A very similar copy of the following text has been posted to the gotmono.com forum: http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=news;action=display;num=1203656378;start=0
FreeTrain is a game by Kohsuke Kawaguchi, written in C# using Microsoft's .NET platform. It is inspired by the A-Train series of games which focuses on a combination of train and business simulation. FreeTrain is the quintessential sandbox game. First of all, you start in a literal sandbox: a flat barren piece of land greets you when starting a new game. After that, it's completely up to you to create your world, including natural features such as mountains or lakes. Last year Free Gamer got a few guys to translate FreeTrain from Japanese (it had been entirely Japanese until then) to English so it could be enjoyed by a more global audience. However it is still dependent on Windows and .NET and can not be run on Mono or Linux. Homepage: http://freetrain.sourceforge.net Screenshots: http://freetrain.freeforums.org/freetrain-screenshots-t5.html http://www.kohsuke.org/freetrain/screenshots/index.html http://homepage1.nifty.com/Ferrari/map/newpage1.htm (this one is huge - looks ace) Forums: http://freetrain.freeforums.org/ FreeTrain (original Japanese) homepage: http://www.kohsuke.org/freetrain/ Basically the game is no longer developed by it's original Japanese author, and the guys who translated the game are not well versed in C#/Mono and have struggled to port it: http://freetrain.freeforums.org/16aug2007-sdl-screenshot-t88.html It would be great if somebody from the Mono community who was looking to bring over a really great Free Software project from .NET to Mono could check it out and give advice or even dig in. Otherwise I'm afraid this amazing game will never get ported to Mono and Linux. Thanks for your time, please bear in mind (if you respond) that I am not subscribed to this list. - Charlie -- Free Gamer - free & open source games list & commentary http://freegamer.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
