Umbrarum Regnum

Umbrarum Regnum
Talkie-Talkie Project
Developer	Mingos
Theme	Fantasy
Influences	ADoM, Betrayal at Krondor, The Witcher, Neverwinter Nights
Licensing	Whiskyware
P. Language	C++
Platforms	Windows
Interface	True Colour custom ASCII set
Game Length	unknown
Official site of Umbrarum Regnum

Umbrarum Regnum is an overambitious project, probably bound to be vapourware. It initially was supposed to feature a complicated magick system, detailed and realistic combat, political and commercial interactions between different kingdoms, etc. At the moment, none of this is implemented yet. But at least it looks neat :).

The game is currently undergoing a total rewrite, since the previous code was very sloppy and barely maintainable.

Previous version features

Most important features implemented were:

• UI (True Colour ASCII console emulator powered by libtcod, written and developed by Jice)
• Multiple resolution support (from 640x480 to 1024x768)
• pregenerated overworld with different terrains and 49 settlements
• random map generators (wilderness tiles, dungeons, caves, perfect or partially braided labyrinths and towns)
• savegame read/write
• fast pathfinding
• plenty of races, professions and skills
• some monsters to fight
• very basic combat system (to be developed later)

Rewritten version features

The features that have made it to the rewrite so far are:

• UI (again libtcod is used)
• some limited interaction between the PC and the environment (mostly collision handling)
• 'l'ook command handled with the mouse
• a more advanced than before forest generator based on Perlin noise
• 2.5D maps, with two height layers (flat ground and rooftops/treetops)

To Do List

The features that are next on the TODO list are:

• monsters
• lightmaps and map shading
• more map generators