| 📰 Title: | Widelands | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Management | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) |
| 🏷️ Category: | Management ➤ Base-Building & City-Building ➤ Settlers | 🌍️ Browser version: | |
| 🔖 Tags: | Colony Sim; City-Building; Strategy; Diplomacy; Settlers; Management; Macromanagement; Resource Management; Gathering; Economy; Trading; Transportation; Exploration; Conquest; Tactical; Military; Medieval; Remake; Cult Classic; Campaigns; Fog of War; Hand-Drawn; Cute; Replay Value; Flagship; Local Multi; Online Multi; Competitive; Campaigns; Level Editor; Keyboard; Mouse | 📦️ Package Name: | widelands |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 2002-02-03 | 📦️ Arch package: |  |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 2022-10-23 | 📦️ RPM package: | |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: 1.1 / Dev: 4ce5025 | 📦️ Deb package: | |
| 🏛️ License type: | 🕊️ Libre | 📦️ Flatpak package: | |
| 🏛️ License: | GPL-2+ | 📦️ AppImage package: | |
| 🏝️ Perspective: | Third person | 📦️ Snap package: | |
| 👁️ Visual: | 2D Top-Down | ⚙️ Generic binary: | |
| ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time | 📄️ Source: | |
| 👫️ Played: | Single & Multi | 📱️ PDA support: | |
| 🎖️ This record: |  |
🕳️ Not used: | |
| 🎀️ Game design: | 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & KIAaze | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 13417 | 🐛️ Created: | 2010-08-20 |
| 🐜️ Updated: | 2023-04-15 |
| [en]: | A libre, multi-platform, SP (AI, and campaigns) / MP (online / in LAN) RTS game similar to Settlers II, focusing on macro-economic management, and where fighting is not a priority. The objective is to develop its tribe (4 tribes available: Barbarians, Empire, Atlanteans, Frisons) making the best use of the available resources, while composing with the surrounding tribes. The player does not individually manage his thousands of subjects, but sets them a goal that they will strive to achieve. A game of very good quality that keeps getting better since 2002! | [fr]: | Un jeu libre et multi-plateforme de stratégie temps réel solo (IA, et campagnes) / multi (en ligne / en LAN) similaire à Settlers II, mettant l'accent sur le macro-management économique, les combats passant en 2nd plan. L'objectif est de développer sa tribu (4 tribus : Barbares, Empire, Atlantes, Frisons) en exploitant au mieux les ressources à disposition, toute en composant avec les tribus environnantes. Le joueur ne dirige pas individuellement ses milliers de sujets, mais leur fixe un objectif qu'ils s'emploieront à atteindre. Un jeu de très bonne qualité qui ne cesse de s'améliorer depuis 2002 ! |
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🏝️ Trailer: (201611),
🦉️ From Devs: (201810), (201806), (201805),
🎲️ Gameplay: (202208), (202201), [fr](201511),
🐧 Linux plays: LudoChris (202207), Chris Were Digital (201808), Open Source Games (201612),
🏡️ Website & videos
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🐘 Social
Devs (The Widelands Development Team 1 2 [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2 3] [Chat] [mastodon] [twitter] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
Devs (Holger Rapp (SirVer) [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2 3] [mastodon] [twitter] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
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🕹️ Title: Widelands
🦊️ What's: A libre RTS game similar to Settlers 2, focusing on macro-economic management
🏡️ https://wl.widelands.org
🐣️ https://github.com/widelands
🔖 #LinuxGaming #Flagship #Strategy #RTS #EmpireBuilding #Economy
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm
📖 Our entry: http://www.lebottindesjeuxlinux.tuxfamily.org/en/online/lights-on/
🥁️ Update: 1.1
⚗️ Major upgrade 🪙️
📌️ Changes: https://www.widelands.org/news/2022/Oct/23/widelands-1-1-released/
🐘 From: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/109223805080142432
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📕🐧"A libre RTS game similar to Settlers II, focusing on macro-economic management, and where fighting is not a priority"🐧📕
Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it. Still, it is easy to get started through playable tutorials.
Widelands is a strategy game aiming for gameplay similar to Settlers II by BlueByte. In this game, you start out on a small piece of land with nothing more than a few of useful resources. Using those, you can build yourself an empire with many thousands of inhabitants. On your way towards this goal, you will have to build up an economic infrastructure, explore the lands around you and face enemies who are trying to rule the world just like you do.
In Widelands, you are the regent of a small clan. You start out with nothing but your headquarters, where all your resources are stored.
