#bellum populorum

War of the tribes

Bellum populorum (war of the tribes/peoples) is an opensource software project made for school. It aims to simulate a dynamic process - in this case the development and competition of different ancient peoples. On a (pseudo-) randomly generated map the peoples are generated and then gather resources and food to grow and to gain supremacy. A simulation might end when there is either no opponent or no space/food left. The peoples will have slight differences in behavior and their ability to handle the situation they are facing.

Planned features

• Three different peoples
• Artificial Intelligence
• Randomly generated maps
• Support for multiple (simultaneous) simulations
• Great 8-Bit graphics (like good old times on Amiga ;))
• Tools to manipulate the simulation in some ways
• statistics

Installation

Linux

You will have to build bellum populorum from source. Go to any directory on your system and use the following commands to build the programme. (Free Pascal Compiler and Lazarus IDE are required)

git clone https://github.com/comradephilos/bellum-populorum
cd bellum-populorum
lazbuild -B simulation.lpi

Afterwards you will find an executable in the "bin"-folder. Make sure it is marked as executable. You can also open the simulation.lpi-file with Lazarus to edit and/or compile the project.

Windows

Download Lazarus IDE from the official website. Open the simulation.lpi-file and edit and/or compile the project.

Peoples

There will be 3 different peoples. Their behavior and abilities might not be final, the list might get extended later. Here are just some thoughts to make the simulation a bit more interesting:

Romans

Romans are well organized and highly developed. They are very well trained and because of that have a strong army. But quality does not often come cheap.

Slavonics

In contrast to the Romans the Slavonics don't have a really strong army or sophisticated equipment. But they are able to outnumber their opponents. They grow fast and stick together.

Germans

The Germans will have both bonuses that Romans and Slavonics have. They are not as well equipped as Romans and not as many as the Slavonics.

multiple window support:

single window: