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« on: September 06, 2006, 05:09:32 am »
Open-Source-Game PlaneShift

For all Linux loving people. who will enjoy some time with a Game, here's a Tip:
The Open-Source-MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) PlaneShift is a "Roleplaying Game", where the different characters are moving through a medivial fantasy world, which is called Yliakum. This world is well designed and huge enough for exploring a while.

The main goal of the current development ist the implemantation of a well working crafting system. This makes you able to produce goods for selling and exchanging. Magic and Combat are allready working in a very nice manner.
The game is based on the Open-Source 3D-framework CrystalSpace. Although PlaneShift is currently in an official pre-release it's possible to play it nearly as a bought game.
As requirements for playing: 1GHz CPU, 512MB RAM and a typical grafics-card is the minimum.

PlaneShift may be run with Linux, MacOS X and Windows. Interesting is PlaneShift in 3 typical ways:
- Just for enjoying, especially for geeks
- For C-Programmers for exploring the Code
- As an active Programmer to join the development

PlaneShift is free to play and to use.

Free translated from:
http://www.linux-community.de/Neues/story?storyid=20724