The Nice Tribes

Whats up everybody!
I am growing a 4X recreation – The Nice Tribes. I need to share my successes with you.

An tour into historical past

I need to let you know about my venture, which I’ve been engaged on for greater than six years.
I began in 2016 with an idea and a map generator in 2D mode, however it changed into 3D.

Taking a look at these previous screenshots and the newest ones, it makes me cry, however it’s not a tear of disappointment, however pleasure, what an enormous quantity of labor has been executed throughout this time!

For essentially the most half, I used to be doing the venture alone, however throughout the improvement, individuals are consistently becoming a member of the venture and falling off. I’m grateful to everybody who has contributed a minimum of just a little to the venture and even simply supported me with a sort phrase!

Within the final yr, a number of folks joined the venture, who started to make a major contribution. These are a number of idea artists, 3d modelers programmers, historians and screenwriters. The work went quicker!

Technical features

The sport is being developed on a self-written Java engine utilizing the LWJGL library. The sport runs on Home windows and *nix platforms.

I need to take a look at on Mac OS, however I haven’t got a MacBook but.

An necessary situation of compatibility of our recreation with built-in Intel graphics has been resolved. A take a look at pattern laptop computer with Intel HD Graphics 630. Every part works! FPS 15-30 frames.

The minimal system necessities might be greater: a video card with OpenGL 4.3 help, 4GB of RAM and an AMD Athlon 2X dual-core processor.
Advisable necessities are a GTX 1060 6GB graphics card, 8GB of RAM and a six-core processor.

Why do I would like a six-core processor? I totally implement multithreading help, as a result of synthetic intelligence works very quick

Key Options

The oblique operation, the participant can switch some management features to A.I.

Gameplay​

• These days there are 6 races within the recreation, the beginning one will depend on the participant’s spawn location.
• There are nomadic and sedentary ingame tribes, on the primary stage gamers can select each. If a participant has chosen a sedentary
  tribe, he can arrange a colony and handle and management it from the primary minutes of the sport.
• Territories of nations are divided into areas, every of them being managed individually. Every area can embrace a number of cities and settlements.
• Within the recreation, you will discover impartial places which are managed by simplified A.I.
• The sport has a technology of ruins that gamers can discover.
• On each tile of the sport discipline, there may be helpful sources to acquire, however first, the participant has to discover it.
• Two kinds of sources: renewable and exhaustible.
• Each settlement is break up into districts and every of them may be constructed up independently. The quantity and number of districts are limitless.
• There’s a simulation of dividing the inhabitants into totally different social strata, with particular person pursuits and calls for.
• Along with castes, there’s a division into factions that unite folks with frequent targets, like scientists or warriors.
• Faith is shaped by the participant’s alternative of gods to worship, in addition to defining sins and virtues to create dogmas.
• Participant types the tradition of his civilization utilizing a particular ingame constructor interface, relying on nationwide priorities.
• The sport financial system is predicated on barter. There’s a fixed commerce turnover, each inside one nation and within the worldwide market.
• Every product has its personal manufacturing chain, relying on the accessible sources and identified applied sciences.
• The science tree is non-linear and self-intersecting, its analysis will depend on the participant’s actions. Many applied sciences may be explored in a number of methods. For instance, sea navigation may be investigated with out entry to the ocean, however by way of energetic use of navigable rivers.
• Within the recreation, there are 15 instructions of progress, for which the participant receives analysis factors.
• Rivers and canals have their very own throughput, a few of them could also be unavailable for navigation.
• Battles have ideas of real-time technique, like Whole Struggle. However now that concept hasn’t been applied, so fight actions stay as hidden calculations of the outcomes.
• Every military isn’t a single unit, however a system of individually managed brigades, consisting of several types of fighters.
• Each troop group is constructed by the participant, selecting varied kinds of used weapons, armour, strategies of motion, and particular equipment.
• A.I. has no benefit over the participant, like details about the territories and participant’s progress.
• Numerous random occasions happen on the sport map, together with these associated to the participant’s actions.
• The sport implements the performance of man-made and pure disasters.
• Diplomacy has an prolonged construction, with the flexibility to type alliances of a number of gamers in a particular constructor.
• Within the recreation, it’s attainable to alter the interior coverage of the state to regulate the wants of the inhabitants and its angle to the ruling authorities.
• Parliament, councillors, and elected leaders can act as candidates for the needs of the folks.
• Rulers and significants have separate mortal personalities.
• Ingame personalities have their very own traits that have an effect on nation administration. For AI they’re additionally beginning factors for decision-making.
• The participant’s actions affect the atmosphere.
• The sport has terraforming performance.

Technical facet​

• A recreation map is created utilizing process technology, relying on set parameters.
• In singleplayer there may be up to 50 A.I. Sooner or later, this quantity might be elevated, however that wants testing for the newest recreation phases that weren’t applied but.
• The sport engine helps multi-threading, which permits it to help a lot bigger maps with a very massive quantity of A.I.’s.