Crossfire

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Crossfire

GenreMMORPG
DevelopersFrank Tore Johansen, Mark Wedel, and the rest of the Crossfire team
Code licenseGPL
Media licenseGPL
Latest release1.60.0
Release dateFebruary 2nd, 2011

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.

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[edit] Clients

There are various clients that can be used to play Crossfire. The screenshot displays crossfire-client-gtk2.

As of 2011-07-26, the latest client for the game is GTK-v2 client version 1.60.0 released on February 2nd, 2011.

[edit] Development history

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]

[edit] Derivatives

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)[5]

[edit] References

  1. Crossfire license page
  2. Directory for historic releases of Crossfire
  3. Copyright information on Crossfire
  4. CVS page states that the project migrated to Subversion
  5. History of the Daimonin Project

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