Age of Empires
Age of Empires is a 1997 real-time strategy video game based on the ancient world, developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft, and the first game in the Age of Empires series. The game uses the Genie Engine, a 2D sprite-based game engine. The game allows the user to act as the leader of an ancient civilization by advancing it through four ages, gaining access to new and improved units with each advance.
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A from-scratch, cross-platform reimplementation of Age of Empires and Rise of Rome, requiring the player's own game copy.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars128
Updated2 months ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Release2016
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Chariot is an early-stage Rust and SDL2 reimplementation of the 1997 Age of Empires engine, with no playable game yet as of 2016.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars432
Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2016
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A free engine clone of Age of Empires' Genie Engine; it needs the original game assets, and gameplay is being rebuilt.
Platforms:Linux
Stars14,432
Updated12 days ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013