TripleA is a turn based strategy game engine and Axis and Allies clone. JAVA 1.5 Required!
What is TripleA ?
Triplea is a networked open source strategy gaming engine. It allows people to implement and play various strategy board games (ie. Axis & Allies ®). The TripleA engine has full networking support for online play, support for sounds, XML support for game files, and has its own imaging subsystem that allows for customized user editable maps to be used. TripleA is versatile, scalable and robust.
Triplea is released under the GNU Public License (GPL).
About TripleA
TripleA was started in Oct 2001 by an unemployed sgb who was looking for a way to build up his resume after the end of the tech bubble. Unfortunately sgb was too successful, and soon after the 0.1 release (which he managed to demo in a job interview) he secured gainful employment.
sgb working full time dramatically slowed the progress of TripleA for a long time. Numerous people made contributions to the project, including both DMA02 and IronCross from a very early stage, but with sgb doing most of the development, and with the limited early graphics, the project did not improve dramatically.
TripleA would have continued on this slow trajectory, but two events occurring relatively closely revitalized the project. The first was the contribution by Logan of new graphics. Now the game actually looked alright. The second event was the release of the revised map and rules. With no competing real time game, interest in TripleA increased.
TripleA 0.3.1 was probably the first version that was really playable in networked mode. And since then, increasing community interest, and with great contributions from a number of people, TripleA continues to grow and prosper.
- Sean Bridges
TripleA can come in two different packages, a binary package and a source package. A binary package is one where the entire game is ready to be played right out of the box. A source package is one in which the source code of the game is provided. The individual who uses the source package is expected to compile (build) the game before being able to play it. The source package is mainly directed towards developers and others who are interested in modifying the game for one reason or another.
TripleA is programmed exclusively in the JAVA programming language which allows it to be platform independent. That means that TripleA can run on many operating systems so long as it has a Sun Compliant 1.5 Version Java Virtual Machine. Such operating systems where TripleA has been successfully tested on are: GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/XP, Mac OS X Tiger or Later, SGI IRIX, and IBM OS/2.
Even though TripleA is exclusively a strategy gaming engine with a robust framework, it comes with some games included. It would be rather boring if you just got the engine without any interesting games included. TripleA comes with the following supported games that uses its game engine (just to name a few):
* Axis & Allies : Classic edition (2nd, 3rd with options enabled)
* Axis & Allies : Revised Edition
* Pact of Steel A&A Variant
* Big World 1942 A&A Variant
* Two if by Sea
* Battle Ship Row
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