In the course of the game, you will build an ever growing settlement. Every member of your clan will do his or her part to produce more resources - wood, food, iron, gold and more - to further this growth. The economic network is complex and different in the three tribes (Barbarians, Imperials, and Atlanteans).
As you are not alone in the world, you will meet other clans sooner or later. Some of them may be friendly and you may eventually trade with them. However, if you want to rule the world, you will have to train soldiers and fight.
Widelands offers a unique style of play. For example, a system of roads plays a central role in your economy: all the goods that are harvested and processed by the tribe must be transported from one building to the next. This is done by carriers, and those carriers always walk along the roads. It is your job to lay out the roads as efficiently as possible.
Another refreshing aspect of the game is the way you command your clan. There is no need to tell every single one of your subjects what to do - that would be impossible, because there can be thousands of them! Instead, all you need to do is order them to build a building somewhere, and the builders will come. Similarly, whenever you want to attack an enemy, just place an order to attack one of their barracks, and your soldiers will march to fight. You're really a ruler: You delegate in times of war and in times of peace!
Widelands offers single-player mode with different campaigns; the campaigns all tell stories of tribes and their struggle in the Widelands universe! However, settling really starts when you unite with friends over the Internet or LAN to build up new empires together - or to crush each other in the dusts of war. Widelands also offers an Artificial Intelligence to challenge you.
In the end, Widelands will be extensible, so that you can create your own tribe with their own set of buildings, create new worlds to play in, and even create new types of worlds (who says you can't build a settlement on the moon?).
🍥️ Debian:
Fantasy real-time strategy game
Widelands is a strategy game aiming for gameplay similar to Settlers II by BlueByte.
In this game, you start out on a small piece of land with nothing more than a few of useful resources. Using those, you can build yourself an empire with many thousands of inhabitants. On your way towards this goal, you will have to build up an economic infrastructure, explore the lands around you and face enemies who are trying to rule the world just like you do.
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Widelands is a free slow-paced real-time strategy video game under the GNU General Public License. Widelands takes many ideas from and is quite similar to The Settlers and The Settlers II. It is still a work in progress game, with development still required in graphics and bugfixing. The game runs on several operating systems such as AmigaOS 4, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Windows.
Gameplay
Widelands has single-player, local network and internet multiplayer modes, single-player campaign missions, and an internationalisation system with translations for British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Low German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish. Players may select one of five different tribes: the human-like "Empire", the "Barbarians", the "Atlanteans", the "Frisians", and the "Amazons".
The game provides four basic tutorials and four tutorial campaigns. Advanced players can create their own maps with the included map editor. It is also possible to import and play original Settlers II maps.
Development
The first version of Widelands was published in August 2002. Widelands 1.0, the first stable version, was released 19 years later in June 2021. The latest release of Widelands as of October 2022 is version 1.1.
Reception
The game was reviewed by Linux Journal which noted:
Delve into this game, and there's much that lies beneath the surface. It has simple things that please, like how the in-game menus are very sophisticated and solid, with none of the bugginess you get in many amateur games. But, it's the complete reversal of hyperspeed in its gameplay that I really love. I always want to get back to building my base when playing most RTS games, but I'm constantly drawn away by fire fights. This game lets you keep building, and places serious emphasis on how you do it.
The German LinuxUser magazine reviewed Widelands in issue 4/2008 in a three A4-paged article.
The German c’t magazin wrote a short review of Widelands in their 4/2008 issue and included a Windows version of Widelands Build 11 on their magazin DVD.
The French free software website Framasoft remarked:
This 2d game with a top-down view is a classic RTS remake, with simple graphics, although functional and efficient. We quickly found the happiness of the old Settlers series with the management of different sized sites, the positioning of the roads which bring resources and advancing your zone of influence with different military buildings.
Widelands was selected in September 2010 as "HotPick" by Linux Format magazine.
In 2022 the Slovenian magazine Jazbina briefly reviewed Widelands in a Settlers retrospective, describing it as "another unfinished free alternative, but one that is friendly, ambitious and maverick".
Un jeu de stratégie inspiré de Settlers II (de Blue Byte Software), par The Widelands Development Team, initié par Holger Rapp (SirVer).
En C++.
Widelands est un jeu libre et multi-plateforme de stratégie temps réel solo (IA, et campagnes) / multi (en ligne / en LAN) similaire à Settlers II, mettant l'accent sur le macro-management économique, les combats passant en 2nd plan. L'objectif est de développer sa tribu (4 tribus disponibles : Barbares, Empire, Atlantes, Frisons) en exploitant au mieux les ressources à disposition, toute en composant avec les tribus environnantes. Le joueur ne dirige pas individuellement ses milliers de sujets, mais leur fixe un objectif qu'ils s'emploieront à atteindre. Un jeu de très bonne qualité qui ne cesse de s'améliorer depuis 2002 !
