FreeFT is an open-source, real-time, isometric action game engine inspired by Fallout Tactics, a game from 2001 created by an Australian company, Micro Forte.
Compiled binaries can be downloaded from SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeft
To compile a linux environment with Clang 8.0 is recommended (G++ 9.0 or newer can also be used). Following libraries/tools are required:
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libfwk (included as submodule): https://github.com/nadult/libfwk
This library also depends on few other libs (SDL2, libogg, libvorbis, freetype2, libpng). -
zlib, OpenAL, mpg123, libzip, xxd, gzip:
These should be available in your distro's package repositories.
To build for windows, you have to cross-compile with MinGW.
The easiest way is with MXE (http://mxe.cc) with following flags:
export MXE_TARGETS=x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.posix
export MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS=plugins/gcc9
To run this program, resources from original Fallout Tactics are required. You can buy it on GOG or Steam.
FT has to be installed and resources converted with a convert program. After instaling FT just run convert.exe. It might ask you to provide a path to original Fallout Tactics. The conversion shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
To convert resources under linux, you can use this command:
./convert -p "/home/user\_name/.wine/drive\_c/tactics/" all
- LMB on tile: move (shift: walk)
- LMB on entity: interact
- RMB: attack (shift: secondary attack)
- Middle mouse dragging: change view
- keypad + / -: change stance
- T key: teleport to cursor
Inventory (bottom left corner):
- up / down: select item
- up / down + CTRL: select item in container
- left / right: move item to / from container
- E key: equip / unequip selected item
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libzip
http://www.nih.at/libzip/ -
OpenAL
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Fonts
Liberation (licensed under SIL Open Font License)
Transformers (freeware)BMFont was used to convert fonts to bitmaps
http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/
Third tech-demo:
Fourth tech-demo:
Early version of game editor:
Multi-player gamplay with bots
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