Danger from the Deep
Danger from the Deep, often abbreviated as DftD, is an open-source World War II German U-boat simulation for PC, striving for technical and historical accuracy.
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Danger from the Deep
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- Date
- 2003
- Language
- German
- Genre
- simulation video game
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Danger from the Deep, often abbreviated as DftD, is an open-source World War II German U-boat simulation for PC, striving for technical and historical accuracy.
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The genre of Danger from the Deep is simulation video game. The language is German. Founded in 2003.
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Key facts
• Title — Danger from the Deep • Release — 2003 • Genre — Submarine simulator • Modes — Single-player, IPv6 and IPv4 Multiplayer planned • Platforms — Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Microsoft Windows • Illustration — Screenshot
Development
Development
The project was registered in 2003 on sourceforge.net and is since then developed as open source software under the GPLv2. In 2004 it reached beta status. The game targets Multi-platform, supporting FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Linux distributions, and Microsoft Windows by utilizing SDL and OpenGL. Hardware addressed is OpenGL 1.5 (while recommending "OpenGL 2.0 or greater") with around 256 MB of RAM, 1 GHz processor and common PC input devices (keyboard, mouse). Development is intermittent. As of June 11 2020 the latest commit to the Git repo was May 10, 2020. The last downloadable release was May 8, 2010
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Danger from the Deep is recorded from 2003.
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2003
Danger from the Deep created.
2003
Danger from the Deep is recorded from 2003.
2007
Danger from the Deep published.
2007
Danger from the Deep is recorded as published in 2007.
2009
Danger from the Deep DC Super Friends Paperback (2009) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
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Danger from the Deep (2013) — Open Library
Danger from the Deep DC Super Friends Paperback (2009) — Open Library
Reception
A Linux Journal review from 2010 received DftD quite positive. In 2004 The Wargamer recommended the game to "serious sim gamers" which should "head over to Danger from the Deep's official web site and take a look.". In 2011 an Ars Technica article on the history of simulation games noted Danger from the Deep as: "These days, submarine sims [...] are kept alive by the open-source Danger from the Deep". The game was downloaded between 2003 and April 2017 1.3 million times alone from SourceForge, chip.de counted another 100,000 downloads.
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- 1.Knight, John. Danger from the Deep. Linux Journal. 20 May 2010.
- 2.CVS log for ports/Games/Dangerdeep/Makefile.
- 3.Danger From The Deep Comes To OS X by Cord Kruse on insidemacgames.com (April 20, 2007)
- 4.Downloads – Danger from the Deep. 30 October 2009.
- 5.Danger from the Deep Git repo. SourceForge. 2020-06-10.
- 6.Latest file releases. SourceForge. 2010-05-08.
- 7.Behind the Lines #24 by Scott Parrino on The Wargamer (04 Dec 2004)
- 8.From Elite to Rollercoaster Tycoon: 20 years of sim games, part 2 - In part two of our epic history of video game sims, we abandon virtual by Richard Moss on Ars Technica (2011-06-22)
- 9.2000-04-11+to+2017-04-17 downloads on sourceforge.net
- 10.Danger-from-the-Deep on chip.de (May 2017)
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