About
Olympia is a play-by-email strategy game created by Rich Skrenta; two versions (G1 and G2) were run commercially by Shadow Island Games until the game shut down in the mid-2000s. This repository holds the source code of Olympia: The Age of Gods, Scott Turner's updated and enhanced version of Olympia, released under the BSD 3-clause license. As of October 2022 the maintainers were cleaning up the code to run on Linux, Mac, and Windows, reformatting the source and adding CMake support without bug fixes or new features.
How it differs from the original
According to Scott Turner, The Age of Gods adds hundreds of new skills and more complex military and economic systems compared with Rich Skrenta's original Olympia.
History
After Olympia shut down, Rich Skrenta released its code base; Scott Turner launched The Age of Gods in 1998, and it was also hosted by Shadow Island Games.
Additional notes
- Technical
- The base code needs the -m32 compiler flag because its ilist module assumes pointers and integers are the same size; the cleanup plans to fix this for 64-bit systems.