From kde-announce Mon Apr 24 17:20:49 2000 From: Thomas Capricelli Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:20:49 +0000 To: kde-announce Subject: boson-0.4 is out X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-announce&m=95700975705364 This is the announcement for boson-0.4. ================================= Boson is a real-time strategy game, like Command&Conquer(tm) or StarCraft(tm). It is designed to run on Unix (Linux) computers, uses the QT Toolkit and the QwSpriteField library. A minimum of two players is required, since there is no artificial intelligence (yet?). Boson is still in very early development and not playable yet. Boson's Code and Graphics are published under the GNU General Public License (GPL). the homepage is : http://aquila.rezel.enst.fr/boson/ New name contest =============== We are looking for a new name for boson. If you have any idea, please contact us at : orzel@yalbi.com ( or reply to this mail) New in this version =============== * Editor is fully usable and the file format is considered stable -> you may make your own maps to play with * handling of ressources : "oil" and "minerals" -> you need to have enough of them to build whatever you want * new ground tiles : grass_with_oil, water_with_oil. * oil-harvesters are here and usable -> you will actually gain oil-ressource by using them * big explosion when something is destroyed :-) * Themes red_human and blue_human have merged into "human", boson is now handling the team-colorization itself. -> boson-pics is less bloated * speed improvements in theme loading : boson and editor should start a lot faster. * lot of internal changes on the core engine, and bug fixes, as usual. Here follows the LSM entry : ======================= Begin3 Title: Boson Version: 0.4 Entered-date: Apr 2000 Description: network real time strategy game (warcraft-like), whithout AI. Keywords: server, warcraft, strategy, game, KDE, X11, Qt, RTS Author: Thomas Capricelli Maintained-by: Thomas Capricelli Primary-site: http://aquila.rezel.enst.fr/boson/download/boson-0.4.tar.bz2 Home-page: http://aquila.rezel.enst.fr/boson/ Original-site: Platform: Linux and other Unices, needs Qt 1.4x and the KDE 1.x libs Copying-policy: GNU Public License End regards, The boson Team