New GAME

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comment to OpenSun: I wrote a **small** YR-like engine that could display small (flatland) maps and you could build buildings by pressing keys and change house colors etc when OpenSun didn't even have a trace of a concept yet.
it might not be dead, but they'll never get started.

don't talk about "how about making our own community C&C", simply DO IT and make a start!
just a suggestion...

my engine was based on SDL and pretty badly coded (I could do much better in much less time by now, I made that clone half a year ago or something like that), so I didn't release it.
if anyone's interested, however, I might give it out.

EDIT:
Nah, before anyone thinks I'm talking crap here, here's the MSVC++6 project with all the SDL libraries and stuff:
http://rtb.strategy-x.com/yr_clone.rar

warning: bad c++ coding.
you probably can't make any use of it but who cares.

and don't ask me why there's an error after you close it, I really dunno, probably because of the bad coding.

here's the key functions:
[ESC] - quit

[1] to [8] I think: change player (you see your currentcolor in the top right corner)
[Q] to [I]: build a tech center (can't recall why it's just tech centres I know you could place others once)
[A] to [K]: damage tech center (yep, damaging works!! no fire though)

selling works like in the original game. click the sell button on the sidebar and click on your building (blue player can sell the blue tech center only etc)

[arrow keys]: scroll map

don't be surprised if the "game" crashes randomly, again no idea why, again it's probably the bad coding's fault

but anyway, the point of all this is to warn you that you shouldn't start discussing over everything and never get started, but simply do something and make it open source.
you see, if I was a better coder back in those days and that engine would actually be good, we might be close to a community c&c already.
if I began discussions over it, we might still be discussing without anything useful having been done... like OpenSun