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Allegiance

aka: Microsoft Allegiance
Moby ID: 2843

Trivia

Source code

The source code for Allegiance, developed by Microsoft Research Games, was released after the discontinuation of support for the game (check the related links section for a download link). Joel Dehlin commented:

It took some work to come to this decision. The chief concern was that the development team (who are all off doing new projects) would have to take too much time to reconstruct the build environment to work with the latest tools, pretty up the code, scrub the comments, etc. Since it was impossible to free up the time for the development team to do this work, we were left with the choice to release it as is (unsupported) or skip it altogether. Given where the Allegiance community has gone with NO SOURCES WHATSOEVER we decided that it would serve the community better to release the sources unsupported.

The source code was picked up by the community at FreeAllegiance.org and is now further developed by them. The game can be downloaded from the site and can now be played once again on their servers.

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Trivia contributed by retinadesgastada, Cantillon.