A recreation of the original Populous in Python
Still in it's very early stages.
Get the latest Python implimentation for you environment
http://www.python.org/download/
Get the corresponding pygame package
http://pygame.org/download.shtml
- Creates a simple world with 2 tribes.
- The people in the tribes can
- build houses,
- worship at the idol (becoming the tribe leader),
- and fight the other tribe
- The houses can
- generate new people
- The player can
- start a new game
- end the game
- start a new game
- create a landscape
- concept of land & water
- height map
- generator
- Houses
- Need to grow based on the area they have available to them
- building them needs to take into account the area cultivated by existing houses
- mark squares as cultivated by specific houses & tribes
- cannot cultivate sloping areas of the landscape
- Need to grow based on the area they have available to them
- concept of land & water
- Natives
- ???
- Teams * How does the power meter grow? * Show population meters
- Interface
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God powers * Move the idol * create knight * Raise lower land (at the corners) * Swamp * earthquake * Rain of fire * volcano * flood * Armageddon
- Info icon
- Team Goal setting
- build/fight/idol
- Options
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save/load games
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Multiplayer
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Sounds/music
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