This is the project for Object-Oriented Programming classes at Faculty of Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology.
The idea for the game was inspired by the strategy board game of the same name with minor changes in the rules.
The program was written in C++ language with the usage of following libraries:
Also, the XML language was used to store the world information.
Information about the world (continents, regions, troops) is contained in map.xml file under resource/map/. There were number number of reasons why to use this format:
- It is easy to write a .xml file
- It is easy to modify it
- There are many C++ libraries to parse .xml files
This section explains the logic behind CMapDisplay class
One of the features is that a player would choose a region by clicking on it. Because the world map is stored as a .png file, it was necessary to deduce what region the player clicked on. It was solved by providing additional file called MAPA_INFO.png, which used Red colour channel to assign pixels to their respective regions. So, when a player clickes on the actual map, x and y position of the click is calculated into its position on the info map.
Here's the info map which was used in the game:
Another feature is that a player can move his/her army from any region to any other, provided that there's a connection between them. To determine this Dijkstra's algorithm was used.
Piotr Pokorski