Spring: 1944 est un jeu opensource de stratégie en temps réellequi prend place durant la dernière année de la Seconde guerre mondiale. Un croisement entre Company of Heroes et Supreme Commander, dessiné par quelqu'un qui ne jouer ni à l'un ni à l'autre.
Originally begun in 2002 as a single-unit modification for Total Annihilation called Axis & Allies TA, the game has since grown well beyond its original plans. The mod was completed in August of 2005, with the main dev at that point (M_26_7 / SpikedHelmet) deciding it was time to move on. Not long after, an early version of the Spring engine was released — an engine designed to run content from Total Annihilation, and Axis & Allies TA was soon ported by a fan, and then by FLOZi in November of 2005. The port was then released in December 2006 with a few bits of new content (mostly infantry models) and updated game play elements.
After that release, AATA was reborn as Spring: 1944 – a complete re-build from scratch, using all-new content and a new design philosophy. While our release schedule has been a tad on the erratic side, work has been progressing continuously ever since 2006, with published builds going out approximately once or twice a year. The game reached a nearly completed state between 2010-2011, and most of the work since that point has focused on balance, a handful of new gameplay mechanics, cleaning up the game’s internals and smoothing out the experience for new players.
Fight massive battles on land, sea and air with hundreds of different units and buildings, with one of the 8 already available factions . Les fonctionnalités uniques des différentes factions, le nombre important d'unités potentiellement, et la grande variété de théâtres de combat disponibles, rendent chaque bataille différente.
Les choses peuvent vite changer sur le champ de bataille !
Spring:1944 est base sur l'excellent moteur de jeu Spring RTS. Cependant, l'API LUA a permis d'améliorer le jeu sur différents plans au niveau du graphisme. En voici une liste non-exhaustive :
Une telle collection de graphismes pourra vous aider à miex vous immerger dans l'univers de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la guerre qui a le plus ravagé les êtres humains.
Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur comment activer ces améliorations graphiques dans la documentation (en anglais).