Land of Strangers
| Land of Strangers | |
|---|---|
| Alpha Project | |
| Developer | Aging Minotaur |
| Theme | Wild West, Fantasy, Weird West |
| Influences | Abura Tan, GearHead, Caves of Qud, ADOM, Hoplite, PrincessRL, Ultima Ratio Regum, |
| Released | April 2nd, 2013 |
| Updated | December 1st, 2015 (v.8) |
| Licensing | GPL |
| P. Language | Python |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux |
| Interface | Graphical display, Keyboard |
| Game Length | n/a |
| Official site of Land of Strangers | |
Overview
Land of Strangers (LoSt) is a Wild West/fantasy game in early development. It is open source, written in Python and packed for Windows and Linux. The game can be downloaded from the project's blog at http://agingminotaur.blogspot.de/
The current release (#9) features the skeleton of a game, including:
- turnbased tactics on a hexagonal grid
- context-sensitive, "intuitive" controls :P
- randomized animal and plant species
- seamless overworld
- unusual rules for wounds, time/initiative, gunfighting, cover et al.
- perks and skills
- configurable
- slowly expanding weird west-setting
- more game planned for the next few releases
Inspirations
The setting of LoSt is only loosely based on historical Panamerica, mixing inspirations from Leone, Peckinpah, Kurosawa, Dead Man, El Topo, Carnivale, Deadwood, Indigenous cultures of the Americas and elsewhere, Deadlands RPG, The Place of Dead Roads, The Return of Post Apocalyptic Cowgirls, Mahabharata, Krazy Kat, Mark of the Mole, Heart of Darkness, and more.