Helios2400 
Helios 2400 is a strategy game set in the future Solar System on Mars: the Martian colony has declared independence from Earth and must assemble a legitimate global government before Earth can reassert its colonial authority. Lead your faction to lead the Martian people!
Inspiration
Helios2400 is spirtually inspired by the diplomatic gameplay of the 1996 Holistic Design game "Emperor of the Fading Suns", updated for the 21st century. The king-of-the-hill and diplomatic aspects married to a setting of where players are factions in a single nation are emphasized.
Installation
- Download & Install LÖVE2D for your platform.
- Download & Install NODE.js for your platform
- Checkout this repository with Git.
- Run with
love .in the repository root. You may have to set up an alias in your terminal. - run_dev.sh (included in the repo) will run tests and then the game, assuming love.app is installed in your applications folder (Mac only script)
Testing
- Uses Busted for unit testing
- Run tests with
busted spec/after installing busted (luarocks recommended)
Getting Started
There are a few places to consider consulting in order to begin collaborating on Helios 2400:
- The Project Page here on Github holds the currently planned roadmaps. Here you can see which issues are being worked on actively and which issues are prioritized.
- The Issue Page is full of stuff that can be worked on. Please submit an issue if you found a problem that has not been noted already. Suggestion issues are welcome too, but please tag them as such.
- The Github Wiki serves as a container for general documentation, although (as tends to be the case), the source-code is the base truth.
- Feel free to stop by my blog to get recent State of the Game announcements. There should be a section dedicated to Helios 2400, or conspicuous postings.
- The Game Design Document tries to thoroughly document everything, from the perspectives of Gameplay, User Interface, and Implementation.
Pull Request Process
The Helios2400 project accepts pull requests against the master branch.
I recommend writing your pull request summary and naming your branch following existing convention to keep things tidy:
- Branch names ideally follow the format
issue_##_briefdescription - Pull requests should have a descriptive name, link to the issue being addressed, a checklist of features/items to be implemented, and finally any additional notes.
- Pull requests are reviewed using the built-in Github code review process before being merged into master.
Premium Plans
Although Helios2400 is open source software, there are plans to seek funding for its development and art assets. A premium version of Helios2400 with lovely art assets and expanded scenarios is in the works. The source-code and art assets shared on this repository, however, are covered by the permissive license listed at the bottom of this readme.
Acknowledgements
Thanks goes to Coderbunker for support in finding developers and funding and encouragement for Helios2400.
Contributors
- Edward Miller Producer & Lead Developer
- Thimo Vasser Developer
- Ricky Ng-Adam Coderbunker Liaision
Music
"Ritual" , "Floating Cities" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
License/Legal
This entire repository's source code is licensed under The MIT License, listed in this repository's root directory in LICENSE.md