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Time is flying... or am I so slow?
:wink:

Anyhow, I have worked a bit on the game.
The fire sprites and the whole fire process are ready, so if you use a lightning, sooner or later you will cause a forest-fire.
For the testing, I've created a new species ("firestest.spc") which is able to make ...

I've made my first sprite!
It's only a little lightning striking, and still it gives the feeling of a real game.

When you start the game, first you have to plant a tree (after creating the terrain and the species of course), only then are you allowed to use lightnings. For a faster checking you can ...

Saving and loading is possible now, plus there is a bit of finances in the game now.

I've checked the code and found that the slow process was caused by some unnecessary loops. I replaced them, and now it is fast again.

I've made a lot of changes on the code, some simplifications, some new features, but when you look at the game from outside, there is little visible from this.
Anyhow I uploaded this version to just to have a backup copy in a secure place.

Calculating the effects of winds/storms makes the game ...

Hi Andy,

there are 7 help files already (and will be even more), one for every part or aspect of the game. Probably you have read the one about the species creation.
If you click help in the terrain creation window, you get another help, and yet another in the small popup-window where you can set ...

Hi Andy,

should you have problems with understanding the terrain generating code, just let me know.

A brief description of the game...
Have you already read the help files? You can reach them from the game itself (help menu), or you could just use any text-editor to open the .hlp files (they are ...

Hi everybody,
I'm still alive, was only rather busy lately.
Anyhow I haven't forgotten about this project.

There are several smaller changes, also some simplifications, and some "polishing" to make the game a bit more understandable. The "Events' report" has also a better structure now. The ...

There is a new update after a long time...
I've made several smaller changes on the game, in the meantime. The events in the next-turn-phase are a bit different now, and the "Events' report" is more understandable (though I'm sure it's far from being perfect). I've also worked a bit on the helpfiles.

I haven't given up the project, only had some trouble finding time to work on it...

Now, the basic framework of the "next turn phase" is ready: Seedlings grow up to the understorey - trees of the understorey grow up to the overstorey - trees of the overstorey grow seeds - the seeds are scattered ...

Update again...
Well, the game is still not in the phase where you could enjoy it as a game, but slowly I'm getting really near to that part.
Now the beginning of the "next turn phase" is working. The game checks the water and nutrition demands of the species and compares them to the rainfall and ...

This is my entry for the text-based challange.

It's a very simple program, it gives a chiming sound in regular intervals, to make you aware of time passing by. You only need to set the frequency.

New update.
Some parts of the code are made more efficient. The main game window is finished, the left hand graphicbox is for the nature-related thematic maps, the right hand one for the species distribution in the various storeys of the forest.
The first symbolic act of the actual game is the ...

I've updated the file.
I have a problem now. In the main window, the border of groupboxes is not around the radiobuttons. The upper border runs just through the radiobuttons. No idea, why?

The species creation window is working now. All buttons are functioning, except for the AI (that comes later).

There are two pre-made species, birch and beech, that you can load if you don't feel like setting all parameters yourself.

There is also a help accessible to make everything more ...