respect the GNU standards as best as I could. Typically LW6 massively uses
autotools, gettext, will have proper texinfo docs, and so on. Be GNU-friendly
is one of the goals of Liquid War 6. Therefore it might IMHO be a good
candidate for the GNU project, whereas Liquid War 5 wasn't.








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