C-evo
Developer(s) | Steffen Gerlach |
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Initial release | 0.0/0.1 / 21 May 1999 1.0 / 21 May 2006 |
Stable release | 1.2
/ 6 April 2013 |
Public domain software | |
Website | www |
C-evo is a free
C-evo is an
Gameplay
C-evo is an
The game starts with the development of primitive technologies such as the wheel, and ends when the first player has successfully constructed an spaceship going to outer space. As the game progresses, the player finds that the building of factories, for example, leads to increased pollution, which must be cleared up and can be stopped through development of cleaner technologies.
The setup allows the player to either choose a map or supply size and ocean-to-land ratio to have one generated randomly, and to choose how many (1 to 15) tribes – also called nations – will populate it when the game starts, as well as which intelligence will control each tribe during the game – that is, either a human player or any artificial intelligence such as Gerlach's default AI that is included with the game; alternative AIs have been designed and contributed by other programmers. A supervisor mode allows games where all tribes are controlled by artificial intelligence. Games with more than one human player can be played in hotseat mode.
Design and resources
On the C-evo webpage, the game, its
The documentation of the AI's DLL-interface is available from the project homepage. There is also an AI development kit, available in
Reception
At the 2005 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Rubén Sánchez-Pelegrín and Belén Díaz-Agudo presented a paper entitled "An Intelligent Decision Module based on CBR for C-evo", which discusses using C-evo as a platform to perform artificial intelligence research.[7] This research continued with more findings in a second paper, A CBR Module for a Strategy Videogame.[8]
See also
- List of open source games
References
- ^ cevosrc.zip on c-evo.org, Readme.txt: "This code is in the public domain"
- ^ a b "C-evo Introduction". Retrieved 2015-06-16.
- ^ Oliver Clare (2007-01-29). "Priceless Victories". Eurogamer. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
- about.com. Archived from the originalon 2013-03-26. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
- ^ Courtney Marchelletta. "Best Free Sim Games You Can Download". Archived from the original on 2021-05-10.
- ^ "C-evo". MobyGames. 2008-11-03. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
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