- Project Xenocide
Infobox_Software
name = Project Xenocide
developer = [http://docs.projectxenocide.com/index.php/General:Development_Team Development Team]
latest_preview_version = [http://www.projectxenocide.com/downloads.html Progress Release 0.4.0.1835]
latest_preview_date =April 4 ,2008
operating_system = Windows
genre = TacticalReal-time strategy
license = Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence
website = [http://www.projectxenocide.com/ www.projectxenocide.com/]"Project Xenocide" is an
open source game heavily inspired byX-COM , the classic game series fromMicroprose (now2K Games ).Gameplay
The style of Project Xenocide is planned to mimic the first two games in the X-Com series.
The player is in the place of the "Commander of Project Xenocide", a secret organization whose sole purpose is to protect the Earth from the Alien Invasion.
The game combines two main phases of play: a strategic "planetview" (called Planetscape) to manage resources and bases on a planetary scale, and a "battleview" (called Battlescape, under development) to match player-controlled squads against alien soldiers in turn-based combat.
In planetscape, the player will also be able to manufacture items or resources, conduct research on salvaged alien artefacts or new proposals on human technology, equip his soldier squads and aircraft with armor, weapons and various equipment (like medipacks and different kinds of grenades) and check his funding status.
Development
Historically Xenocide was developed utilizing C++ and the platform-independent Ogre 3D graphics engine. In recent months however a new branch based on
Microsoft XNA has gained favor among the current developers.On
2007-10-24 a new public Progress Release has been made available. That Progress Release bearing the Minor Number 2 features employee management, Research, Manufacturing, item transfer, illuminated night map and all the different types of UFO missions. Additionally many 3D models have been added.An audio pack including the games' music has also been released as a separate download.
Preliminary system requirements
*
Pentium IV orAMD Athlon 1800 MHz
* 512 MBRAM *(in current release due to memory loss 512Mb not recommended)
*Windows XP or Vista
*DirectX 9.0c
*.NET Framework 2.0
* XNA Refresh 1.0 Runtime Distribution
* GeForce FX 5200 / ATI Radeon 9200 or comparable, all with recent drivers.References
[http://www.projectxenocide.com/ Project Xenocide homepage]
[http://www.xcomufo.com/forums xcomufo forums]
[http://www.projectxenocide.com/art_recent_add.html Image Gallery]
[http://www.entdepot.com/interviews/projectxenocide/ Interview @ entdepot.com of an old C++ version]
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