dumbmatter / barbconq

Barbarian Conquest, a minigame built on a partial web-based port of Civ4

Barbarian Conquest

A 2X (eXplore and eXterminate) minigame built on a partial web-based port of Civilization 4.

Your goal is to capture the barbarian city. Use your scout, warrior, archer, chariot, spearman, and axeman to explore the island, find the barbarian city, and conquer it.

Copyright (C) Jeremy Scheff. All rights reserved.

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• Website: http://dumbmatter.com/barbconq

• Development website: https://github.com/dumbmatter/barbconq

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Installing and Running

If you just want to play the game, go to http://dumbmatter.com/barbconq

If you want to hack at the code, it's pretty straightforward. Open index.html in your browser and you are playing the game. The game is written in TypeScript, so you have to compile it to see the result of any changes you make. To do this, first install TypeScript (version 1.0.1 is the latest at the time I'm writing this):

$ npm install -g typescript

Then use TypeScript to compile barbconq by running the Makefile from this folder:

$ make

After that, you should see your changes reflected after reloading index.html.

For production, I use UglifyJS to minify the output of the TypeScript compiler. You can install it with:

$ npm install -g uglify-js

Then, after compiling the TypeScript code above, minify with this command:

$ make minify

There are some unit tests related to ensuring that displayed battle odds are accurate and exactly match those from Civilization 4 (it would be nice to have more tests...). To run the tests:

$ make check

Long-Term Plans

Would it be possible to completely clone Civilization 4 in TypeScript? If that question intrigues you, please get in touch with me.