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Piga Software Logo under the GFDL

"Free as in Freedom, Free as in Price"

Welcome to the website of Piga Software, we are a group of programmers dedicated to the creation of software for the GNU/Linux platform that is free and open source under the GNU General Public License version 3.0, We are particularly interested in producing games, especially historical games, first person shooters, and strategy games for GNU/Linux. If you wish us to make a specific kind of software for you email us at request@piga.yoll.net, however do not expect us to be punctual as currently there are only two of us! All requesters note that we will only develop free software under the GPL 3.0, we also will most likely not take requests for the Windows platform. All requests may not be taken. If so and E-mail will be sent telling you why we can not work on this right now or why we will not. Request may later be followed up on.

Key Projects

Free Empires is our star project. Its goal is write a Free Software reversed engineered equivalent of Microsoft's and Ensemble Studios: Age of Empires, that works on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows. Two Source Releases (SRs) are available however the upcoming SR 3.0.0 is to be the grandest yet and to be using an engine powered by SDL instead of the previously QT rendered engine. Download Free Empires: Chief and Warriors SR 2.0.0. Tested on Fedora 7, SR 1.0.0 tested on Fedora "Core" versions 4 and 7 as well as Ubuntu 7.04.

Donut Quest, a game we produced under the request of the Brogo web comic, play as the Brogo character Ed Donut as he battles spiders and eats Donuts. Graphics, Sounds, and Music courtesy of Malcolm Wilson Multimedia. Donut Quest works on Windows 95 and above and has not been tested on Windows Vista. Donut Quest has been ran in WINE under Fedora 7 and worked perfectly besides not playing the MIDI music files. We are now working on Donut Quest version 1.5 which will fix bugs, add features, and help those WINEing it, as well as upgrading to GPL 3.0. Download Version 1.0.0 Here!

Other Projects: Inferno (Includes Rebirth) First Person Shooter Project, Linfarm farm simulation/strategy game, The Hammer Programming tools, Wilson Net Web Browser, Piga Nation Historical Simulation Game, Piga Windows Entertainment Pack, and Gambas Adventure Engine.

The three domains of Piga

1. Website (This page)
2. Wiki (Piggypedia)
3. Community Forum

Source Releases and Compiled Releases

In projects such as Free Empires Piga organizes its releases it releases in two category's: Source Releases (SR) and Compiled Releases (CR). Source Releases are just the bare GAMBAS project file. Compiled Releases are finished programs, and come as standalone executable, Fedora RPM, Mandriva RPM, Suse RPM, and Debian DEBs.

Piga Members

1. Hamish Paul Wilson (HamishPiga on the Forum): Benevolent Dictator for Life, programmer, artist, Wiki moderator, forum moderator and documenter.
2. Graham Lawrence Wilson (Graham on the Forum): Web master, programmer, artist, Wiki moderator, forum moderator, and documenter.

Tools of a Piga Programmer

1. GAMBAS: is a free software basic development tool similar to Visual Basic, it is used for Piga's GNU/Linux development.
2. Game Maker: is a commercial game development tool for game development and is used by Piga for MS Windows development.
Game Maker is proprietary and requires the full version of it to fully modify project files,
Piga however offers a service that allows developers who modify Piga Game Maker projects to
send us their modified versions so that we can compile it for them.
Send your projects to GMCompile@piga.yoll.net, only modified Piga projects applicable for this service.
3. Bluefish: used to make the Piga Software website as well as other Piga websites.
4. Audacity: Audio Development and OGG conversions.
5. Firefox/Epiphany/Konquerer: web browsing.
6. Fedora GNU/Linux: Operating system of choice.
7. Ice Tea: Caffeine shot.
8. Noodle Soup: hacker fuel.

Piga Software Downloads

1. Piga Software Theme Track: OGG Vorbis, Midi.
Composed by Malcolm Wilson Multimedia, and is under the GFDL.
2. Piga Software Wallpaper: 800x600, 1024x768
Click on your screen resolution. A preview of the Wallpaper will appear, left click it and select "set as desktop background"
Wallpapers where created by Hamish Wilson and are under the GFDL.

Looking for more information about a Piga Software related topic go to our Wiki!

Defective by Design: the fight against DRM

Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved. Please send website bug notices, patches and suggestions to projectwebsite@piga.yoll.net.

Tested in: Firefox, Seamonkey, Konquerer, Epiphany, Opera, and Internet Explorer 6 and 7. Website last updated on: January 20, 2008.
Operating Systems tested on: Fedora GNU/Linux 7, CentOS GNU/Linux 5, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows XP Professional.