Dukedom (video game)

Dukedom
Dukedom
Developer(s)	Vince Talbot
Platform(s)	PL/1, Personal computer
Release	1976
Genre(s)	Turn-based strategy

Last updated November 09, 2019

Dukedom is a turn-based strategy text-based video game about land management and was created as an expanded version of Hamurabi .

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Gameplay

The player is one of several Dukes chosen by the High King to help run the Kingdom. Their Duchy is not in the best of shape, the gameplay goal is to build up its population, land holdings, and grain reserves, ultimately hoping to become powerful enough to overthrow the High King.

The player has to manage their duchy, while paying taxes and sending, on occasion, peasants to the King's service, undergoing epidemics, locusts and rival lords secretly helped by the High King; they can buy and sell land, itself divided in several categories depending on fertility, and engaging in offensive or defensive warfare, sending both subjects and mercenaries against the enemy and winning land and grain.

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Development

Dukedom was written in PL/I D by Vince Talbot in 1976 as an expanded version of Kingdom, which itself is an expanded version of Hamurabi . The game was rewritten (with extensive revision) in I.T.S. EXBASIC by Jamie E. Hanrahan. It was adapted for /GAMES/ by David C. Barber. It was re-written from I.T.S. EXBASIC to Hewlett-Packard level F BASIC then to DEC RSTS/E BASIC-PLUS.^[1]

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The game was converted to Microsoft BASIC by Richard A. Kaapke. The BASIC version appeared in Creative Computing in February 1980 and was republished in Big Computer Games (1984).^[2]

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A Small Basic version called Dukedom Small Basic Version exists in source code form on CodePlex.^{[ citation needed ]}

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A complete Python version is also available on GitHub.^[3]

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References

↑ "CodePlex Archive". CodePlex Archive.
↑ "Big Computer Games: Dukedom - Challenging land management game". www.atariarchives.org.
↑ "retro/dukedom". GitHub . Retrieved November 29, 2014.
↑ Leon. "Back to BASICs". Leon's Web Pages. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
↑ "Manor". MMReference. Retrieved November 29, 2014.

External links

1984 Big Computer Games edited by David H. Ahl

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[1] "CodePlex Archive". CodePlex Archive.

[2] "Big Computer Games: Dukedom - Challenging land management game". www.atariarchives.org.

[3] "retro/dukedom". GitHub . Retrieved November 29, 2014.

[4] Leon. "Back to BASICs". Leon's Web Pages. Retrieved November 29, 2014.

[5] "Manor". MMReference. Retrieved November 29, 2014.