[Kde-games-devel] ANNOUNCE: Boson 0.13

[Andreas Beckermann]

Release of Boson 0.13, a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game for the K Desktop 
Environment.

Most of the work since the last release has been on behind the scenes 
features, such as fixing various issues with the new cmake based build system 
(which has made our life a lot easier) and a lot of small code improvements. 
Also the groundwork of a few new features has been layed that will get used 
in a later release, but are not yet supported by the game. An example here is 
code support for radar jammers. 

The actual user-visible highlights of this release:
* New fog of war. In addition to the original fog of war that covers the whole 
terrain until it has been explored by a unit, we also have "fog" that covers 
all units that are outside the players' sight range.
* Icons for distant units: Units that are very far away from the camera 
position are replaced by a constant-size icon showing unit's type and it's 
owner's status toward you (friendly/neutral/enemy). This makes it possible to 
still recognize units that would otherwise be a small dot on the screen only.

Note that many core features are still in development and thus Boson is still 
mostly unplayable.

For a longer, though still very incomplete list see
 http://boson.eu.org/announces/changelog-0.13.php

Requirements
You can find a list of hardware and software requirements at
 http://boson.eu.org/info.php
Note that proper 3d acceleration is required.

Downloading Boson
Source packages can be found at
 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15087&release_id=451731

Installation instructions
First of all you need at least cmake 2.4.2, see
 http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.4/
Then download boson-all-0.13.tar.bz2 and follow these instructions: 
  tar xjvf boson-all-0.13.tar.bz2
  cd boson-all-0.13
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake ..
  make
  su
  make install

If you want to install at a different prefix, 
use "cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/install/boson/to .." instead of 
the "cmake .." line.
Installation instructions can also be found at
 http://boson.eu.org/install.php 

The Boson Team 
 http://boson.eu.org