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Populous Skirmish
Introduction
Populous: The Beginning- Skirmish mode is the second stab at making a fully customizable version of the single player Populous match. Its intent is to take the original multiplayer levels and place them in a single player mode allowing users to choose all options of the game. Some options will be available spells, available buildings, Fog of War™, God Mode, Alliances, and Difficulty. The project was originally inspired by a program called CrayBot, made by James "Servant" Travis. Servant originally made the program to have an Artificial Intelligence that would in theory learn as it played you in a single player Populous environment. CrayBot was also going to have fully customizable games; however, it was never finished. It did spawn off a version 1.00 Demo version which had five playable levels and a potential Artificial Intelligence. It was later proven that this Artificial Intelligence was none other than a scripted computer player used by Populous that did not learn or do anything that it was supposed to outside of the Populous environment. Although this was pointed out, Servant still was the first person to take a poke at making such an application.
The concept of making a fully customizable Single Player game was an ingenious concept. This is what encourage my design of the Skirmish Client. Although it does not use an Artificial Intelligence, it will have intelligent Populous scripts to provide a challenging game. This feature should hopefully be implemented when the program nears completion and once ALACN has finished decoding the Computer Scripts structure. I plan on having three different difficulty settings for each level, providing over 76 different experiences with computer players. Add to this the ability to customize alliances, God Mode, and Fog of War™.
This program is currently under developement and can be obtained by going to the downloads section.
Staff
Khickman- Programmed the Populous Skirmish interface and client.
Ted Tycoon- Programmed the original header file editor which the Skirmish client is based off of.
ALACN- made the language file which shows the names of the levels from the level selection screen.
A Special Thanks to all of the BETA testers who helped me squash bugs found in the early developement of the program.
Progress
A complete list of all version changes in Populous: The Beginning- Skirmish Mode can be found by clicking here.