Starting a New Game

Atlantis is a command line program, all the examples here are meant to run on the command line.

1. Create a directory for your new game (you'll probably want all your games in one place, and you'll need to execute the Atlantis program a lot, so it's recommended to create a directory under the atlantis build area)

   % mkdir MyGame

2. Make a directory for the first turn (it's recommended to keep each turn in its own directory)

   % cd MyGame; mkdir turn0; cd turn0

3. When you create a new game, you can specify the random seed. Using the same seed will create the same map (useful for testing)

   % ../../ceran.exe new 1234

   Atlantis Engine Version: 4.1.0

   Ceran, Version: 2.0.4 (beta)

   How wide should the map be?

   32

   How tall should the map be?

   32

4. The game will print the engine version (4.1.0) and rules version (Ceran, 2.0.4). It will then ask for the width and height of the map. The numbers must be a multiple of 8 (because underground levels can halve the value, and there are 3 types of them :)) It will then print out the various stages of world creation.

5. The current directory will then have "game.out" and "players.out". Each turn, you'll need to copy these to "game.in" and "players.in" (usually in a new directory). There's a script to do this in scripts/nextTurn.tcl - run it in the main game directory (it will find the highest number "turn*" directory, make the next one, and copy in the files)

   % cd ..; ../../scripts/nextTurn.tcl; cd turn1

6. Add the first set of players (see the pending instructions) to "players.in", then generate the first effective turn ("report.3" is the first human player, "report.4" is the second, etc.)

   % echo Faction: New >> players.in

   % echo Name: Testers >> players.in

   % ../../ceran.exe run

7. When the players finish their turns, make a new directory for the next turn, copy in the orders.N files and generate the next turn

   % cd ~/atlantis/ceran/MyGame

   % ../../scripts/nextTurn.tcl

   % cd turn2

   % cp ~/Downloads/orders.3 .

   % ../../ceran.exe run

8. Repeat until the game ends!