Oolite (video game)
| Oolite | |
|---|---|
| Developers | Giles Williams, Jens Ayton |
| Publishers | Giles Williams, Jens Ayton |
| Platforms | Microsoft Windows Linux macOS SGI Irix FreeBSD Pandora |
| Release |
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| Genre | Space trading and combat simulator |
| Mode | Single player |
| Oolite | |
|---|---|
A Cobra Mk. III near a Coriolis station in Oolite | |
| Initial release | July 2004 |
| Stable release | v1.92
/ 4 February 2026 |
| 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 |
| Website | oolite |
| Repository | https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite |
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.