FreeCol

FreeCol is a 4X video game, a clone of ''Sid Meier's Colonization. FreeCol is free and open source software released under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. In 2023, the FreeCol'' project reached its 1.0 release, after twenty years of development.

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Released: 2014-02-18
User rating: 3.08 / 5
Genres: Adventure, Action
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
ESRB: Mature

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FreeCol is a 4X video game, a clone of Sid Meier's Colonization. FreeCol is free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License v2. FreeCol is mostly programmed in Java and should thus be platform-independent.

Released: 2003
Genres: Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Engine: Java
Developer: The Freecol Team
Publisher: The Freecol Team

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Key facts

Software.logo: File:Freecol Ship.png
Software.logo caption: Challenge the New World...
Software.screenshot: FreeCol0 5 2 mapboard.jpg
Software.caption: Screenshot from FreeCol 0.5.2
Software.author: The Freecol Team
Software.developer: SourceForge project FreeCol
Software.latest release version: 1.2.0
Software.programming language: Java
Software.platform: Java platform 11 or later, display 1024×768 or more
Software.language: af ang ar arz be bg br bs ca cs-CZ da de el en-GB eo es et eu fa fi fr gl grc he hsb hu ia id it-IT ja km ko lt mk ms nb nds nl nl-BE nn oc pl-PL pms pt-BR pt-PT qqq ru sq sv ta tl tr uk zh-CN
Software.language count: 54
Software.language footnote:  (translatewiki.net)
Software.genre: Turn-based strategy video game
Software.license: GPL-2.0-or-later

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Source code

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The FreeCol team aims to create an Open Source version of Colonization (released under the GPL). At first we'll try to make an exact clone of Colonization. The visuals will be brought up to date with more recent standards but will remain clean, simple and functional. Certain new 'features' will be implemented but the gameplay and the rules will be exactly the same as the original game. Examples of modern features are: an isometric map and multiplayer support. Once FreeCol 1.0.0 is finished we'll start working towards FreeCol 2.0.0. FreeCol 2 will go beyond the original Colonization and will have many new features, it will be an implementation of our (and our users') image of what Colonization 2 would have been. The latest binary releases are created weekly and contain Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux installers. Download the latest nightly release and play the game. Report any bugs you find to our Bug Tracker. Suggest features or improvements in our Improvement Requests Tracker. Discuss FreeCol on our Forums. Contribute to our code base by Forking and submitting a Pull Request. See Creating a pull request from a fork. The source code is licensed under the GPL v2. Most of the content, like artwork, music and sound effects, are also licensed under GPL v2. Some of the content is licensed using CC BY 4.0. Please refer to the README file in the same directory as the included content for more details.

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.freecol.org
Image: FreeCol0 5 2 mapboard.jpg

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Commons category: FreeCol
software version identifier: 0.13.0
inception: 2003-01-02
publication date: 2009-05-12
source code repository URL: github.com/FreeCol/freecol
translation contribution URL: translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:FreeCol

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FreeCol is a 4X video game, a clone of ''Sid Meier's Colonization. FreeCol is free and open source software released under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. In 2023, the FreeCol project reached its 1.0 release, after twenty years of development.

FreeCol is mostly programmed in Java and should thus be platform-independent. In practice, it is known to run on Linux and Windows, as well as Mac OS X (with some limitations).