This is the game engine source code repository.

ZetaGlest is a fork of MegaGlest, a libre software cross platform real-time strategy game.

ZetaGlest is an entertaining free (freeware and free software) and open source cross-platform 3D real-time strategy (RTS) game, where you control the armies of one of seven different factions: Tech, Magic, Egypt, Indians, Norsemen, Persian or Romans. The game is played in one of 17 naturally looking settings, which, like the unit models, are crafted with great attention to detail. A lot of additional game data can be downloaded from within the game at no cost.

Download executable files

No binary packages of the ZetaGlest fork have been released yet. If you have no desire to compile software and would only like a binary (executable), we suggest trying the MegaGlest game; binary package downloads for various operating systems are available on their web site.

To Build (Compile) and Run

Try the game without contributing

Use this command:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/ZetaGlest/zetaglest-source.git

Afterward, to build, change to the mk/ directory, select your operating system and run

./build-mg.sh

Contributing and Testing

If you would like to contribute to development, you will need to fork and clone these 3 repositories:

mkdir ZetaGlest
git clone https://github.com/ZetaGlest/zetaglest-source
git clone https://github.com/ZetaGlest/zetaglest-data
git clone https://github.com/ZetaGlest/zetaglest-masterserver

Afterward, to build, change to the zetaglest-source/mk/ directory, and run:

./build-mg.sh

To run the game, you will need to specify the data path:

./megaglest --data-path=<path to data repository>zetaglest-data/

If you don't provide the data path, you will receive an error message when the game starts.

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for extended, important instructions and guidelines for contributing.

Contact

• IRC: Freenode/#zetaglest-dev
• email: andy400-dev@yahoo.com