Realm of Empires launched in Friday June 13 2008, to a world of gamers eager for good quality independent games. Now in 2024, the world is over saturated with online games of all kind! Yet, Realm of Empires continues to enjoy a loyal following of die hard fans, and pure-strategy bad-asses!
The one constant request we had from the player community, is for the community to be able to design realms as they see fit. We have tried to deliver this in a number of ways, with the latest feature allowing a design custom realms in 2019.
After much deliberation, the only natural step forward, is to open source the engine!
Anyone tech savvy, can now download the code, run the game and adjust it as you like it.
The engine can also be used to launch a brand new type of game, and the open source code includes an (incomplete) "StarWars" theme that demonstrates this ability.
You can use the engine to experiment, launch non-for-profit projects, even run commercial games. All that we ask in return, is that any changes to the code, are offered back to the open source community.
The project comes with a simple HOW-TO but we can expand it at your request to show off the full configurability of the engine.
