Since I dont have enough time to complete this game and many features are fudged at the time of creation, I will release the whole source code on sourceforge.net soon (have applied for space)

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Continents   A freeware turn based strategy written entirely in Java and run in any system supported by Java and has a GUI interface. This game is constantly being worked on during my freetime, please visit back for updates. To see a new feature appeared in the game, send your suggestion to vb_user@yahoo.com
Version   0.7 build 26
Author   ©opyrighted by Minh Hoang, 2003.
Download  
  1. New version beta 0.98 with new features (the list coming soon)
  2. One big executable file V0.98(Installer & Uninstaller)
    This version has better map generation, resource trading, conversation/job system,challenging AI
  3. (V0.98) Big Zip file for running the game in environment other than Windows You will have to unzip to a folder, make run.bat executable on your OS and then run it. If you dont have java 1.4 installed, you will need to download it
  4. Several small files that can be put onto floppy (Installer & Uninstaller)
What comes next?   Game database editing utility that let you modify the game and create new game. The next release (around August) should let you modify all statistics, create events, units but without new graphics and sounds. Latter version will support all possible changes.
Features  
  1. Random map generation: If you played Master of Magic, you know how interesting it is to get a new map every time you play so you can explore. This game generate a complete random map each time but still follow the main theme and story.
  2. City management: Each city in game will occupy 9 squares of the map where your worker can havest some raw food and resources. In addition, you will be able to build factories, barracks, etc inside the city and assign some of your citizens to work at to produce military units, refined resources, etc.
  3. Each player/nation has a number of unique techs, units and buildings. Not all are available in one game so if you replay, you might get a completely different sets with some you never see before. This hopefully increase re-playability
  4. Play the game: The list of features are long but you can find all features in a normal strategy game like combat, upgrade, research, trade, etc. The game is still being developed so check back for a while to get new versions or send email to me for suggestions, advices
Screenshots   With Fog of War

Without Fog of War
System Requirements  
  1. Java Runtime Engine version 1.4 or above. If you dont have one, go to Javasoft website and download it (~4MB).
  2. Pentium 1, 64 MB RAM
  3. Soundcard (optional)
Development   This game is the 4th game I wrote just for fun. But I constantly work on it, right now the game in my development is version 0.8 but I dont want to releas it as I still do some fine tuning and bugs fixing. You will find the story in the game very crappy as I didnt write any story at all. The game scripting language allows users to write their own events, actions, conditions, etc but doesnt come with the download as I still expand the number of scripts.

If you want to take pare in, just email me. But only people who can do programming, graphics editing, sound editing.

If you have a cool idea and want it to appear in the game, let me know

Help & Tips   Going to release one soon. The game has a little introduction and manual so please read it first. Any problem just email me.

Game Controls

  • Moving objects: Left Mouse click
  • Moving screen: Right Mouse click any where on the map
  • Bombard option: Select an army, Hold Shift + Left click on target. Make sure you have some ranged units.
  • End turn (short cut): CTRL E
  • New game (short cut): CTRL N
  • Save game (short cut): CTRL S
  • Load game (short cut): CTRL L
Healing your units

In order to heal and gain their full combat effectiveness, your units need supplies. Each single unit/character requires different supplies but the most important thing is food. So move your army into a base, load up lots of food. They will fight about twice stronger than they are without any supplies. You can load resources onto your army and then go to other play cities, armies and trade with them (Not fully implemented this feature yet).

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