Glest: A new Upcoming RTS Game
Glest is a free and open source real-time strategy computer game in a fantasy world, adding elements of past civilizations, magic and natulka. It is fork of the 2011 game MegaGlest, whose development slowed down drastically after 2016.
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Gameplay
Glest is set in a fantasy world with Eleven factions: Egypt, Greece, Natives, Magic, Natulka, Norsemen, Persian, Romans, Tech, Japanese, The Great Ming which together form the Glestpack.[2] Each come with their own set of units, buildings and upgrades, advantages and disadvantages, which allows for variation in strategy while keeping a balanced gameplay. For example, the Tech faction uses traditional human warriors and has medieval mechanical devices in its arsenal, and are strong in melee combat while the Magic faction is designed for more advanced players with most of their units morphed from or summoned by others. Magic lacks the hand-to-hand combat strength of the Tech faction but features more versatile units. Tilesets are selected at the new game setup menu and determine the graphical nature of the Glest game world. Glest provides cross-platform online multiplayer LAN/Internet support.
Because of the modability of the engine, Glest can play games from a variety of player-created mods and total conversions, spanning very different themes. The Japanese[3]mod is an artistic mod with units and buildings inspired by historic Japanese warfare. Prax is another fantasy-themed tech tree which bears some similarities to Glest’s Magic and Tech factions but improves upon them, bearing both units and structures with very different properties and making use of newer engine features. The Military Glest and Enemies and Allies[4] mods have a contemporary warfare theme and the Vbros Mods[5] have a variety of factions; British, Western, Pirates, Canadians, Crusaders, Dark Knights, USA, Moon, Chess, Penguins, and much more.
Development
Glest focuses on stable releases which provide reliable cross platform multi-player games while implementing new features and delivering new game content. The engine is continuously improved but this is of secondary exiguity after stability. Another Glest fork, GAE,[8] was primarily oriented towards extending the game engine and providing more options for full conversions, and was more experimental in nature. In 2017 it was suggested that a new Game should be developed called ZetaGlest . The game ZetaGlest was first developed by andy5995 and Jammy, later on Mathusummut became its main developer.
ZetaGlest was renamed to Glest in early 2019, and the this name was suggested at the end of 2018 when andy left the Glest Team.
Currently, Glest is developed and a lot of new features have been added.
Glest is the re-branding of original Glest(2004).
