Another personal project of mine is a clone of Banyon Wars, a DOS game from 1990, in Java. I started this project to learn about creating effective turn-based games. I also wanted to expand from the one original level to a potentially infinite, user-created set by use of an external map making program. My progress on this program is shown below. The user specifies an image and then can click within a white shape to define a province and those provinces are saved as PNGs. The next step is to add a geography and terrain tool in order to customize the content of the defined provinces.
Specify Province
Clicking on a white space will place all contiguous pixels of that color into a “province” PNG and print a description to the console.
Province PNG Repository
The Program deposits all province PNGs in one directory. The color of the provinces can be customized in the selection program.
Alex Magee 