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      <item date="10. Jul 2003">
        Aleona CVS is now ready, it currently contains all of FcMP,
        all stuff that doesn't belong there will get deleted soon.
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      <item date="10. Jul 2003">
        A proposal on how to continue and start developing Aleona's
        Tales as bean posted to the <a
          href="http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aleona-devel">Aleona-Devel</a>
        mailing list, you can read the proposal <a
          href="http://mail.nongnu.org/archive/html/aleona-devel/2003-07/msg00002.html">here</a> or <a href="http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/proposal.txt">here</a>.
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    <p>
      Aleona's Tales is a classic Real Time Stratagy game where you
      train large armies, build bases and fight huge battels against
      numerous opponents. Aleona's Tales is set in a uniq fantasy
      world and focuses around the stories in the ancient world
      Aleona, where all the games take place. Aleona's Tales will be
      divided into numerous chapters and subgames, where each should
      relativly self standing, while building a larger story around
      them. This division into subgames should ensure that playable
      version can get out in a reasonable timeframe without having
      players to wait forever until the 'large big thing' is ready.
      Both single player and multiplayer games will be provided.
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    <p>
      Beside the goal to provide playable games and a surrounding
      story, Aleona's Tales also provides a huge repository of
      graphics, sound and music which can be used by other projects.
      The huge number of graphics is a remainder of the FcMP project
      from which Aleona's Tales has forked and which is now dead.
      Since the Aleona project will most likly not use all of the
      graphics which we currently have, it shouldn't be a problem if
      other projects make use of them.
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    <p>
      Aleona's Tales is Free Software and covered under the <a
      href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU GPL</a>.
      Aleona's Tales uses <a
      href="http://www.nongnu.org/stratagus/">Stratagus</a> as its
      underlying engine, which is already nearly fully up and running
      at this point, so that the Aleona project itself can focus on
      providing content mostly.
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