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Immortal Barons is a turn-based strategy game for the terminal. You rule
a barony in a ruined, post-apocalyptic world. You buy land, feed your
people, build an army, and fight rival empires. The goal is to have the
highest net worth when the turns run out, or to conquer everyone else.
Play it as a door on a BBS, over SSH on a server that offers it, or on
your own machine.

The game is written in Go. It is an independent remake, inspired by the
1990s BBS door game Barren Realms Elite, and is not affiliated with or
endorsed by its authors.

Two programs are installed in /usr/games: immortal-barons, the game
itself, and barons-ftn, an optional helper that moves inter-BBS packets
over FidoNet transport. A board that does not join a league needs only
the game.

Requires google-go-lang from SlackBuilds.org. Stock Slackware's
/usr/bin/go is gccgo, which builds the Go 1.16 language and cannot
compile this; the build script uses google-go-lang's toolchain instead,
whether or not the shell has read /etc/profile.d/go.sh.

The source archive is upstream's vendored release tarball, so the build
downloads nothing.

Sysops: the game keeps its world in a data directory of its own choosing
(-data, default ./data), and the BBS points it at a dropfile. See
docs/door-setup.md in the package's doc directory for the door
configuration, and docs/inter-bbs.md for joining a league.

Build options:
  TEST=yes   Run the Go test suite during the build and save the results
             into the package's doc directory as test_results.txt.
             Default: no.

This requires: google-go-lang

Maintained by: Andy Alt
Keywords: immortal,barons
ChangeLog: immortal-barons