Battle Drones gets French reskin fork Panache one day after open source release

Panache is a French reskin fork of the real-time strategy game Battle Drones, which Simon Willison released under Apache 2.0 the day before. It is set in Belle Époque France around 1900 and adds steampunk units such as airships, steam transports, armored creusot, military-hatted automata, and the mobile fortress Gargantua, along with an animated intro video and French-style music. The author posted side-by-side comparisons of the original Battle Drones model pages and Panache's replacements, plus a comparison of the original Goliath and its new design. For now the fork is mainly an art and sound update, with gameplay identical to the original, and it runs on mobile and in the browser. Because the original uses the Apache 2.0 license, developers interested in open-source game derivatives, reskinning, and localization can directly reference this fork's model-replacement and intro-animation approach.