by Jason Merlo (3 Submissions)
Category: Games
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(39 Votes)
LandMass is based on the old Commodore 64 game "Lords of Conquest" by Electronic Arts. This game played a little bit like the board game Risk, only there were different playing pieces and --here's the cool part-- the playfield was generated randomly, so that no two games were the same.
As it stands right now, LandMass simply generates a random world based on settings that you can tune. Each world is composed of countries and water. Countries that border each other are shown with a borderline between them. Each country has properties that can be read, such as its color or which other countries border it. LandMass also contains a small example of how to read map parameters and interact with the map.
The program is class-based, which means you can take the Map class and drop it into your own program. And since each map is a separate object, you can generate multiple maps at once. With very little work you can have cool custom maps in your own program!
Inputs
None.
Assumes
None. Code will run as is.
Code Returns
None. Just a cool map!
Side Effects
None known.
API DeclarationsJust the standard BitBlt stuff. This is included in the zip.
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