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Knights Province Alpha 1
Brought to you by Krom and Lewin
Readme contents:
Description ·
System requirements ·
Installing ·
Gameplay ·
F.A.Q. ·
Known bugs ·
Feedback ·
Credits ·
Legal notice
Knights Province is a Real-Time Startegy game (RTS) focused around city-building and resource management. With the Knights Province our goal is to bring classic RTS gameplay into modern world. We have written the Knights Province engine from scratch. The Knights Province is built using: Delphi XE3+, OpenGL, OpenAL, Overbyte ICS, PNGImage, zLib, MadExcept, libZPlay.
Knights Province requires:
- Microsoft Windows XP or higher;
- 1 GHz CPU or faster;
- 512MB RAM;
- 3D graphics accelerator OpenGL 2.1 compliant;
- Sound card.
- Network connection for multiplayer.
1. Unpack the archive contents into a new folder.
2. Install the OpenAL audio drivers (oalinst.exe) if they are not already present. The latest version can be found on the official OpenAL page:
http://www.openal.org/downloads/
3. Knights Province uses the OpenGL rendering engine, so you need to have OpenGL drivers installed as well. Visit your graphics card manufacturer site to get the latest drivers available.
4. Launch the game - KnightsProvince.exe
The following shortcuts are available in the game:
Esc closes the open message or active tab in the game menu
F1-F4 opens corresponding tab in the gameplay menu
F5-F8 speeds up the game pace by x1 - x10
F11 will show debugging panel and menu
1-9 will select units or houses assigned to with Ctrl + 1-9 keys
B will place a beacon on map that your allies can see
P pauses the game
T while pressed will show teamnames over units in multiplayer
Spacebar goes to the location of the open message in game
←↑→↓ cursor keys will move you around the map
Scrolling the Mouse wheel will zoom in and out
← backspace will reset zoom back to 100%
Silent crashes:
If the Knights Province crashes silently during startup please send the log file to contact@knightsprovince.com along with any other information that might be of use.
Low framerate:
If you have ridiculously low framerate in game it might be because your OpenGL drivers are out of date. See the OpenGL version information in the top-left corner of the main menu, it should be at least 1.4.x. If it is less you need to update your graphics card drivers (check your card manufacturers website).
Game errors:
Sometimes when something unexpected happens you will get an "An error has occurred in the application" message. Please click the Send Bug Report button to send the crash report to us. Enter your name and email address in the form if you would like us to be able to contact you about the crash. Having the crash report will help us to fix the bug.
There are plenty.
The project is in a alpha stage. Please use email, Skype, devblog or other communication to give us feedback. We would love your comments, suggestions, compliments, etc.
If you can offer some help in Delphi coding, menu design, documentation, graphics, sounds, translation or ideas for improvement - please drop us an email or write on the forum.
Lead programmer - Krom (kromster80@gmail.com)
Programmer - Lewin (lewinjh@gmail.com)
Thanks to Alex who introduced the core design back in 2008
Additional credits are in the game, Credits menu.
The game comes under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ).
Any used names, symbols or other copyrighted material is the property of the respective owners.
We do not take any responsibility if the game harms your software and/or hardware.
Distribution of the game in any form is not allowed without this readme file.
You can upload the game mod to your site/server/homepage, but please let us know first.
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