Tribe

Tribe is a simple turn-based strategy game based on the Paleolithic Era of Earth's history. I decided that it would be neat to make a game of this nature after watching the movie "Quest For Fire". The objective of the game is to start with a very small tribe of early human ancestors and--through good leadership, discovery of skills, and a lot of luck--make a thriving tribe capable of surviving the elements.

The game is being written in Free BASIC.

2009/01/06 - [Download]

Controls

Arrow keys move you around the map.

Use the mouse to click on objects like camps and tribe members.

If you have a tribe member selected, the arrow keys move him.

Clicking on the mini map will move you to that area of the map.

ESC ends the demo.

Description

Reads map data from ./Maps/Map.dat.

Images are read from the ./Images folder.

Fonts are read from the ./Fonts folder.

Terrain names are read from the ./Data/Tiles.txt file.

The minimap is dynamically generated from the map.

The map can be altered using the mapgen.exe program. ESC saves and quits. Left and right mouse buttons in the swatch area will assign a tile to each button to draw on the map with. Currently, the selected tile isn't displayed in a friendly way.

Tribe members and camps are randomly generated around the map.

Fog of war is uncovered as you move tribe members around, but it doesn't turn off automatically.

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