Danger from the Deep

2003 video game

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]

## Development[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

* Free and open-source software portal

## External links[edit]

* Official website

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Danger from the Deep.

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Knight, John (20 May 2010). "Danger from the Deep". Linux Journal. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
2. ^ a b Behind the Lines #24 Archived 2017-04-17 at the Wayback Machine by Scott Parrino on The Wargamer (04 Dec 2004)
3. ^ "CVS log for 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. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
6. ^ "Danger from the Deep Git repo". SourceForge. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
7. ^ "Latest file releases". SourceForge. 2010-05-08. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
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)