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Warfare Incorporated has been open sourced
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scottlu
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 Post Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 6:42 pm  Post subject: Warfare Incorporated has been open sourced

The complete source code and content for Warfare Incorporated has been released under the BSD open source license. The open sourced version is called Hostile Takeover. We'll continue to maintain a Warfare Incorporated branded version, and we'll pull good changes to the open source version into Warfare Incorporated.

https://github.com/spiffcode/hostile-takeover

Please feel free to post questions and I'll do my best to answer them.

Thanks,
Scott
N@TE
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Location: Colorado
 Post Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 9:15 pm  

Wow, this is excellent! Thanks for the work I know you and Darrin put into this. I'll do my best to contribute. :-)

I got a kick out of it being called Hostile Takeover, the original title to WI.
scottlu
WI Founder


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 Post Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:30 pm  

Yes it was the original name. By the time we went to release the original, that name had been registered by a different company. When we went to open source we checked again and the registration had elapsed and it was available again, so we had our name for the open source version.
scottlu
WI Founder


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 Post Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:33 pm  

By the way you can see the new art we commissioned here:

https://github.com/spiffcode/art2432
trineroks
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Location: Southern Cali (UCLA)
 Post Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:23 am  

I ran the game through Xcode; it's a bit strange to see "Hostile Takeover" as the game logo :lol:.
N104
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Location: Pennsylvania
 Post Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 9:49 am  

Thanks Scott (and Darrin) for doing this! Can't wait to see what type of things happen!

trineroks wrote:
I ran the game through Xcode; it's a bit strange to see "Hostile Takeover" as the game logo :lol:.
Yeah, it surprised me for a sec.

scottlu wrote:
By the way you can see the new art we commissioned here:

https://github.com/spiffcode/art2432
Looks pretty nice.
Yoshiya
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Location: right here
 Post Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 4:19 pm  

Yay! It was released!!! Now I just need to get a Mac... And learn how to code... Lol
doom
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 Post Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 6:58 pm  

thank you.


and

whoever fixes the darn login issues gets a £50 note.
scottlu
WI Founder


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Posts: 1773
 Post Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 11:26 pm  

We fixed that, now we need to release a WI update.
LawrenceA
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Location: New Zealand
 Post Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:03 am  

scottlu wrote:
Yes it was the original name. By the time we went to release the original, that name had been registered by a different company. When we went to open source we checked again and the registration had elapsed and it was available again, so we had our name for the open source version.

Score!

It's great to see WI/HT progressing again. Thank you Scott! :)

Edit:
It's been a while since I've been involved in any programming or coding. What are the requirements, for a noob like myself, to be able to successfully alter HT and then run the augmented version?

Edit 2:
The requirements can be found here: https://github.com/spiffcode/hostile-takeover
galm
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Joined: 18 Oct 2009
Posts: 2382
Location: New York
 Post Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 1:30 pm  

AWESOME Scott!!!! This is awesome! I'll definitely try to start coding! I'm busy atm but I hope I can start working on this in a month or so or something.
Mithoz
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 Post Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:39 am  

Has anyone done anything yet?
N104
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Location: Pennsylvania
 Post Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:38 pm  

Mithoz wrote:
Has anyone done anything yet?
Open source just means anyone has access to the game's source code. They can't modify the actual WI app or server without having Scott involved. OF course, someone could make their own version of WI with the source code and post it in the appstore, but I haven't heard of anyone doing so.
ogamo
WI Forum Novice
Joined: 03 Mar 2010
Posts: 9
 Post Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:29 pm  Post subject: Updates

I'd love to see where this goes. I will likely learning C++ in college here in the fall. So if someone I know we'll from WI is working on it, I'd like to participate.
This is a genius game, and I want to be a part.
It has been so long since I've been around. Thank you Scott, I hope all is well!
ogamo
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Joined: 03 Mar 2010
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 Post Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:32 pm  Post subject: Marketing

I have personal skills in SEO, SEM, and Ppc. So even if I can't help develop any for nate makes, or if Scott updates it. I'd enjoy marketing the app. Lemme know if I can help that way.
carthesian
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 Post Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 1:14 pm  Post subject: Awesome!!!

I waited so long to hear this!
Yoshiya
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 Post Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:19 am  

Get a Mac: check
Learn to code: umm kinda in progress XD

But seriously I'm in I'll help in whatever ways I can(although that isn't much...)
N104
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 Post Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:32 am  

I've been working on learning C++ and have a decent handle on it. We should try to get a few people together and work on some type of community update!
galm
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Location: New York
 Post Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 3:36 pm  

xcode can actually be done in windows guys.
http://blog.getspool.com/79/download-install-xcode-windows-7-8-pc/
If you know how to code than this should be easy to install. I may get around to it soon, right now I'm focused on Java and C languages unfortunately.
N104
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 Post Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 3:51 pm  

galm wrote:
xcode can actually be done in windows guys.
I have a mac emulator on my PC :twisted:

galm wrote:
I may get around to it soon, right now I'm focused on Java and C languages unfortunately.
The majority of the game is programmed in C++ and the developer tools are C#.
trineroks
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 Post Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 8:46 am  

galm wrote:
xcode can actually be done in windows guys.
http://blog.getspool.com/79/download-install-xcode-windows-7-8-pc/
If you know how to code than this should be easy to install. I may get around to it soon, right now I'm focused on Java and C languages unfortunately.
This is not done on Windows; this is done on a virtual machine running OS X.

And the game is written almost exclusively in C/C++.
N104
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 Post Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 8:49 am  

trineroks wrote:
This is not done on Windows; this is done on a virtual machine running OS X.
But the virtual machine runs on Windows. So essentially you're getting Xcode to run on Windows, you're just going through a few extra things.
galm
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 Post Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 11:30 am  

alright well when I get some free time I'll check it out, I looked at it already briefly, but I need some more time.
ogamo
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 Post Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 5:54 pm  Post subject: Open code great news

Finally getting this after 3 years, downloaded it on my Galaxy. Well done! Hope to see everyone again!
Joebro123
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Joined: 14 Feb 2010
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 Post Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 8:27 pm  

Thanks for open sourcing it, it's great to be able to come back to this game after so long and still be able to enjoy it!