Hi,

I spent some nice time with this game, and I'm considering packaging it for Debian (I'm part of the Games Team).

Can you tell me a bit more about the license? Did the original developers release all the data under the GPL?

Cheers!

Ping? :)

Hi,

I'm terribly sorry for responding this late, but somehow I haven't noticed your post… (I must have missed the e-mail notification about it).

The original developers agreed for me to release the data under the GPL as a part of the conversion. If this is necessary, I can ask Paweł Matusz, who is the programmer of the original version, to confirm that.

Hey,

Interestingly I went ahead and started packaging a couple weeks ago:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578703
http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-packages?action=details;package=cytadela

It will be reviewed by a Debian developer, and then by the Debian FTP masters - at which point they may request more information on the licensing, but for now the information on the website are enough :)

Hi,

I'm asked by the Debian FTP masters if the game data can be edited/modified.

I know about fareditor for .far, I don't know about tools for .cmf and .3dg.
Is there any?

Thanks!

I've generated the .cmf and .3dg files from original game's map files. I wrote a converter for that  - I will publish it in a few moments on SF.net.

There are no tools to edit those files once they are generated, but I think it won't be to hard to write an editor using the available code. The game contains a code for reading the files, and the converter - for writing them (however, the converter's write code is a lot older than the game's read code, so it would have to be modified before it can interact with the read code within a single application).

At last Cytadela is available in Debian!
http://packages.debian.org/sid/cytadela
It's currently in the contrib area because there's currently no way to edit the levels.

Great thanks for packaging the game for Debian