Bos Wars
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| Genre | Real-time strategy |
| Latest release | 2.8 (Announcement) |
| Release date | June 26th, 2023[1] |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux, Haiku |
| Developer | Bos Wars team |
| Code license | GPL |
| Media license | GPL |
| Engine | Stratagus |
| P. language | Lua, C++ |
| Library | SDL |
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| Bos Wars is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. | |
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Bos Wars (formerly known as Battle of Survival) is a futuristic real-time strategy game. The player has to develop a war economy in order to combat his enemies. To be successful, the economic needs need to be balanced against building an army. Controlling strategic passages plays an important role.
It used the SDL library. This game does not require 3D hardware acceleration.
History[edit]
Bos Wars was originally known as Invasion - Battle of Survival. In June 2007, the Stratagus game engine was merged with BOS and the game became known as Bos Wars.
It was started by Tina Petersen, and is now lead by François Beerten. The game uses the Stratagus game engine and is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.[2]
Release history[edit]
The following is a list of releases through out Bos Wars' development history:
| Version | Date |
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| 2.5 | 2008-03-01[3] |
Maps[edit]
Additional maps can be found at:
In Debian the files have to be extracted to /usr/share/games/boswars/maps.
Developers[edit]
- François Beerten, project leader[4]
- Frank Loeffler, scripter and modeler
- Jimmy Salmon, programmer
- Loïs Taulelle, map and campaigns creator
- Nehal Mistry, programmer
- Tejay Penfold, modeler
- Tina Petersen, project founder
Reception[edit]
It was reviewed as an entertaining game that takes time and effort to learn.[5] The game runs on low-spec computers and can be quite fast-paced. It can also be enjoyed playing in a tower-defense/tower rush style.[6] It heavily resembled Warcraft II, but aims to create a completely original game.[7]
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References[edit]
- ↑ Bos Wars Downloads
- ↑ Bos Wars' readme file in its cvs repository
- ↑ Bos War's download page
- ↑ The Bos Wars Team
- ↑ Mike Williams: Build a mighty army to defeat all your enemies with this engrossing RTS game, 16 Nov 10
- ↑ All Maps of Bos Wars 2.6.1+ (svn r10193), December 03, 2012
- ↑ Bos Wars, LinuxLinks.com