After 20 years of development formed The first stable release of a step-by-step strategic game freecol 1.0 . The game continues the development of the old game Colonization and offers the gameplay in the colonization of uninitiated territories and creating a new nation. The code is written in the Java and subject under the license gplv2.
In the new version:
- Stability increased significantly, many errors are eliminated.
- added new colonies.
- A new image of forest and deserts is proposed.
- The artificial intelligence of a computer player is significantly improved.
- The parameters of the gaming cells in which the production of goods is carried out are given to the correspondence of the original game.
- added new graphic transitions between basic gaming cells.
- For mods, it is possible to determine the types of units specific for nations and tools for creating new basic gaming cells based on the existing texture.
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