Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : julius Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Bianca van Schaik * URL : https://github.com/bvschaik/julius * License : AGPL-3 with non-free (third-party) assets Programming Lang: C Description : a Roman themed city-building game compatible with Caesar III
julius is a city building game in which the player manages Roman cities starting as a citizen managing building sites and water supply up to a role as caesar managing a city like Massilia with all its different classes of population, economy, entertainment and worship of the Gods. The game is a gameplay and savegame compatible clone of the 1998 Sierra game Caesar III. Playing it requires a copy of Caesar III. --- This is *the* way to play Caesar III these days; gameplay is indistinguishable (at least if it's been 20 years since you played the original) while being usable on modern systems without the resolution or platform limits of the past, and quality-wise in line with openttd or openrct2 (although AFAICT it was developed from scratch and not from decompiled binaries). As the artwork is clearly nonfree and not even distributable in nonfree, this is a case for contrib, and probably game-data-packager; innoextract can already get the files. (If anyone ITPs or wants to do the g-d-p work, I'm happy to sponsor a copy). Building the game is rather straight-forward (cmake, SDL, libpng), I figure the largest packaging effort will go into ensuring that / checking whether savegames can go into a sane location in ~ when the rest of the game files comes from whereever game-data-manager puts things. -- To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers. -- Bene Gesserit axiom
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