For those who’s hate to play warcraft III game using wine or other emulators on your linux desktop, but you couldn’t find other games similar to warcraft III that could run natively on linux, you should try Glest!!
Although I’m a cyber cafe owner but I am not a games freak, but Glest had caught my eyes 3 years ago, when I started osscc.org. Glest is a good 3D real time strategy game, the game is still under good development progress. You can play Glest on LAN or single player also. Although Glest is not as advance as Warcraft III, but I really enjoy playing it some time, even those kids when we did an exhibition last year gave us a positive feedback when they play Glest on our diskless linux gaming system using DRBL.
Installation
Installing Glest on Ubuntu Linux is far too easy, open your terminal and type the following command:
# sudo apt-get install glest
Glest is a free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions:Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield.
Glest is not just a game, but also an engine to make strategy games, based on XML and a set of tools. A few mods already exist.
Mega Glest
Their other project called MegaGlest seems doesn’t has so many progress since they registered the project at SourceForge.net on Jan 22 2010, and is described by the project team as follows :
“Currently there is no active development of the real time strategy game glest. This project aims to improve the game and its content. It already has a lot more content than the original game and contains bugfixes and improvements.”
And the stable release of MegaGlest is version 3.3.3 and can be downloaded from here : http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5283.0
Glest Development Team
Glest is made by a bunch of friends, most of them from Spain. If you wish to contact them, please send an e-mail or post on their board.
Martiño Figueroa. Glest game, engine and tools coder.
MS in Computer Science by the University of Coruña (Spain). e-mail.
José González. Sound and Music.
Glest music composer and sound designer. Web.
Tucho Fernández. 2D and 3D Artist Design.
Modeling, texturing, and animation of the 3D models of units, buildings and more. 3D & 2D online portfolio | ArtByTucho Blog.
José Zanni. 2D Artist and Web design.
Design of the logo, and 2D components of the game. Design and implementation of the website. Web & graphic design | Ungoliante Blog.
Matze Braun. Linux port.
He ported Glest to SDL and OpenAL which enabled it to work under Linux and other operative systems.
You can visit their site to find out more about this game:
Glest Official Website : http://www.glest.org/
Glest Blog : http://glestblog.blogspot.com/
Glest Forum : http://glest.org/glest_board/
Hi, for megaglest, there has actually been many updates…latest version is 3.3.5 beta 9 http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5380.0 (in this case, betas are more stable, mainly for multiplayer though)
Also, if you haven’t tried it yet, try GAE (Glest Advanced Engine) Adds some features, some cool ones…
http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5315.0
Thanks.
@ultifd: thanks alots dude for your kind information, we will looks for it since we are quite interest in promoting Glest for our cyber cafe customers, and thanks again..