Oolite (video game)

Oolite
Developer(s)	Giles Williams, Jens Ayton
Publisher(s)	Giles Williams, Jens Ayton
Platform(s)	Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, SGI Irix, FreeBSD, Pandora
Release	WW: July, 2004
Genre(s)	Space trading and combat simulator
Mode(s)	Single player

Oolite

A Cobra Mk. III near a Coriolis station in Oolite
Initial release	July 2004; 20 years ago (2004-07)
Stable release	v1.90 / 30 August 2020; 4 years ago (2020-08-30)
Repository	https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS
Platform	cross platform
License	GPL-2.0-or-later Resources dual-licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later and CC BY-NC-SA-3.0[1]
Website	oolite.space

Oolite is a free and open source 3D space trading and combat simulator "in the spirit of" Elite, a similar game published in the 1980s. The name is a contraction of object oriented Elite, because it was written in Objective-C, an object-oriented programming language. Among Oolite's several similarities to its source, the gaming experience is enhanced by the context set in Elite's original manual, and the accompanying novella, The Dark Wheel. Oolite is licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later for the source code, while resources (pictures, music, textures, models) are dual-licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later and CC BY-NC-SA-3.0.^[1]