C-evo: New Horizons 1.3.0 release

[Chronos]

I would like to announce a new release of this Linux/Lazarus port. It has matured enough after few years of development to be fully playable on both Windows and Linux.

New notable features since 1.2.0 release:
* User configurable key bindings
* Zoom-able map in three levels by mouse wheel

https://app.zdechov.net/c-evo

[funlw65]

Thank you for the link, didn't know about it!

[Roland57]

Looks very nice. Impressive work! Thank you for sharing the source code. I could compile it without any problem.

I hope I will find time to learn the rules and play the game.

[cappe]

nice, I'll try to play with it.

[Lulu]

I played and my first game ended in a game over... I am not very patient!
Thanks you to share this project !

[Chronos]

A new version 1.3.2 was released which supports High DPI screens and scale game interface according system settings.

https://app.zdechov.net/c-evo

One interesting thing about this is that C-evo as a game is pretty big project and it has a lots of hard coded user interface dimension constants so it was not as simple as scaling those constants with some scale function or LCL scaling. So I had to use different approach and I have developed scaling layer between the game and LCL called DpiControls https://app.zdechov.net/c-evo/browser/trunk/Packages/DpiControls . Thanks to that layer which contains many components like TButton, TPanel, TEdit, TForm, etc., it is possible to keep hardcoded constants and use them as points instead of pixels. With some additional bitmap handling to make precise graphics drawing, it is now possible to simply scale the game according either system settings or according to custom set DPI. So that would be another approach to add High DPI support for existing app.