Beasts and Bumpkins
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Beasts and Bumpkins is a 1997
real-time strategy
video game. It was developed by Worldweaver Productions and published by Electronic Arts
for Microsoft Windows
.
In the game's storyline, the player was exiled by the king. They begin with limited resources and a few peasants to control. After building an empire and increasing their resources, the player can challenge Dark Lord Sabellian, who attacks the surrounding area.
The game is a standard isometric
'god' style game
. The player's goal is to complete a specific task on each level, be that collect a scroll or kill a certain bad guy. The main focus of the game is building up their village and growing their community.
During the game villagers simulate a life to death experience, from birth they go to childhood to a working adult after which comes their retirement and then eventually death. The working women do only the farm work and reproduce the population, while the working males can be given harder labour such as building or training at the various guilds which gives them new working skills to help them advance your village.
Starting with only a couple of houses, the player may soon build everything from farms to guilds, deploying the populous to perform various tasks, such as collecting water, farming or even procreation.
The game was well-known for its humor. All of the characters had a stereotypical English West Country accent. The true hilarity came from the villagers sound bytes including "Fancy a bit of nookie?" and "oww, yes please!" responses.
Confirmed working on XP SP3 providing the game installer is run in '98 compatibility mode to c:\beasts otherwise the installer truncates filenames when written to the registry. The main game executable should also be run in compatibility mode.
1997 in video gaming
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real-time strategy
Real-time strategy
Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....
video game. It was developed by Worldweaver Productions and published by Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...
for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
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In the game's storyline, the player was exiled by the king. They begin with limited resources and a few peasants to control. After building an empire and increasing their resources, the player can challenge Dark Lord Sabellian, who attacks the surrounding area.
The game is a standard isometric
Video games with isometric graphics
In video games, "isometric" refers to some form of parallel projection where the viewpoint is rotated slightly to reveal other facets of the game environment than are visible from a top-down perspective or side view, thereby producing a three-dimensional effect...
'god' style game
God game
A god game is an artificial life game that casts the player in the position of controlling the game on a large scale, as an entity with divine/supernatural powers, as a great leader, or with no specified character , and places them in charge of a game setting containing autonomous characters to...
. The player's goal is to complete a specific task on each level, be that collect a scroll or kill a certain bad guy. The main focus of the game is building up their village and growing their community.
During the game villagers simulate a life to death experience, from birth they go to childhood to a working adult after which comes their retirement and then eventually death. The working women do only the farm work and reproduce the population, while the working males can be given harder labour such as building or training at the various guilds which gives them new working skills to help them advance your village.
Starting with only a couple of houses, the player may soon build everything from farms to guilds, deploying the populous to perform various tasks, such as collecting water, farming or even procreation.
The game was well-known for its humor. All of the characters had a stereotypical English West Country accent. The true hilarity came from the villagers sound bytes including "Fancy a bit of nookie?" and "oww, yes please!" responses.
Confirmed working on XP SP3 providing the game installer is run in '98 compatibility mode to c:\beasts otherwise the installer truncates filenames when written to the registry. The main game executable should also be run in compatibility mode.