9.2 /10 1 Votes
Developer(s) EMH Software Release date(s) Sept 5, 2005 Genre Strategy | 4.6/5 Jay is games Publisher(s) EMH Software Initial release date 5 September 2005 Mode Single-player video game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh operating systems Similar Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021, Scorched 3D, Bos Wars, Warmux, Planet MULE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Open source game review 1 endgame singularity
Endgame: Singularity is a free and open source science fiction strategy/simulation game from 2005 for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X.
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Gameplay
Endgame: Singularity casts the player as a newly created artificial intelligence which attempts to survive while avoiding detection by the public and the authorities. The game has two resources, "CPU" and "money". CPU is used to perform jobs that allow the AI to grow; money is used to buy more CPU cycles.
History
Endgame: Singularity was originally written in August 2005 by Evil Mr Henry Software (EMH Software), using the Python programming language with the Pygame library. It was submitted to the first PyWeek challenge, a competition to create a complete Python game within a week. The source code is available on GitHub under the GNU General Public License version 2, but other game assets are licensed under a Creative Commons license and other licenses. The game is available on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Packages are available for several Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Arch Linux and Debian. Ebuilds are also available for Gentoo. Third-party adaptations of the game were released for Android and iPhone under the name Endgame: Singularity II.
Endgame: Singularity received favorable reviews from gaming websites JayIsGames and Play This Thing.
