Introduce yourself

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Trilarion
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Hi Robert, nice to hear from you and thanks for the encouraging words. That motivates me. At the current level there is not much to test but I hope for many such tests in a few months when the game has progressed more. Hope to see you then.
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Dear Trilarion,

I was a huge fan of imperialism back in the day and it is really exciting to see this project. Thank you very much for putting this together.
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Hi Prospector,

Nice to see you. I hope your excitation will last for a while because we are still very much at the beginning.

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RobertRiedel
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Post by RobertRiedel »

Hi all,

i´m robert and a big fan of the imperialism games. I like them both, but also thought that some things were better in the other one, so i always dreamt of combining the best of the two together.
So i thought i might do it myself and give unity a shot, but then i have no skills with unity and googled for similar projects. so here i am.

about myself i can say that im from germany and I have some minor skills in Java and JS.

the big question is: is this project still alive?
i downloaded 0.2.1.0 and well, nothing seems to be functional, except some placeholder ui?
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Hi Robert,

Unity is surely one of the options, especially if you want to go for 3D graphics and portability. Unity has a huge community. For the current "active branch" I went for Python. One is incredibly productive with Python and can concentrate on the content and with Qt there is a decent high level 2D graphics framework too.

As for is the project still alive? Well it's not dead, but it certainly could be more alive. In the last three months I was so extremely reduced in my free time that I could do nearly nothing. I hope that changes soon. And you summarized the state of version 0.2.1 quite accurately. What keeps me from publishing another up-to-date version is that actually not much changed. The idea is to have a custom (not taken from the original because of potential copyright problems) Europe map and better map graphics. Before this isn't done, not much need to update anything.

So, all I can ask you for is your patience and maybe contribute wherever you see a chance to contribute something.

Cheers
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Hello guys. I'm alexander and I'm from Greece. I'm so happy that I see how other people like this game too and don't give up on it . Nowadays lot if people don't care about the gameplay but only for graphics . We need to show at the game industry that we need game that make us smarter not only wasting our time . Keep going people play this game it's really worth it .
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Hi Alexander, welcome. I totally agree, gameplay trumps graphics any day.
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Hi everyone,

My name is Kristian; I live in the U.S. I played Imperialism a good bit as a kid, and a couple years ago I went looking to see if anyone had started a remake since Frog City and any other copyright holders I could think of no longer exist. I found this project, and now (years later) that I've got some time and things look like they might pick up again, I figure I'll jump in and see if I can help. I'm currently in the last year of my master's program in CS, focusing on machine learning and the designer/maker applications of CS. This is my first open source project, but I'd really like to see it through, so let's go for it.
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Hi, welcome aboard. Frog City does not exist anymore, however this usually means that the copyright only belongs to someone else. Sometimes it ends up in legal limbo, but I would not count on it. Still a remake is possible as long as we do a creation of our own instead of flat out copying. Thanks for jumping in. I already saw your activity on the Github page. A focus on machine learning is a big asset, since this will come in very handy with the artificial intelligence part of the game.
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Hi! :) I'm new here. I'm a guy from Denmark who likes Imperialism (1 mostly). Anyway I have some questions:

1. Is the remake still in progress? Or is it dead?

2. What language does the remake use?

I have one question more. I remember having played more scenarios than in the vanilla game. For example, I remember something with World War 1and a scenario called "Denmark's defense" (I specifically remember that because I'm a Dane.) So does anybody know where these can be found?

PS: I called my username "Member number 59", but then I realized I'm number 56. Is it possible to get a mod to change that?
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