University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. April 30, 1991
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Pittsburg professor writes a new game
The Associated Press
PITTSBURG — Nine hundred years of history melt away when students sit down at computers to play computer games. Pittsburgh State University professor.
The computer game, "Medieval Lords — Soldier Kings of Europe," was written to teach the political, tactical and financial aspects of the Age provinces, said the the game's creator, professor Martin Campion.
"I want (the students) to learn something about the conditions of the Middle Ages and some of the things that helped to determine the success and failure of states in the Middle Ages," Campion says. The game also lessons (lessons about European geography during the period 1028-1530.
At the same time, he acknowled-
s that the war is attracted to
the war games aspect of his
His first program, "Rails West," "a game about the railroad roads"
Campion says he started programming "Medieval Lords" about three years ago. He shows a printout 3 years later of the game's command commands, which is the source
program for the IBM-compatible PC version.
Up to 10 players can play the game at one time. They choose to be different characters in the game.
Players can be an adviser to a sultan, khan, emir, count, duke or king.
Europe and the Middle East are divided into 159 provinces and collections of provinces called domains.
"They all have different aims than the king does," Campion explains. Players keep track of such factors as their own loyalty to the nobles in each province.
The status of the player is measured in the gain or loss of points through the capture of territory and winning of battles.
“Declaring war doesn't cost anything, but if you're going to want to fight it, you’re going to have to raise an army, and an army costs.” “Campion says. ‘It’s very easy to go bankrupt in the course of fighting a war if you haven’t spent a whole lot of time training your soldiers up your towns, who supply money, or building up your nobles, who supply cheaper troops, or both.”
Campion is already turning his attention and his programming skills to new computer games, including one about ancient history
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