[kidsgames] OT: Seeing the insides of a commercial game.

[Thomas Hudson <thudson@cygnus.com>]

I just completed participating in LokiHack '99 
(http://www.lokigames.com/hack/), where a handful
of developers were given the chance to hack on the
code to Civilation:Call to Power.

Loki Games ported this app from windows, and it's 
interesting to see how they did this. They used
Simple DirectMedia Layer (http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/),
and have a few replacements for win32 calls. 

CivCTP code was interesting to study, and gave me quite a few
ideas for a generic simulation engine. I think something 
like this would be useful even in educational games.
If it could be completely data driven, it might provide
a way for non-programmers to build content.

Thomas (in need of sleep...)
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