Free Empires Timeline
Fall 2005: Piga Software developers first played Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings and immediately start thinking about making a similar game 2006: Work beings on Free Empires with Game Maker. March - June 2007: Piga Software developers start using GNU/Linux as there main Operating System on Griffindor (There main Computer). April 2007: Work begins on Free Empires in Gambas. The Game Maker Free Empires stops being developed. May 23 2007: The Piga Software Forum is created and a Free Empires community is created. June 21st 2007: Free Empires Source Release 1.0 is Released to the Public July 6th 2007: Echelon Designs starts development on a Windows version of Free Empires with Visual Basic 2005 Express Summer 2007: Free Empires Source Release 2.0 is under development and is expected to be released by September 1st 2007. September 1st 2007: Free Empires Source Release 2.0 was unfortunately not released. The new release date was October 21st 2007, Age of Empires 10th Anniversary. October 21st 2007: Free Empires Source Release 2.0 was completed but not released sue to hosting problems. November 9th 2007: Free Empires Source Release 2.0 is released to the public. Today: Piga Software is working on Free Empires Source Release 3.0

I would release a windows release but I am having packaging issues

June 2008 Intended maximum due date for SR 3.0 and will sprout the SDL GG. These are not cast in stone however. December 2008 Hopefully will have most domestic functions completed. SR 4.0? 5.0? December 2009 Hopefully have a playable RTS. SR 6.0? 7.0? CR 1.0? Development in 08 should be better then in 07 since I know Gambas a lot better now, though learning a new renderer should take some time but is probably worth it. Man in a few months it will be a year since Hamish Piga announced FE on Linux Questions. :o

Of course all is obstructed by Fedora package maintainers. June 2008: probable release date for at least one of the tech demos. September 2008: hopefully have SR 3.0 done.

Sorry to keep making excuses for SR 3.0 but I am hardly at fault for a power cord malfunction am I? :wink: My nice Unit Movement Tech Demo as well as my templates for the others are all inaccessible for the time being. Don't worry though I can recreate all that is necessary for a Source Release if I work at it. I can also continue to hack SDL on HamishPiga's Fedora 9 Workstation. I am still aiming at having something by the end of September, though of course this strains it. :cry:

also note I have kinda given up on the windows port, at least for now. There isn't much point in trying too restart until the release of SR 3.0 since it is such a major change. The Windows Version is so outdated that it would be easier too start from scratch. Also I am planning on attempting too port Gambas too Windows, which if it works would be a better solution.