Release of Boson 0.13, a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game for
the K Desktop
Environment.
Most of the work since the last release has been on behind
the scenes
features, such as fixing various issues with the new cmake
based build system
(which has made our life a lot easier) and a lot of small
code improvements.
Also the groundwork of a few new features has been layed
that will get used
in a later release, but are not yet supported by the game.
An example here is
code support for radar jammers.
The actual user-visible highlights of this release:
* New fog of war. In addition to the original fog of war
that covers the whole
terrain until it has been explored by a unit, we also have
"fog" that covers
all units that are outside the players' sight range.
* Icons for distant units: Units that are very far away from
the camera
position are replaced by a constant-size icon showing unit's
type and it's
owner's status toward you (friendly/neutral/enemy). This
makes it possible to
still recognize units that would otherwise be a small dot on
the screen only.
Note that many core features are still in development and
thus Boson is still
mostly unplayable.
For a longer, though still very incomplete list see
http
://boson.eu.org/announces/changelog-0.13.php
Requirements
You can find a list of hardware and software requirements at
http://boson.eu.org/info
.php
Note that proper 3d acceleration is required.
Downloading Boson
Source packages can be found at
http://sourceforge.net/project/
showfiles.php?group_id=15087&release_id=451731
Installation instructions
First of all you need at least cmake 2.4.2, see
http://www.cmake.org
/files/v2.4/
Then download boson-all-0.13.tar.bz2 and follow these
instructions:
tar xjvf boson-all-0.13.tar.bz2
cd boson-all-0.13
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
su
make install
If you want to install at a different prefix,
use "cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/install/boson/to
.." instead of
the "cmake .." line.
Installation instructions can also be found at
http://boson.eu.org/i
nstall.php
The Boson Team
http://boson.eu.org
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