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TripleA is a free and open-source turn based strategy game based on the Axis & Allies board game.
Gameplay features multiplayer and several AIs for single-player mode. For live multiplayer games, the community maintains two lobbies for the most current Stable and Unstable versions. There is also a Play by Email multiplayer mode.
A wide variety of map scenarios have been developed for (e.g. World War II, Punic Wars and Napoleonic Wars) on moddb.com (archived) with a variety of rules, units and many options, such as "low luck" which reduces the number of dice rolled making game depend more on strategy.
History is developed in Java and can run on personal computers with Java SE installed. Some designers also worked on FreeCol, and . Originally set up on SourceForge repository in 2002, development was in 2016 migrated to GitHub. In February 2018 the game's GPLv2 license was re-licensed to the GPLv3.License on github.com
Reception has been compared to Axis & Allies and also Risk.Playing World War II Game, TripleA, on Linux review on RDTechie.com (archived, Jul 18 2011)
A Chip.de review called a TripleA on chip.de by Michael Humpa (in German, retrieved on 16 May 2017) and ranked it 30 of 238 in their strategy game ranking list. Chip.de named also among the in 2011.Tolle Taktik: Die 30 besten kostenlosen Strategiespiele - Platz 29: TripleA by Rupert Mattgey & Dominik Hayon on chip.de (29.05.2011) A cnet.com/download.com staff review rated it 4.5 of 5 and noted that . A Games4Mac review of the macOS version rated the game 70 of 100 in 2006.TripleA Review on games4mac.de (archived, in German, October 2006) giga.de rated TripleA 3 of 5.TripleA on giga.de (in German) Other reviewers of TripleA include Macworld, Ghacks, and O'Reilly Media, Inc.Ghacks article retrieved on 16 May 2017Open Source Mac Gaming by Robert Daeley on O'Reilly Media, Inc. (2005)TripleA was ranked 2 in 2008 FreewareGenius' ranking of turn based strategy games on Freewaregenius (archived)TripleA 1.9.0.0.3627 - Annihilate your enemies and conquer the world in this free turn-based strategy game by Mike Williams on PC Authority A review in German computer print magazine LinuxUser 2007 / 12 praised the Linux version of TripleA as and .Die Welt ist nicht genug on LinuxUser 2007 / 12 by Kristian Kißling (in German, December 2012) Linux Format magazine in December 2011 reviewed the game and called it and .War gaming - TripleA in Linux Format issue 151, December 2011, page 72 (December 2011)
was also used and mentioned in computer science related scientific publications due to its open source nature and project size and maturity.An Empirical Analysis of the Distribution of Unit Test Smells and Their Impact on Software Maintenance by Gabriele Bavota, Abdallah Qusef, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia, David Binkley, University of Salerno, University of Molise, Loyola University Maryland on 2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software MaintenanceMind Game: (Axis and Allies) Dissertation by David Lupien St-Pierre, University of Glasgow (2009)
The Polish game magazine CD-Action included on a cover disk in 2012.CD-Action #789 on ry-online.pl As is fully free and DFSG conforming in software and content, it is included in many Linux distributions, for instance Ubuntu OS, Gentoo, or Debian.How To Install TripleA under Ubuntutriplea on packages.gentoo.orgjava-dev on blends.debian.org/games
became a popular freeware title which was offered by multiple download outlets,Soft Files review and download on soft-files.com (archived)TripleA on computerbild.de (in German) including digital distributor Desura.triplea on Desura.com Alone from SourceForge.net the client was downloaded between 2002 and 2016 over 1.2 million times.2002-01-10+to+2017-05-16 downloads of TripleA on sourceforge.net (May 2017) The game's maps are provided via a separate GitHub repository and are downloaded from there after a client (from whatever source) is installed and started, indicating the existence of over 7 million installations between 2010 and May 2017 (prior to the GitHub migration) from SourceForge alone.download stats of tripleamaps on sourceforge.net (May 2017)
See also Axis & Allies (1998 video game) List of open source games
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