The Battle for Wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures... more »
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News
Wesnoth Summer Art Scholarship
Wednesday, July 1 2009
In response to the generosity of our community, Wesnoth has set aside donated funds to create an art scholarship. Our intent is patterned after Google's "Summer of Code"; it allows a student to spend their summer in an internship, creating art for Wesnoth, rather than a typical summer job which has little to do with their academic interests. Not only is this an aid to ourselves and the participating students, but we hope that it will serve as an inspirational example to the FLOSS gaming community at large.
We solicited applications from our community, and are now happy to announce the two winning candidates for our Scholarship. The winning proposals were submitted by Kathrin "kitty" Polikeit, and Phil "thespaceinvader" Barber. We would like to extend our thanks to everyone who submitted proposals.
To read more, visit this page in our wiki, or this thread in our forum.
Wesnoth 1.7.1: Development Release
Monday, June 29 2009
A new Development release is ready. This is the second release in the rather new 1.7.x tree. Since you don't read what I write here anyway, better have a look at this forum thread if you want to learn something about the new 1.7.1 release.
As with the last releases, we continue to offer two versions of changelogs: a rather nice to read players changelog that only includes changes every player will probably notice and the (rather) complete changelog with (almost) all the details, which is likely to cause a serious headache...
At the moment the Windows package and the MacOSX packages are ready. You can find them at the download page. Once the others are done you can find them at the download page, too. Please keep in mind that it is a development release which might include quite many bugs. If you find one, report it.
Wesnoth 1.6.3: Maintenance Release
Tuesday, June 23 2009
Wesnoth 1.6.3 has been released. This is a bugfix release for the stable 1.6 branch. Translations were updated, bugs were fixed and stability was improved. Feel free to celebrate the new release with us in this forum thread.
As with the last releases, we continue to offer two versions of changelogs: a rather nice to read players changelog that only includes changes every player will probably notice and the (rather) complete changelog with (almost) all the details, which is likely to cause a serious headache...
At the moment the Windows, the MacOSX as well as the Debian and Gentoo packages are ready. You can find them at the download page. Once the others are done you can find them at the download page, too. If you find a bug, please report it.