Danger from the Deep

Platform(s)| Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Microsoft Windows
Release| 2003
Genre(s)| Submarine simulator
Mode(s)| Single-player, IPv6 and IPv4 Multiplayer planned

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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.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Development
* 2 Reception
* 3 See also
* 4 External links
* 5 References

## 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.[2]

The game targets Multi-platform, supporting FreeBSD, OpenBSD,[3] Mac OS X,[4] Linux distributions, and Microsoft Windows by utilizing SDL and OpenGL. Hardware addressed is OpenGL 1.5 (while recommending "OpenGL 2.0 or greater"[5]) 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.[6] The last downloadable release was May 8, 2010[7]

## Reception

A Linux Journal review from 2010 received DftD quite positive.[1]

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.".[2] 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".[8]

The game was downloaded between 2003 and April 2017 1.3 million times alone from SourceForge,[9] chip.de counted another 100,000 downloads.[10]

## See also

## External links

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Knight, John (20 May 2010). "Danger from the Deep". Linux Journal. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/danger-deep. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Behind the Lines #24 by Scott Parrino on The Wargamer (04 Dec 2004)
3. ↑ "CVS log for ports/Games/Dangerdeep/Makefile". https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/games/dangerdeep/Makefile.
4. ↑ Danger From The Deep Comes To OS X by Cord Kruse on insidemacgames.com (April 20, 2007)
5. ↑ "Downloads – Danger from the Deep". 30 October 2009. http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/downloads/.
6. ↑ "Danger from the Deep Git repo". 2020-06-10. https://sourceforge.net/p/dangerdeep/git/ci/master/tree/.
7. ↑ "Latest file releases". 2010-05-08. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dangerdeep/files/.
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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