C-evo: New Horizons

[chronoscz]

C-evo: New Horizons is a turn-based empire building strategy game inspired by Civilization II game.
It is a fork and Lazarus/FPC port of the original C-evo game which can be found at www.c-evo.org.
It is a free & open source game (FOSS). The source code is available with public domain license. You can freely download and modify/improve it.

Notable features:

• All from the original game C-evo 1.2.0
• Supported platforms: Windows and Linux
• Supported architectures: 32-bit and 64-bit x86, 64-bit ARM
• Localizations included: Czech, German, Italian, Russian, French, Chinese Simplified and Traditional
• Graphics files converted from BMP to PNG
• Game text files .txt converted to UTF-8 encoding
• Removed external Configurator application written in C#/.NET. Used in-game configuration interface.
• Used latest available Delphi StdAI.
• Added installer scripts for Windows, Ubuntu/Debian, Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Linux and Ubuntu snap.
• Design time components converted to Lazarus package (CevoComponents.lpk)
• User configurable key bindings/mappings
• Zoom-able map in three levels by mouse wheel
• High DPI screens scaling support
• Multi monitor support

Homepage: https://app.zdechov.net/c-evo
You can download there the latest version 1.3.6 for various platforms.

It is also available for download from other places:

• Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/net.zdechov.app.C-evo
• Snap Store: https://snapcraft.io/c-evo
• SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo-new-horizons/
• LaunchPad: https://launchpad.net/c-evo/
• Itch.io: https://chronoscz.itch.io/c-evo
• Game Jolt: https://gamejolt.com/games/c-evo/926621
• Lutris: https://lutris.net/games/c-evo-new-horizons/
• PortableApps: https://portableapps.com/node/71833

Screenshots from the game:

 

[Blake00]

Hi Chrono, good to see you here promoting your version of C-evo here too (note to others: Peter & Chrono are working on different variants so Peter's thread here is for a different version).

 

[chronoscz]

A new version 1.3.7 has been released.

Changes since previous version:
* Added: AppImage packaging files.
* Added: AI upscaled C-evo icon to 1024x1024 resolution.
* Modified: Improved brains libraries enumeration.
* Modified: Detect data files usr/share/c-evo directory on Linux as relative directory to usr/bin directory.
* Modified: Updated french translation.
* Modified: Used larger icon for the executable.
* Fixed: Recalculate unit list size if the main window was resized.
* Fixed: Do not scroll map if mouse is outside of window region.
* Fixed: Restored background transparency in C-evo icons.
* Fixed: Invalidated rectangle in AI tournament was not properly scaled.
* Fixed: Log and AI tournament windows were not shown correctly.

There is now Linux AppImage available: https://svn.zdechov.net/c-evo/bin/appimage/C-evo-nh-1.3.7-x86_64.AppImage

 

[chronoscz]

A new version 1.3.8 has been released.

Changes since previous version:
* Added: Ability to play music in background in start screen and in-game. Used uos as audio library.
* Added: Allow to switch music on/off from game window main menu.
* Added: Music volume option in game settings form.
* Added: Package Music files with option to not install them.
* Added: Allow to move with up, down, page up, page down, home and end keys in selection dialog.
* Added: Open product selection dialog with P key in city dialog.
* Added: Close city dialog with return key.
* Modified: Improved forms painting if resized to bigger dimensions.
* Modified: Auto select newly saved game as last game in previous games list.
* Modified: Generate only single Windows installer with support for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
* Modified: If C-evo installed on Windows as 64-bit, then optionally install also 32-bit C-evo with 32-bit AIs.
* Modified: Load additional AIs on Windows only if executed with 32-bit process.
* Modified: Evaluate Escape key in Settings dialog.
* Fixed: World size was always set to minimum on start.
* Fixed: Wrong AI brain selection if only one AI available.
* Fixed: Make selected book or map visible in the list on application start.
* Fixed: Repaint start window after language change in settings window.
* Fixed: Fixed unit move style hostile calculation in StdAI. Engineers don't take hostile damage on hostile terrain.
* Fixed: Do not process keyboard input during unit attack on Linux.
* Fixed: Limit world size loaded from registry.
* Fixed: Images in Help window were not found if located under share directory.
* Fixed: Black strip on the bottom of Draft dialog.

 

[Blake00]

Oooooh music! Nice!