Widelands is an economic and military simulation game. The map is shown in parallel perspective with 3-dimensional terrain. Buildings and units are animated. The player controls a tribe. Land is claimed and held by military presence and then used to build an economy to support military expansion and confrontation. The project is a work in progress where much remains to be done; computer players and multiplayer are in very early stages of development. Some features that have already been implemented are exploration, fog of war, sound effects, background music, adjustable simulation speed, a few tutorial campaigns, translations to several languages, and a map editor.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Demand checks for production were added, so a sitewill not deplete the supply of a ware type to fillwarehouses with another ware type, which easilycaused deadlocks. Saved games can be loaded inmultiplayer games. The framerate was limited toreduce CPU usage. A /me-command was added inmultiplayer chat. Graphics were added for allAtlantean buildings. Maps, songs, and soundeffects were added. The syntax of some game dataformats and tribe economies was cleaned up. Manybugs were fixed. Many parts of the UI wereimproved.
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11-26-2008
