Dukedom (game)
| Dukedom | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Vince Talbot |
| Release date(s) | 1976 |
| Genre(s) | Turn-based strategy |
Dukedom is a turn-based strategy computer game about land management and was created as an expanded version of Hamurabi.
History
Dukedom was originally written in PL/I D by Vince Talbot in 1976 as an expanded version of Kingdom, which itself is an expanded version of Hamurabi. The game was rewritten (with extensive revision) in I.T.S. EXBASIC by Jamie E. Hanrahan. It was adapted for /GAMES/ by David C. Barber. It was re-written from I.T.S. EXBASIC to Hewlett-Packard level F BASIC then to DEC RSTS/E BASIC-PLUS.[1]
The game was converted to Microsoft BASIC by Richard A. Kaapke. The BASIC version appeared in Creative Computing in February 1980 and was republished in Big Computer Games (1984).[2]
Premise
You are one of several Dukes chosen by the High King to help run the Kingdom. Your Duchy is not in the best of shape, and your job is to build up its population, land holdings, and grain reserves. Your secret ambition is to become powerful enough to overthrow the High King.
The player has to manage his duchy, while paying taxes and sending, on occasion, peasants to the King's service, undergoing epidemics, locusts and rival lords secretly helped by the High King; he can buy and sell land, itself divided in several categories depending on fertility, and engaging in offensive or defensive warfare, sending both subjects and mercenaries against the enemy and winning land and grain.
Variations
A Small Basic version called 'Dukedom Small Basic Version' exists in source form on CodePlex.
A more complete Python version is also available on GitHub.[3]
It inspired the game Manor, which purported to be more historically accurate.[4][5]
References
- ↑ http://dukedomsbv.codeplex.com/documentation
- ↑ http://www.atariarchives.org/bigcomputergames/showpage.php?page=11
- ↑ "retro/dukedom". GitHub. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
- ↑ Leon. "Back to BASICs". Leon's Web Pages. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
- ↑ "Manor". MMReference. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
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Internal references
External links
- 1984 Big Computer Games edited by David H. Ahl