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Spring 0.77b3

October 11th, 2008 by Nemoder

Almost 10 months of development led to a huge amount of improvements, check out the changelog for details.

Whats hot:
* New shiny water shader (by jK). It uses bumpmaps, it is both pretty and fast (see pic).
* Improved performance (faster gameplay, more FPS)
* Even more modding capabilities
* Improved autohosting with dedicated server
* As usual, lots of bugfixes

new water

Spring is an open source real-time strategy game inspired by Total Annihilation.
Check the setup guide and Linux forums for installation instructions and troubleshooting.

Screenshots: [ View ] Download: [ clan-sy.com ]

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8 Responses to “Spring 0.77b3”

  1. Nemoder Says:
    October 11th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    Oops, submitted that a bit too quick, forgot the link to their main page:
    http://spring.clan-sy.com
    Also that image is an old one, the one showing off the new water is here:
    http://licho.eu/alba/album01/new_water.sized.jpg

  2. f33l Says:
    October 15th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    spring 0.77b4 just got out, maybe another one coming up. can’t wait to play the new version of spring!

  3. tjwhaynes Says:
    October 15th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    If anyone actually manages to play PURE single player on this release, I’d appreciate a tip on how to launch it!

  4. f33l Says:
    October 15th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    I haven’t tried, but I guess there are still quite a few bugs left, which will have to be sorted out in the next couple weeks. It’ll be worth the wait!

  5. sparr Says:
    October 15th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    Spring is making such huge advances in the actual game technology… Too bad it is still such a pain in the ass to install and run. Welcome to Linux gaming, circa 1990.

  6. Nemoder Says:
    October 16th, 2008 at 9:56 am

    sparr:
    It’s only a pain in the ass if you try to build it from source, use one of the available distro packages or the binary installer if you want simple.

  7. f33l Says:
    October 16th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    sparr:

    i agree with you – most people won’t make the effort to first install the spring engine and then the lobby client, mods and maps separately. I’d be very nice if a basic bundle was offered via services like the opensuse build service, that at least installs the basic stuff, such that it becomes intuitively clear how to obtain other stuff.

  8. f33l Says:
    October 19th, 2008 at 7:33 am

    by the way – openSuse users listen up.

    spring packages for openSuse 10.3 and newer are kindly provided by the packman team:
    http://packman.links2linux.de/package/spring

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