![]() TuxHistoryReal Time Strategy Game to learn History |
Free software is an essential piece in the education for the world. TuxHistory aims to cover a major lack. Free Software doesn't have a history learning game! The idea is to make a strategy game that uses the real-time strategy mode like Age of Empire (all in 2d) but should be focused on an economic, cultural, military and science development of the different civilizations. BackgroundEducational games in the free software world are vital. In many places, proprietary software isn't accessible for the significant part of the population. The high cost of the software is a problem, and free software must be an alternative in this area. As far as I know, there is no history game alternative in the Free Software world. This is an issue that we need to solve. The game
Developmentseveral limitations. It is not release ready, but developers are invited to At the moment, TuxHistory has basic functionalities and can be played with several limitations. It is not ready for release, but developers are invited to compile and try out our software. So, what can TuxHistory do at this stage of development?
The (still huge) TODO list
Get ready to code and contribute.First, you will need all tools installed in your system. This can be done with:sudo apt-get build-dep tuxmath sudo apt-get install libt4k-common0-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libmxml-dev \ liblua5.1-0-dev git clone https://github.com/pywirrarika/tuxhistory.git cd tuxhistory autoreconf --install ./configure make sudo make install tuxhistory Contact![]() If you want to contribute to this project, I encourage you to send me (Manuel Mager) a email to pywirrarika [-at-] gmail dot com. All files are GPL 3v+, so this game is free software. Finally, as you can see in the Git repo, this game was inactive for the last seven years. Some friends and I started an educational project in Mexico, and as TuxHistory fitted in our idea, I decided to restart hacking on it. If you want to know more about this, please visit PAREWI's Page . We refurbish old computers, we install Free Educational Software, and then we bring those to poor indigenous communities in Mexico. |
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