The big moment has arrived guys! After all these years FreeCol has just delivered it’s big version 1.0.0 release!
Here’s what lead dev Stian had to say about it:
“On this very day, 20 years ago, we made the first public release of FreeCol. Our releases have until now been marked as alpha/beta even though the number of downloads for our game has long been counted in the millions. We are extremely proud to finally announce FreeCol 1.0.0!”
There’s been a huge amount of changes since the last stable release which people can check out a list of on the FreeCol Sourceforge page here:
sourceforge.net/projects/freecol/files/freecol/freecol-1.0.0/
And of course people can download the new release from here:
www.indiedb.com/games/freecol/downloads/freecol-100-windows-installer-02-jan-2023
If you would like to contribute to the FreeCol project please visit our forums for more information:
sourceforge.net/p/freecol/discussion/719661/thread/2d0063a3bc/
Or by our subchannel on the Col Fans Discord:
discord.gg/CHcH75s
If you’ve never seen or played FreeCol then a year ago I released a HD video tour of the game showing off most of it’s coolest features. Many changes have been made since and the latest game actually looks and feels quite a bit different now due to all the new music, animating oceans, new terrain, and GUI!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSfj_G4kA9g&list=PLZqnaGtTZxFbq3F5R6lqzyVvYzg9tRBPY
Source: Indie DB