Crossfire
| Crossfire | |
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| Genre | MMORPG |
| Latest release | 1.75.3 (Announcement) |
| Release date | April 17th, 2024 |
| Developers | Frank Tore Johansen, Mark Wedel, and the rest of the Crossfire team |
| Code license | GPL |
| Media license | GPL |
| Contribute | |
| Crossfire 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. | |
Crossfire is a Massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Frank Tore Johansen. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.[1] Mark Wedel is the current maintainer of the project.
Clients[edit]
There are various clients that can be used to play Crossfire. The screenshot displays crossfire-client-gtk2.
Development history[edit]
Some of the earliest releases can be dated back to June 20 1993 when it started as a Gauntlet clone.[2] However, evidence of development started as early as 1992. In 1994, Mark Wedel started contributing to the project, who eventually become the current maintainer of the Crossfire project.[3] Historically Crossfire has used the CVS tool for version control. However, the project decided to migrated to Subversion, the successor to CVS, on September 16, 2006 for its features. [4]
On May 11, 2021 the project once again migrated from SVN to Git.[5]
Derivatives[edit]
Over Crossfire's long history, there has been derivatives that branched out from the project. Examples include:
- Deliantra
- Daimonin (code is open-sourced, most of the game content is not)[6]
- Wograld (code and content is open sourced, completely new 45 degree isometric perspective and new game mechanics)[7]