Legacy versions

History and source code of previous versions of the game.

Version 1

The original prototype, written by Isaac Lewis. Source code was never published, we only know it was using PHP & MySQL.

Version 2

The first open source version, also written by Isaac Lewis. Used Ruby and MySQL.

• Original implementation
• Fork by Hexagon (exact copy of original)
• Fork by Miko (based on original, various changes)
• Fork by Sustan (outdated copy of Miko’s fork)
• Fork by Buttercup (based on Miko’s fork, various changes)
• Fork by Val (outdated copy of Buttercup’s fork)
• Fork by Juraz (exact copy of Buttercup’s fork)
• Fork by wjherron (exact copy of Buttercup’s fork)
• Fork by PeteKeller (based on Buttercup’s fork, no changes except renaming the game to “Iceage”)
• Fork by anthoroe (based on Buttercup’s fork, a science fiction game named “Light Rising”, based on Shintolin engine but with completely customized game data/content, “thousands of changes to the code over five years”)
• Fork by Ben Sharpe (based on Buttercup’s fork, “cleanup project for the exercise”)

Version 3

The third version, re-implemented for a different infrastructure by Troy Goode (known in-game as Ecce). Uses NodeJS and MongoDB.

• Original implementation
• fork by nlndz (outdated copy of original)
• Fork by Victor Ling (a.k.a. Ionshard) (based on original, a few bug fixes)
• Fork by pillbox (based on original, updates developer config and instructions)
• Fork by Juraz (based on Pillbox’s fork, modifies hunger mechanics)

Version 4

An unfinished prototype by Troy Goode. Uses NodeJS and PostgreSQL.

• Game prototype
• Database importer (v3 => v4)

Local backup

All the versions are added to this repository as submodules. You can download their source code by using this command: git submodule update --init

Mirrors

This repository is published to multiple core-sharing portals:

• GitHub (main mirror)
• GitLab
• Bitbucket
• Codeberg
• Disroot