Voir aussi / See also: The Settlers 2 - Return To The Roots, Widelands,
Widelands est un jeu de stratégie en temps réel libre et open source avec des campagnes solo et un mode multijoueur. Le jeu a été inspiré par Settlers II ™ (© Bluebyte) mais a beaucoup plus de variété et de profondeur. Néanmoins, il est facile de commencer avec des tutoriels jouables.
Widelands est un jeu de stratégie visant à fournir un gameplay similaire à Settlers II de BlueByte. Dans ce jeu, vous commencez sur un petit bout de terrain avec rien de plus que quelques ressources utiles. En utilisant celles-ci, vous pouvez vous construire un empire avec plusieurs milliers d'habitants. En chemin vers cet objectif, vous devrez construire une infrastructure économique, explorer les terres autour de vous et affronter des ennemis qui essaient de gouverner le monde comme vous le faites.
Dans Widelands, vous êtes le chef d'un petit clan. Vous commencez la partie avec un quartier général qui abrite quelques ressources, qu'il faudra rapidement produire par vous-même.
Au fil du jeu, vous allez sans cesse agrandir votre campement. Chaque membre de votre clan participera à la production de ressources - bois, nourriture, fer, or entre autres - pour conquérir de nouvelles terres. Le réseau économique est complexe et différent dans chacune des trois tribus (Barbares, Impériaux et Atlantes).
Comme vous n'êtes pas seul dans le monde, vous rencontrerez d'autres clans, tôt ou tard. Certains d'entre eux peuvent être amicaux et vous pourriez éventuellement commercer avec eux. Cependant, si vous voulez régner sur le monde, vous aurez à former des soldats et à vous battre.
Widelands propose un style de jeu unique. Par exemple, le système de routes joue un rôle central dans votre économie: tous les produits récoltés et transformés par la tribu doivent être transportés d'un bâtiment à un autre. Cela se fait grâce aux porteurs, qui utilisent toujours les routes. Il est donc primordial de créer un réseau routier aussi efficace que possible.
Un autre aspect rafraîchissant du jeu est la façon dont vous commandez votre clan. Il n'y a pas besoin de dire à chacun de vos sujets ce qu'il faut faire - ce serait impossible, car ils peuvent être des milliers ! Au lieu de cela, tout ce que vous devez faire est de donner l'ordre de construire un bâtiment quelque part, et un constructeur s'y rendra. De même, chaque fois que vous voulez attaquer un ennemi, il vous suffit de donner l'ordre d'attaquer un bâtiment militaire ennemi, et vos soldats iront se battre. Vous êtes vraiment un donneur d'ordres : vous déléguez en temps de guerre comme en temps de paix !
Widelands offre un mode solo avec différentes campagnes qui racontent l'histoire des tribus et de leur lutte dans l'univers de Widelands ! Toutefois, le jeu prend toute son ampleur lorsque vous vous unissez avec vos amis sur Internet ou en LAN pour construire de nouveaux empires ensemble - ou de vous défier les uns les autres dans des guerres épiques et de faire mordre la poussière à vos ennemis ! Widelands offre également une intelligence artificielle pour vous défier.
Widelands est conçu pour être extensible, de sorte que vous pouvez créer votre propre tribu avec son histoire et ses propres bâtiments, de nouvelles cartes et de nouveaux mondes, et même de nouveaux types de mondes (qui a dit que vous ne pouvez pas construire une colonie sur la lune ?) !
🍥️ Debian:
Jeu de stratégie en temps réel dans un monde imaginaire
Widelands est un jeu de stratégie visant une jouabilité similaire à Settlers II de BlueByte.
Le joueur débute avec une petite parcelle de terre et seulement un petit peu de ressources utiles. Avec cela, il doit construire un empire avec plusieurs milliers d’habitants. Pour atteindre ce but, le joueur doit bâtir une infrastructure économique, explorer les territoires environnants et faire face aux ennemis qui veulent, tout comme lui, dominer le monde.
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Widelands est un jeu vidéo de stratégie en temps réel libre similaire à The Settlers II et gratuit.
Quatre civilisations sont jouables : les Barbares, l'Empire romain, les Atlantes et les Frisons, disposant chacune de son système économique. Le jeu propose un éditeur de niveaux. Il est programmé en C++ et repose sur la bibliothèque SDL.