News
We Won Second Place!
0 A.D. has just won second place in IndieDB’s Player’s Choice for Upcoming Indie of the Year contest for 2012. Thanks so much to all the wonderful …
2012
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Release
New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 12 Loucetios
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of “0 A.D. Alpha 12 Loucetios”, the twelfth alpha …
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Interview with Cheerful Ghost
We have just conducted an interview with Jon from Cheerful Ghost. Nothing really new for people who have been following the project closely, but it …
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Please Vote for Us Again in IOTY 2012!
Just a few days ago, we made it once more to the top 100 indie games on Indie DB! Thanks for your support, but we need your help to vote for us one …
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Welcome to the New 0 A.D. Website!
Wildfire Games proudly presents the new 0 A.D. website, a new showcase for the game and FOSS project we have all grown to love. You’ll notice that the …
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Indie of the Year 2012
It’s that time of year again. For those unfamiliar with the event, each year ModDB and IndieDB hold a contest for the best mods and indie games of the …
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Packing Siege: Work In Progress
Packing siege is one of the many requested and long-planned features for 0 A.D. Currently, siege engines in 0 A.D. can move and attack freely like a …
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Featured contributor: myconid
If you’ve been reading the latest development updates the name myconid should be familiar to you. If not: he’s the one who’s been working on adding …
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Table of Contents
Edit 2018-09-09: This content may be outdated. We hope to make a new website soon, which will be easier to maintain. 1. Game Objectives and Rules 2. …
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1. Game Objectives and Rules
In a nutshell, in 0 A.D., you start out with three things: Buildings, such as civic centers, Units, such as female citizens and male soldiers, that …
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2. User Interface Basics
The following inputs affect what happens on screen: Selecting objects: Left-click to select an object, such as a building or a unit. (Notice an …
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3. Gathering Resources
The sum of all resources on the map is limited. These resources can be gathered in several ways: Food: Foraging from bushes and certain trees; Hunting …
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4. Training Units
Most buildings in 0 A.D. can train (create) units. If you select a building, you can see in the bottom right panel what types of units can be trained …
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5. Working with Units
Units in 0 A.D. can be placed on a continuum from “civilian-only”, which are almost exclusively used for accumulating resources, to “military-only”, …
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6. Exploring the Map
Shroud of Darkness You begin with only a small portion of the map revealed to you; The rest is covered in black. This black cover is called the Shroud …
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7. Dynamic Territories
Most buildings can only be built within your own territory, marked by colored borders on the ground. Players can expand their territory by …
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8. Technologies and Phases
Technologies Technologies, or techs, are economic or military bonuses that can be “researched” (bought) for resources at designated buildings. Hover …
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9. Combat
Types of Combat Units With a few exceptions, all combat units belong to one of these types: Infantry: Warriors fighting on foot, with swords, bows and …
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10. Trade and Bartering
Trade Trading allows you to gain resources simply by having your traders shuttle between markets or docks. Traders that travel over land can be …
Development
0 A.D. Development Report #8 (Week 40 – 42)
Wildfire Games, the international group of volunteers developing 0 A.D., are happy to present this week’s 0 A.D. development report. If you want to …
Development
0 A.D. Development Report #7 (Week 38+39)
Wildfire Games, the international group of volunteers developing 0 A.D., are happy to present this week’s 0 A.D. development report. If you want to …
Release
New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 11 Kronos
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of “0 A.D. Alpha 11 Kronos”, the eleventh alpha …
News
Small forum changes
Nothing too drastic this time, only a few measures against spammers. First we’ve replaced the generic questions people have to answer to be able to …
Development
0 A.D. Development Report #6 (Week 35)
Wildfire Games, the international group of volunteers developing 0 A.D., are happy to present this week’s 0 A.D. development report.
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Featured contributor: Deiz
This time we feature Deiz, one of the more recent contributors to join the team, but also one of the more productive recently. He’s mostly been …
Development
0 A.D. Development Report #5 (Week 34)
Wildfire Games, the international group of volunteers developing 0 A.D., are happy to present this week’s 0 A.D. development report. If you want to …
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0 A.D. Development Report #4 (Week 33)
Wildfire Games, the international group of volunteers developing 0 A.D., are happy to present this week’s 0 A.D. development report. If you want to …
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0 A.D. Development Report #3 (Week 32)
Wildfire Games, the international group of volunteers developing 0 A.D., are happy to present this week’s 0 A.D. development report. If you want to …
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0 A.D. Development Report #2 (Week 31)
Wildfire Games, the international group of volunteers developing 0 A.D., are happy to present this week’s 0 A.D. development report. If you want to …
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0 A.D. Development Report #1 (Week 30)
The wait between consequent alpha releases can be hard, we realize that. To ease the pain we — the international bunch of volunteers that is Wildfire …
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Featured contributor: Jeroen, aka vts, aka vtsj
This time Jeroen, aka vts is our featured contributor. He has been working on both minor fixes and big things like the wall system. Read on for a …
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SourceForge interview with contributors to 0 A.D.
Q: As you’ve been working on this project, what’s been been your biggest surprise that’s come along during this process? A: The biggest surprise would …
News
User ranks/titles suggestions
As you may have noticed there are custom titles displayed above the avatars in the forum. They are based on the post count and can be changed to …
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We Won!
We won SourceForge’s June Project of the Month poll! It was neck and neck for days with Sourcefabric’s Newscoop, a FOSS CMS for news websites, but …
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Please vote for 0 A.D. on Sourceforge Project of the Month!
If you have a Twitter account, please consider voting for 0 A.D. as Sourceforge’s project of the month for June 2012. Just a few hours left. This way …
Release
New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 10 Jhelum
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of “0 A.D. Alpha 10 Jhelum”, the tenth alpha …
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Want to help out? Two new positions open!
While we wrap up things to be able to release Alpha 10 we want to highlight a few new open positions where you can help out. Read on to see if you …
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Forum Upgrade Complete
We’ve completed another forum upgrade, and we hope you like it! This release didn’t come without issues. There are two known issues at this time: The …
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Forum Upgrade Today
Later today, Wildfire Games will be performing an upgrade to it’s forum software. The upgrade will start around 7 PM GMT. During this time, the forum …
Release
New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 9 Ides of March
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of “0 A.D. Alpha 9 Ides of March”, the ninth alpha …
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Member and OS Contributor of the Month November 2011
It’s time for the third part in the series where we take a closer look at some of the people working on creating 0 A.D. This time the honor goes to …