check this out
http://www.birth-of-the-empires.de

they developed a new botf and released an alpha version of the game
a few features are not in their but will follow soon i think
so guys download it give them feedback about bugs and so on and perhaps we get a real new botf in short time

Yes I know that we allready share ressources (race descrition a.s.o.) but the post from Matress seemed to bee a little bit unfriendly. I mean hey, we are all waiting for a new BOTF and we should be glad about every projekt. So let`s work togehtther and help each other to get a really good new game an not misstrust each other

MOE................BEEN NAUGHTY...........................MOE...............BE RUDE................... id otn think so im gussing some1 missunderstood him

MOE isnt a mean guy and he deff would not have said anyhting like that i know when you read it it might sound abit bad but to be honest i know him for a while and he done have a mean bone in that whole wlesh body of his but it be ok coz im sure he didnt mean it

Can ya download and eglish verson or will the game only be in German (or whatever language ) coz im limted to numbers and hund in german lmao

But looks very nice and very well done alot of hard work and carnt wait to play it

even if i dont understand what im doing lol then gaain i wouldnt if it was in english lol

I cant find a link still. Can someone please post the direct link here please.

Skeeter, are you registered and logged into the forum? That could be your problem. The topic is .

Meh you mean they force you to register to download it. Nah think ill pass thanks.

Woah woah woah!

Rautzebautze, i'm sorry if my post sounded rude to you, but I certainly didn't intend it to be that way.

MStrobel is correct in his interpretation - all i've seen of your game is the screenshots; I haven't downloaded anything or read the posts in your forums because they aren't in English. I don't speak a word of German (Even though I did it for a year in school ) so it's a little difficult to keep up-to-date with what is going on on your forums.

I'll try to explain what I meant a bit better for you though. What I was trying to say, is that (From my point of view) you didn't have any programming, interfaces, etc. complete...so I didn't understand where you had got your screenshots from.

In my opinion, a screenshot means a picture that has been taken from a working program - even if it is incomplete/has unresolved bugs in it - to show others the progress that has been made on said program.

So - from my point of view - your screenshots couldn't possibly be "real", as your project had only just started when the screenshots were posted. Now this may simply be because my sense of your time scale is wrong, or some other misunderstanding, but anyways, this is what I meant by "not trusting your project".

I was in no way trying to put your or your game down, and I hope you accept my sincerest apologies for this misunderstanding.

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On the point of the "release" of our own game, there are mitigating circumstances. The original programmer left due to personal reasons, so the game was put on hold.

During this time, another member of the team - Jigalypuff - stepped forward and agreed to make his own game. He has put his name, time, and money into this project, and has been working hard for the last eight months. But that is only eight months. I'm sure you can appreciate that a project of this manner cannot be done by a single person in such a short amount of time, especially since he can only do it in his free time; he isn't doing this because it is his job.

He also had to start programming from scratch. The original programmer did not leave any contact details or any copies of the existing programming for Jig to continue working from. Because of all these points, it really wouldn't be fair to expect any thing to have been released - yet.

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As for nothing having been released though, you are sorely mistaken. There are some small examples of the games progress available for download in the downloads section of the forums, and various threads have links to other downloads as well.

I also have some programs that have been given to me for testing purposes as well. Ok, these haven't been released to the general public, but I can assure you that I do have them.

If you want, i'll post some screenshots of these programs for you to have a look at - and you'll be able to post your own messages of distrust in me, should you still feel that way.

You'll have to trust me when I say that my skills with computer art are virtually non-existant though; there's no need for you to worry about me making fake images. The little Romulan in my avatar wasn't even made by me, it was made by Jigalypuff as a joke once. I simply animated it.

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As for my post count, that's mainly because I'm a bit too obsessed with the game and have too much time on my hands.

I also understand that your forums aren't as popular as these ones and you are recieving less feedback, but feel welcome to ask for feedback in these forums.

We're all BOTF fans, and the success of a project - ANY project - matters to us all.

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As a show of peace, i've uploaded a copy of the random events in their current form to a file hoster. They aren't complete, but they're something. Feel free to use them for your own project if you want, but you'll have to translate them yourself, sorry.

The random events are obviously being written by me, but they are based on the original list by OmniQ, which can be found Additional input and ideas have been made by Dafedz as well, and OmniQ has now returned from his long absence and is also actively writing random event messages.

Everyone, please feel free to download them, as i'm interested in any feedback that people can give...especially for the V'Ger random event...

I've already sent the random events to a few select people, but if they're reading this, i'd urge them to download this version, as it's the latest one.

OMG what a Post, I`ll reply to it tomorrow^^

Well, I downloaded it and I would play it immediately, but there's no .exe file for me to execute the game...anyone else tried this?

The EXE is a separate download. I believe it is attached to the announcement post .

i could see there bing a section on the forum for htis but to be honest the forum is is already split into quite a few sections so if ur a newbi you dont know were the hell to go lol so adding another one might not work and mergeing the projects yea help is brillent but there nearly done with there project while ours is still in delpoement so they wouldnt gain much from us i guss

should thye require a server for their game with unlimitrd bandwidth we will happily host the game for them, if they would like a forum set up here then i`ll do it, any botf2 projects are more than welcome on this site, and congrats guys for getting there, now add some 3d combat for me lol.

I just played this game and found that it runs perfectly, there isnt much in it though. Im not keen on the music either! Although im a bit limited by my poor German, the game interface is easy enough to use. It does not look as polished as Mstrobels galaxy generator but it looks promising, the star images in the game look familiar to:)

Looking good, I hope the work continues!

for the little time i tried it, it seems pretty nice
still a bit limited but i like it
in the beginning the german therms are bit puzzling to me, but i'll get there