Warsow (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Warsow Team |
| Publisher(s) | Chasseur de Bots |
| Engine | Qfusion |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Release | July 28, 2012 (version 1.0) June 8, 2014 (version 1.51) November 30, 2015 (version 2.0) March 28, 2016 (version 2.1) |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Warsow, also stylized as War§ow, is an open source first-person shooter video game.
Warsow was first publicly released on June 8, 2005 as an alpha version. The stable version 1.0 was released on July 28, 2012 after 7 years of development.
Warsow's codebase is free and open source software, distributed under the terms of the GPL; it is built upon Qfusion, an advanced modification of the Quake II engine. The artwork and other media were originally licensed under the proprietary Warsow Content License, which allowed the contributors of this media to use the work in a "personal portfolio" but not in any other game, but have around 2012 released under the Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
Warsow is loosely based on the E-novel Chasseur de bots by Fabrice Demurger. The novel is the basis of the game's cyberpunk visual style, which is achieved by combining cel-shaded cartoon-like graphics with dark, flashy and dirty textures. Since visual clarity is important in maintaining competitive gameplay, Warsow tries to keep effects minimalistic, clear and visible.
On October 18, 2012, the game was released on GOG.com.Warsow was submitted to Steam Greenlight on February 9, 2013, and was greenlit on September 18.
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