| Finlann | |
Finlann est un projet de Warcraft-like. Mes motivations pour mener ce projet sont diverses. Tout d'abord, et principalement, parce que j'aime coder, encore, toujours, encore... et encore... Et d'autre part, parce que je trouve passionant de voir les differentes briques du jeu, petit a petit, construire un veritable monde. Ce jeu m'a permis beaucoup progresser en C/C++, de me rendre compte que sans doc, un code n'est rien, même quand l'on code seul. J'ai aussi appris à programmer une petite IA en utilisant des machines à états finis, un pathfinder, un moteur de jeu.... Le code source fait environs 15000 lignes, ce qui me semble conséquent pour un petit programme fait au coin du feu. Le jeu est stable, enfin je veux dire par là que je ne n'ai pas vu crasher la version beta.
La version actuelle et sans doute définitive permet de jouer aux deux premières missions. On retrouve la plupart des options de Warcraft. La première mission permet de mener un prêtre à un temple, en traversant la carte et en affrontant quelques ennemis. La seconde mission propose au joueur de construire son village à proximité d'une mine d'or. Il devra ensuite créer une armée et attaquer le village Orc tout proche. Ce village est défendu par plusieurs tours, des archers et des soldats.
Le gros défaut du jeu tient dans ses animations. Je n'ai pas trouvé de graphistes pour compléter les planches bitmaps. Donc pour l'instant, ce sont des copier-coller de l'original de Blizzard, sans animations. Je crois que le jeu serait beaucoup plus agréable si de nouvelles animations étaient dessinées. Mais cela représente une quantité de travail considérable...
Beta version of the game : beta_1.zip ( 796 kb)
Config necessaire : directX 8, et une carte video avec le mode 640*480*16
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Scenario
For many centuries, orcs
have rules the world of Finlann and there are only a few humans left.
You do not know exactly what caused the humans to disappear, but you
have been told that it was caused by the gods. All of humans believe
that they will dir soon, when the last village of humans, your village
is found by the orcs...
This morning, while you were working in the fields, the oldest man of
the village, Erghust came to you. Nobody from village knows him. He is
living alone, at the edge of the forest. The people of the village say
that he is foolish because he spends all of his days in the forest
walking around each tree for hours and hours:
"Hello Sylwor, I have found it at last, I have found what I have been
looking for hundreds of years...
But we are in great danger now, Orcs will find us soon... I have found
one copy of the Book of rAad. Many centuries ago, there were 7 copies
of the Book, each book describes the prayers that must be said at the
temple, in order to get the friendship of God.... But humans have lost
so many wars against Orcs, Orcs tortured many monks, and each time one
of them was praying for them in temples... They have many temples for
them nowadays, but we do not know if they have the books or if they
have burned them, or maybe they have one but don't know how to read
it...These books have a strong power and are linked together. Since I
found this one this morning, the other books have been awakened. I am
sure of this and I am sure they know...
But that is not the most important factor... You are more important
than the book, this icon you have always had on your shoulder, it shows
that you are the last offspring.. Your father was a monk, like your
great-grandfather... like you...
This book is not mine, it is yours... Take it..."
As Erghust gives you the book, you hear shoutings from far away, you
can see grey smoke coming towards the forest, from the village, and
suddenly.... Orcs ..are everywhere, running at you...
Erghust gives a last glance at you and says:
"run my son, your are the last chance for the humans. Your life is more
important than any of the others. You must find the temple. Go to the
south, to the south....!!!!! "
You barely have the time to hide yourself behind a fence with two other
peons as Orcs are surrounding Erghust. Erghust is whispering something
to you that you can barely understand, when suddenly, a huge lightning
bolt comes from the sky. A huge cloud of dust blows into your face and
the ground shakes as if there were just an earthquake....
When you can open your eyes, there is a big crater in front of you,
Erghust and all of the Orcs have been destroyed... But at the other end
of the field, you see a new group of Orcs coming towards you... You
decide to run deeper into the forest with your two friends...
A few words about the graphics
You certainely noticed that artwork and fonts are not original ones. I just "borrowed" them to Blizzard ( from Warcraft and Diablo). It is just a temporary solution to give a good design to my demo. I can understand that an artist might be offended, but as soon as I will receive the help of anyone to draw original ones, it will be replaced...
Author : Adrien
Auclair
adrien.auclair@club-internet.fr
Last update : 12/12/2002
