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History is a list of historical events in the free gaming community organized by years, then by months.

Information that could be included in here are possibly release date, contests that took place, when projects are started, and possibly more.

Contents 1 1992 2 1993 2.1 June 3 1995 3.1 November 4 2000 4.1 January 4.2 October 5 2003 5.1 January 5.2 June 5.3 August 6 2004 6.1 March 6.2 June 6.3 December 7 2005 7.1 August 8 2006 8.1 March 8.2 May 8.3 June 8.4 September 9 2007 9.1 April 9.2 August 9.3 September 9.4 November 9.5 December 10 2008 10.1 February 10.2 March 10.3 June 11 References

[edit] 1992

• In 1992, Chris Schoeneman released the first version of the game BZFlag. ^[1]

[edit] 1993

[edit] June

• The first known release of the game Crossfire dates back to June 20, 1993 as a clone of Gruntlet.^[2]

[edit] 1995

[edit] November

• The Freeciv project was started on November, 15, 1995 by three computer science students.^[3]

[edit] 2000

[edit] January

• On January 10, 2000, the GGZ Gaming Zone project was founded.^[4]

[edit] October

• In October 2000, the Pygame project was started by Pete Shinners.^[5]

[edit] 2003

[edit] January

• On January 23, 2003, the first version of Secret Maryo Chronicles was released.^[6]

[edit] June

• Dave White started the Wesnoth project.^[7]

[edit] August

• The first known release of Wesnoth is version 0.3.4 on August 15, 2003.^[8]

[edit] 2004

[edit] March

• GoTH game development team worked on their first project, SuperTux in March 2004.^[9]

[edit] June

• Tyler Olsen started the Allacrost project. ^[10]

[edit] December

• On December 6, 2004, Warzone 2100 is released to the public, licensed under the GNU General Public License, by Eidos Interactive.^[11]

[edit] 2005

[edit] August

• The first Pyweek contest took place.^[12]

[edit] 2006

[edit] March

• The second Pyweek contest took place. It ran March 26 through April 2 of 2006. It is also the first Pyweek contest to run on its own domain and server, pyweek.org.^[13]

[edit] May

• Charles Goodwin started the Free Gamer blog on May 25, 2006.^[14]

[edit] June

• The Pygame.draw ran from June 11, 2006 to June 25, 2006.^[15]

[edit] September

• The third Pyweek contest took place. It ran September 3 through September 10 of 2006. The theme of the contest was "The Disappearing Act".^[16]

[edit] 2007

[edit] April

• The springtime PyWeek contest, PyWeek 4 took place April 1, 2007 through April 8, 2007.^[17]

[edit] August

• On August 25, version 0.7.0 of Pingus was released.^[18]

[edit] September

• Through September 2 to September 9, the Pyweek 5 contest ran.^[19]

[edit] November

• On November 5, 2007, the first official version of Project Alexandria, the first game by Sixth Floor Labs is released.^[20]

[edit] December

• On December 18, 2007, LD10 ran
• On December 17, 2007, version 1.0.0 of FlightGear is released.^[21]

[edit] 2008

[edit] February

• On February 9^th, Sixth Floor Labs announced that the company is shut down.^[22]

[edit] March

• PyWeek 6 took place from March 30^th to April 6^th.^[23]

[edit] June

• On June 13^th, 2008, the first RubyWeekend game programming competition started. It ended on June 16^th, 2008.^[24]

[edit] References

1. ↑ early BZFlag history as told by Chris Schoeneman
2. ↑ historic directory for Crossfire
3. ↑ Freeciv wiki's timeline about the evolution of Civilization-like games
4. ↑ Historical account of the GGZ of the project
5. ↑ Historical account by Pete Shinners in an introduction to pygame article
6. ↑ Secret Maryo Chronicles' history page
7. ↑ The document say December 18th marks six month since the development of Wesnoth started
8. ↑ An early version of the Wesnoth site
9. ↑ [http://happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1240 Game of the Month thread for SuperTux
10. ↑ Oslen's homepage contain information on project's birth
11. ↑ wz2100 contains historical information about when it was freed
12. ↑ Pyweek 1 on mechanicalcat.net
13. ↑ Pyweek 2 on pyweek.org
14. ↑ The first post
15. ↑ The Pygame.draw challenge page
16. ↑ Pyweek 3
17. ↑ Pyweek 4
18. ↑ http://pingus.seul.org/news.html
19. ↑ The Pyweek 5 homepage
20. ↑ Sixth Floor Labs' news post for Project Alexandria
21. ↑ download page for the source code
22. ↑ Announcement of company closure
23. ↑ PyWeek 6 page
24. ↑ RubyWeekend contest details