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Spring: 1944

Spring: 1944 Development Team | Released Jan 28, 2009

Spring:1944 is a free WWII RTS based on the open source Spring Engine. Legions of infantry, tanks, artillery guns and more await your command. Take up arms under the Stars & Stripes, Iron Cross, Hammer & Sickle, or Union Jack, then command your troops to brutal victory. Hundreds of units, custom maps, deep and fast-paced RTS play. The scale? Epic. The gameplay? Intense. The cost? Zero - Spring: 1944 is not a "mod" of a commercial game, but a development of an open-source engine.

Report article First beta release shipped

Our first proper beta is now out and available for general testing. It is a 'lite' build in terms of units, but fully playable and lots of fun. Give it a shot and leave us some feedback on our forums!

Posted by NemoNobody on Dec 27th, 2007 digg this super bookmark

Well, we've shipped out the first "release." I'm putting "release" in quotes because this is not something we're making a big marketing push for - it's just a beta (that is - UNFINISHED! >_>) with a cut down set of units (all the units we've finished so far - close to 130). Gameplay may still change drastically in later versions as we revise our original set of ideas and add more and more units, but we found this version fun to play and wanted to get something out to the world at large so people know we're not vaporware with pretty screens. Speaking of pretty screens...

German PanzerIV tanks and StuGIII assault guns firing at Russian T-34 tanks

German troops assaulting soviet position

Sorry. Pretty screens can be so distracting. Anyways, yeah - we have a release, it is available on the downloads page (either on our ModDB profile, or on our website). Hope you all enjoy it, we're certainly enjoying the process of making it.

Please post any bugs/suggestions/feedback on our forums at:

Spring1944.com

Have fun!

Note: PLEASE do not start distributing this in any major way. There has been talk of including with linux distros or some other awesome things, but now is not yet the time, so please contact the team (via our forums) before advertising or marketing the game beyond giving the link to a few friends. That said, feel free to spread it informally and we hope you enjoy the game enough to not be disgusted by the rough patches (which we are working hard to improve).