= About Orxonox =

 * Development Status: Alpha
 * Environment: X11, OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, QT
 * Intended Audience: Gamers
 * Licence: GNU General Public Licence (GPL)
 * Natural Language: English
 * Operating System: Linux (primary), Windows (sec), MacOS X
 * Programming Language: C++ OOP

== The Story ==

The year is 2102. The universe is still expanding, stars and galaxies adorn the skies of the planets all over the universe. Supernovas send their exploding flashes through the infinite wideness. Black holes suck in beams of light and the sun of the solar system is still shining down on Earth and Mars. But it's not like nothing has changed. [wiki:ConceptPaper read more]

== The Engine ==

Even though this is not usual anymore today, we started this project by programming our own game engine. We did this because we wanted to understand how games work. We are now proud to say, that Orxonox has a working game engine, that does not need to fear a comparison with the todays open source game engines on the web.

You can read more about the engine features [wiki:EngineFeatures here].

== History ==
Orxonox is an open source project that started in february 2004. At the moment we are about 15 active developers manly from the [http://www.ethz.ch/ ETH Zurich] and other nearby universities. Our goal is to create a funny and exciting 3D action game. Infact Orxonox shall become the most furious 3D action game the open source game community has ever seen!

Until now there is no official release of Orxonox. 

== Education ==

Orxonox is also a part of the optional bachelor course program at the [http://www.ee.ethz.ch/ ETHZ ITET departement] in form of a [http://www.ee.ethz.ch/studium/studenten/bachelorstudium/pps_EN PPS]: Every semester about 14 new students learn how to work on Orxonox using open source tools. Here you can see the [https://dev.orxonox.net/wiki/PPS_main cource program] of the last semesters.

== Contact ==

Email, mailing list, forum ... '''TODO'''

== Credits ==

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