Pypulous

A recreation of the original Populous in Python

Still in it's very early stages.

Dependancies

Get the latest Python implimentation for you environment

http://www.python.org/download/

Get the corresponding pygame package

http://pygame.org/download.shtml

What works:

• Creates a simple world with 2 tribes.
• The people in the tribes can
• build houses,
  • worship at the idol (becoming the tribe leader),
  • and fight the other tribe
• The houses can
  • generate new people
• The player can
  • start a new game
    • end the game

TODO

• create a landscape
  • concept of land & water
    • height map
    • generator
  • Houses
    • Need to grow based on the area they have available to them
      • building them needs to take into account the area cultivated by existing houses
      • mark squares as cultivated by specific houses & tribes
      • cannot cultivate sloping areas of the landscape
• Natives
  • ???
  • Teams * How does the power meter grow? * Show population meters
  • Interface

    • God powers * Move the idol * create knight * Raise lower land (at the corners) * Swamp * earthquake * Rain of fire * volcano * flood * Armageddon

      • Info icon
      • Team Goal setting
        • build/fight/idol
      • Options

    • save/load games

    • Multiplayer

    • Sounds/music