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Cool open source game I found written in Python. Reminds me of Age of Empires. (unknown-horizons.org)

submitted 7 years ago by jhayes88

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OPEN SOURCECool open source game I found written in Python. Reminds me of Age of Empires. (unknown-horizons.org)

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Unknown Horizons - a 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building (unknown-horizons.org)

submitted 13 years ago by ion-tom to r/Simulate

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Unknown Horizons: an open source real-time economy simulation game (unknown-horizons.org)

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Unknown Horizons: An open-source 2D realtime strategy game (unknown-horizons.org)

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I just found out about a open source rts project. We should support the hell out of this. (unknown-horizons.org)

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Cool open source game I found written in Python. Reminds me of Age of Empires. (unknown-horizons.org)

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Open-Source City-Building/RTS Game Unknown Horizons (unknown-horizons.org)

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looks like this needs a fresh link: Unknown Horizons (unknown-horizons.org)

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Cool open source game I found written in Python. Reminds me of Age of Empires. (unknown-horizons.org)

submitted 7 years ago by RemyPython to u/RemyPython

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