/SuperNova

oGame-like browser sci-fi space strategy

Primary LanguagePHP

We Want YOU!
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SuperNova need YOU! We need maintainers  for  localizations.  Any  language  is
fine! Currently we need maintainer for English locale to check and  fix  it  as
base for other non-Russian speaker users!

Project "SuperNova.WS"
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"SuperNova.WS" (shortly SN) is  a  massive  multiplayer  online  browser  space
strategy game (like oGame). SN is a very heavily modified XNova RageRepack v226

SN written on PHP. It require MySQL-server for work

SN developed under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2,  June  1991.  You  can
read it in /docs/license.txt (English). Also there is  additional  restrictions:
1. You can not remove or change any copyright notices from any part of  SN.  If
you wish to use any part of code in your development you should  also  add  all
copyright notices
2. You absolutly can not sell SN-based product without my  special  permission.
If you want to sell such product - contact me

Currently SN supports Russian and English languages


Disclaimer
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WARNING! Project status is "Alpha"! It means  that  any  update  can  seriously
change any aspect of gameplay!  Also  it  means  that  there  may  be  lack  of
documentation, no user-friendly installer. Also it means  that  any  user  that
want to use this code should have some knowledge about  configuring  web-server
with PHP  and  MySQL  and  have  knowledge  about  installing  and  configuring
PHP-scripts. However code is pretty stable and has "beta"-quality.

WARNING! SN PROVIDED "AS-IS" WITH NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED WARRANTY AT ALL!

WARNING! MANY ASPECTS OF GAMEPLAY AND ALGORYTHMS DIFFERS  FROM  OGAME  OFFICIAL
SERVERS! IT'S NOT A BUG - IT WAS MADE  INTENTIONALLY!  DO  NOT  COMPLY  IF  YOU
ENCOUNTER SUCH DIFFERENCE! Some notes about SN future development can  be  read
in /docs/todo.txt (Russian)


Web-resources
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Main Hub For Your SuperNova Experience
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Russian Version
  http://supernova.ws/index.htm
English Version
  http://supernova.ws/index-en.htm

GitHub
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You encouraged to use GitHub as main source for SN releases and builds

SN on GitHub:
  http://github.com/supernova-ws/SuperNova

GIT-repository:
  git://github.com/supernova-ws/SuperNova.git

GIT-repository through HTTP:
  https://github.com/supernova-ws/SuperNova#

Latest stable release:
  https://github.com/supernova-ws/SuperNova/zipball/master

Latest night build (stability is not guaranted!):
  https://github.com/supernova-ws/SuperNova/zipball/trunk

SVN-interface (SVN-interface on GitHub works is very unstable):
  http://svn.github.com/supernova-ws/SuperNova.git

There are 3 branches on GitHub repository
"master" contains last stable version.
"trunk" contains most recent and feature-rich code. Here can be some minor bugs
"test"  contains  developer  snapshot.   It   can   be   partially   or   fully
non-functional.  Hovewer  here  you  can  see  currently  developing  features.

SourceForge
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GIT-repository on SourceForge:
  git://supernova-ws.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/supernova-ws/supernova-ws

Release archives:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/supernova-ws/files/releases/

DIFFs
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/supernova-ws/files/diffs/

Patches (archive of differences between indicated versions)
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/supernova-ws/files/patches/

Support
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Forum (Russian and English):
  http://forum.supernova.ws/viewforum.php?f=73

Live Demo Universes
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SuperNova (x1):
  http://supernova.ws

oGame (x2):
  http://ogame.supernova.ws

Beta (x50):
  http://beta.supernova.ws

Documentation
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All documentation located in folder "docs".

License (English):
  /docs/license.txt

Project documentation (Russian):
  /docs/readme.txt

User-level changelog (Russian):
  /docs/changelog.txt

Installation instructions (Russian):
  /docs/install.txt
Installation instructions (English, google-translated):
  /docs/install-en.txt


Documentation for developers & administrators (Russian):
  /docs/html/developer.html

Changelog for developers & administrators (Russian):
  /docs/changelog_dev.txt

Plans for further development (Russian):
  /docs/todo.txt

Coding Gudelines for developers (English):
  /docs/html/coding-guidelines.html

Bellitrized game background (Russian):
  /docs/SuperNova - All you didn't want to know but forced to.docx


Copyright notice
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СуперНова copyright (c) 2009-2013 Gorlum для http://supernova.ws
Project "SuperNova.WS" copyright (c) 2009-2013 by Gorlum for http://supernova.ws