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               Stratagus - A free fantasy real time strategy game engine

# Stratagus

## What is Stratagus?

Stratagus is a free cross-platform real-time strategy gaming engine. It includes support for playing over Internet/LAN, or playing vs. computer opponents. The engine is configurable and can be used to create games with a wide-range of features specific to your needs.

Stratagus started as a clone of the realtime fantasy strategy game Warcraft II from Blizzard Entertainment, although it is used now as a game engine to build other games, sci-fi or fantasy ones.

Stratagus is developed together for Windows, Linux and Linux Maemo based devices (Nokia N900).

Games which use Stratagus:

- Wargus - Warcraft II - https://launchpad.net/wargus
- War1gus - Warcraft I - https://launchpad.net/war1gus
- Stargus - Starcraft I - https://launchpad.net/stargus

The newest version of Stratagus can always be found here: https://launchpad.net/stratagus

## Installation

Read this to install Stratagus: install.html

## Development

Read development.html if you want to help out with Stratagus development

Documentation on the Stratagus scripting language (Lua) can be found at http://www.lua.org/manual/

## Documentation

Source code DoxyGen documentation is generated when Stratagus is compiling. See development.html for further details.

Information about creating sounds and graphics can be found in the media documentation.

Information about Stratagus Lua scripting can be found in the scripting documentation.

Information about metaserver protocol is in metaserver_protocol.txt.

## Changes

The changelog on Stratagus can be found at changelog.html

## Todo and known bugs

Look on the blueprints site for the planned work.

Also look at the complete list of known bugs

## Problems

If you have problems compiling, installing or playing Stratagus, read faq.html

## Copyrights

Stratagus is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2

SDL see README-SDL.txt

Guichan see guichan-copyright.txt.

(C) Copyright 1998-2012 by The Stratagus Project under the GNU General Public License.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.