The second drop for Passage to the Indies is ready. Simply click on the link below to download the .zip file. Then run the setup.exe within to install Passage to the Indies. You’ll need to use the Control Panel to remove it, however.
Passage to the Indies download
The explorer has made landfall and is heading into the mountains
From the previous drop’s note, my intention for this drop was “…adding rivers, sailing to and from Europe (the right side of the map), and some (at least rudimentary) random land form generation.” I accomplished all of that and more.
- Randomly generated land forms including rivers
- Sailing (including to and from Europe represented by the right edge of the map)
- Zooming in and out of the map to get a wider view
- Rivers block passage (except for the river’s source, which can be walked around)
- New hex-based presentation
- New icon for the player on foot and at sea
- Percentage display for discovery and fame credit
There is an issue in that the icon for the player at sea (a boat) always faces left. I’ll fix that soon enough, just wasn’t that important.
For the next drop I’d like to accomplish the following:
- Terrain assigned according to biome rules
- Creation of “points of interest” (river sources, vast forests, etc.) for additional fame gain
- Introduction of men, goods, and gold (at least) to the player state
- Natives, perhaps
I look forward to your feedback in the Quarter to Three thread! And if you see something wrong with a map note the row, column, and seed (all displayed in the lower left of the screen) so I can reproduce it. Thanks!