Well this is cool to see others that are interested in a remake of OP1. I was such an addict to this game that playing for 2 days straight was not uncommon, nor being late for work
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About a year ago I started playing again and got a reminder to why I decided to go to college for programming. So I decided that I was gonna try and make it myself creating in the original format with some updating. The only prob was all I thought I had to work from was the game itself but then I remembered I still had the original strategy guide produced by Sierra Online (thumbsup) . This was an awesome find cause they give you sooo much info on the game's design including how they did the moral. About the only thing they didn't supply in it was the original code :'( .
So far I have started coding the moral since that's given in the book and the easiest to decipher from the book. The book gives so much info you can get overloaded and is hard to break things up into groups and focus on one part of the coding. The book even goes into some detail into the 3 expansions that were planned.
Here's a list of what resources I have access to via the book:
What the buildings' inputs/outputs are
Research trees
Planet descriptions
Solar system layouts
Formulas and variables(this is were the moral stuff is and how everything effects each other)
Robots, Vehicles
Oh my
But like I said earlier, the only thing they don't provide is the original source code.
If anyone wants some info or wants to give me a hand that would be cool, just let me know.
How I wanted to do this was pretty much how it was done originally but full screen tiling (IE Civ 2), putting in what was never added, fixing what was broken, updating the graphics, and doing what was never done like the planned expansions. And this is a lot for 1 person to do especially on a limited knowledge of game programming.
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