It has been a while since the last post, but I wanted to share something fun: I went looking for an old X-Wars build to refresh my memory on balancing and mechanics for the new browser MMO. The code is ancient - I did not expect it to boot - yet it came back faster than it had any right to.
So I put it online for everyone, not just for my own archaeology.
- X-Wars from around 2007 is running again.
- English only - no other translations on this legacy instance.
- Expect breakage. A lot of things no longer work the way anyone remembers.
- Old cheat protections are disabled to keep the server maintainable - please do not exploit it.
- Original documentation was lost in backups; archive.org still has the 2007 site.
- Fleet interactions may not work. I could not easily disable noob protection - if you get ships and can attack someone, let me know.
- The UI was built for smaller monitors. You may need browser zoom (or reading glasses).
Play it here: https://original.xwars.net/
Why bother?
Code older than twenty years still executing is wild. Running this instance helps in two ways:
- See who still wants to play a deep browser space strategy MMO.
- Show collaborators the old game when they have never seen X-Wars firsthand.
Footnote
This is a temporary nostalgia lane, not a maintained product. Bugs will stay bugs. Be kind to anyone exploring it while I keep working on the resurrection.