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King & Country

Please note: This game is still under development, with release projected for October 1998. The information in these documents is subject to change without notice.

Last updated: 8th December 1997


History

Back in 1996 Software7 began work on a project designed to revolutionise the Acorn games scene. King & Country was to be the pioneer of a new breed of games to take full advantage of the new Risc PC computers, and the StrongARM processor whose arrival was then imminent. However as students, other commitments took precedence and the project has developed quite slowly.

Now we are putting renewed energy into the game and it looks as if we will be on target for release in October 1998.


Introduction

King & Country is a medieval overhead war strategy game. It uses a real time interactive game engine with AI computer players and the option to play network games via serial cable or modem (including TCP/IP) against other human players. You can read more about the Units and Structures in the game.


Technical

At present support for older Acorn computers has been dropped, and we are concentrating all work on the Risc PC version which runs in a SVGA (800x600) screen mode in 256 colours. This version will also take full advantage of 16bit sound hardware and probably MIDI hardware as well, where fitted.
Once the whole game works on the Risc PC we will port it to older machines supporting all computers with ARM 7500/ARM 3, and possibly even ARM 250.


Graphics

We have now finalised the look that the game screen will take and consequently have placed an early screenshot here along with the other graphics.

A proposed title screen (24Kb)


A proposed title screen (16Kb)


A sword in a stone (30Kb)


A castle tower (17Kb)


A preview screenshot (97Kb)

Please note that these graphics have been substancially reduced in quality to reduce loading times accross the network, the images used in the game are of a much higher level of detail.

Also note that these images are now rather old, the current graphics look much nicer, but I don't have time to change these at the moment.


You can contact the developers of this game at:


Software7@webscotland.co.uk


This document is © Software7 1997
Last update 8th December 1997

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