Epiar is an open source, open-ended space action/trading game. On this site you can download the full version of the game for free, read the latest news about game development, learn how to create add-ons for the game, meet other players and developers, and even access the source code. If you're unfamiliar with Epiar, please read our introduction.

The Epiar Development Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Epiar version 0.4.1 (0.4.0 has not been made available due to minor release issues).

Version 0.4.0 is our latest installment in our march toward creating an open source, action-packed, exciting space arcade trading simulation. Among the many new features of this release, we've added:

• Music and sound
• A more complex and usable Lua scripting interface
• Ability to board a ship
• Weapons and basic combat
• Jump gates and an expanded universe

Version 0.4.1 is available in both source code form and easy-to-run binaries using the links below. Binaries for additional operating systems should come along shortly (Windows, popular Linux distributions):

Epiar version 0.4.1 (source tar.bz2, 17 MB)
Epiar version 0.4.1 for Mac OS X (Intel, 21 MB)

It's been a bit quiet around here but the development team wanted to check in and let you know that version 0.4.0 is really shaping up and should be arriving in late summer!

Our roadmap is looking as though in the next version or two of our rewrite (hence some confusing versioning and old news on our Sourceforge.net page) is going to have us approaching feature completion, which should be very exciting to the players out there!

We'll keep you informed - check back in a bit for the release!

Work on version 0.4.0 continues but we are searching for additional developers to help us out. If you are interested, we can give you a tour of the code and help you on your way.

See the contact page to contact us or join the epiar-devel mailing list.

The transcript from the recent 0.4.0 planning meeting is now available here.

There will be a planning meeting for Epiar v0.4.0 in #epiar on irc.freenode.net this Friday, March 19, 2010 at 6:00pm PST (1800 GMT-8). All are encouraged to come and make your voice heard, or even just listen in and offer your advice.