9.6 /10 1 Votes
Engine FIFE | 4.8/5 SourceForge Release 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer(s) The Unknown Horizons Team Publisher(s) The Unknown Horizons Team Similar Widelands, The Adventur, Lincity, MegaGlest, FreeCol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Unknown Horizons is a genre-mix of city-building game and real-time strategy game, strongly inspired by the Anno series. It is released under the GNU General Public License and is therefore free and open source software. The game is still under active development, milestone snapshots are released occasionally.
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History
Unknown Horizons originated in the OpenAnno project from 2005 which aimed for being a clone of Anno 1602. The project uses FIFE as game engine and features isometric 2D graphics. Since FIFE also is in development stage and Unknown Horizons is the first major project based on this engine, the developers of Unknown Horizons have agreed to help with development on FIFE. Python was chosen as the language for this project because it is the language best supported by FIFE, guarantees cross-platform compatibility, and allows rapid development. The models for Unknown Horizons are created using Blender and then rendered in four rotations (eight for units).
The first public alpha version was released on October 1, 2008. Development currently focuses on implementing more game-play content (buildings, resource production lines). Next major steps in development include usability improvements and an island editor.
In 2009 the project was renamed from OpenAnno to Unknown Horizons.
Unknown Horizons took part at the Google Summer of Code 2011 as a mentoring organization and participated again in 2012.
The latest release is version 2017.2.147
Gameplay
The player guides a group of people settling in a newly discovered archipelago of islands. The player must provide miscellaneous goods (including food, lumber and tools) and public services for the settlers' welfare. The inhabitants in return pay taxes which is the main source of income.
When supplied adequately, the population will grow and the inhabitants will rise to higher social classes. Currently, there are six different settlement levels planned and more than 40 different buildings available.
The starting increment is called "Sailors". Players can set up a basic infrastructure and provide inhabitants with resources such as food. In the second increment "Pioneers", new buildings become available. Buildings begin to look like wooden constructions instead of tents. Increment 3 is named "Settlers" and progress is shown by half-timbered buildings. The remaining three increments "Citizens", "Merchants" and "Aristocrats" are designed, but not yet implemented.
Reception
Despite its alpha state, Unknown Horizons already appeared in issue 24/09 of the German c't computer magazine, as a part of the Heise software collection 6/09. Between 2009 and 2016 Unknown Horizon was downloaded from Sourceforge alone 250,000 times.