This is the official repo for the “Grand Strategy” mod of 0 A.D. A25.
The goal is to create a functional grand-strategy style gameplay using the campaign interface, similar to Rise of Nations's Conquer the World campaign.
My focus is a bit more limited: I want the player to control a single Hero character, that can move across the map. All actions would be executed through this hero, which would gain experience over time, unlocking stuff.
See the 'Issues' of this repository for some more information on the direction of Gameplay.
It's sort of playable, but the UI is not great™.
- Added a setup screen to choose your civilisation and starting province
- More enemies, & enemies can attack you (though you can auto-win).
- Handle difficulty less rudimentarily so AI can actually be dangerous.
- Allow scrolling around the map via the map edges.
- Add city icons to inhabited provinces.
Initial reveal - sorta playable, but not really.
art contains art files for the campaign map, which is mostly the provinces art files since for now nothing else is custom.
campaigns contains the campaign data, including root JSON file. The campaigns/grand_strategy folder is the 'history' data for the campaign, and is specific to the default campaign I ship.
gui contains the actual meat of the mod. This should be entirely re-usable for another Grand Strat map - it's just a very modded 'skin' of the regular 0 A.D. campaign UI.
tools contains Python tooling, notably the map editor in pygame and the data editor in flask.
working_data contains source art files to draw the map on.
Contributions are very welcome, however I'll reserve the right to merge things depending on whether they fit the gameplay I envision or not.
This repo, unless specified otherwise, is GPL2, like 0 A.D. - I intend to merge back some of it in the main game, though I think this repository might co-exist to make it easier for me to dev & to make it easier for other people to fork it. For details, consult LICENSE.md
A number of python tools are provided in tools/.
For convenience, you can start them with sh data_editor.sh or sh map_editor.sh.
For now, they are undocumented and somewhat prone to crashing. They are optional, though the map editor in particular makes things much easier.