rosalia@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Mark Galassi) (02/24/91)
Announcement of Dominion version 1.02beta
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[
Dominion 1.02 will be posted to comp.sources.games after
I get a little feedback from anonymous ftp users.
]
Dominion (renamed from Stony Brook World, SBW) is a multi-player world
simulation game. Each user is the leader of a nation, and makes
decisions for that nation. The decisions are political, military,
diplomatic and economic, and all these are extremely important for the
well-being of a nation. The game is not real-time: a user plays
her/his turn and then an update is run periodically to incorporate
changes of all players.
Dominion has features from both fantasy role-playing games, educational
games, and war games: a user needs to develop a character as leader of
a nation, keep a healty economy, and can then develop a strong
military force using magic or technology.
Dominion was developed at SUNY at Stony Brook by a group of students
in Physics, Computer Science and other departments, in the
spring/summer of 1990. It is under the Free Software Foundation
Copyright (GNU General Public Licence). It has beta tested in a game
at Stony Brook involving 40 players, which has ran for about 2 months
(about 40 turns). Another game which is not a beta test is being
played at Stony Brook right now, and we find that it is quite stable:
the only gamemaster intervention required is to remove old mail lock
files.
It has been tested on several versions of UNIX: System V.2 (Ridge and
UNIX PC), System V.3 (MIPS and SGI), System V.4 (386 boxes), SCO Xenix
system V (386 boxes), Sun OS 4.0 (sun sparcstation), ULTRIX (vax),
mach (NeXT). A previous version was ported to the amiga, though the
port would have to be redone from scratch now.
Dominion was originally inspired by Conquer, a very creative game written
by Ed Barlow and Adam Bryant, though it has diverged a lot.
Version 1.02beta of Dominion is available by anonymous ftp from
max.physics.sunysb.edu [129.49.21.100]
in
~ftp/pub/dominion-1.02beta.tar.Z
The documentation is written in LaTeXinfo. If you don't have the
latexinfo.sty and tabular.sty files needed to run latex, you can
ftp the files
dominion.dvi.Z
and
dominion.PS.Z
from the same directory.
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{These opinions are mine, and should be everybody else's :-)}
Mark Galassi rosalia@dirac.physics.sunysb.edu
rosalia@mozart.UUCP rosalia@sunysbnp.BITNET