Hello, there!
As some of you might know, the upcoming release of Planeshift will feature a chess-like game!
Of course I wanted to play that game, but I found out 10 of the 14 pieces were not available in CVS art
It's then that I decided to make some pieces myself, and I came up with this "Battle of the Browsers" mod!
The rules of the game:
-White pieces consist of Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Safari, Epiphany, Konqueror and Camino. All of these pieces can move as far as they want in any direction, like Queens.
-Black pieces consist of Internet Explorer, all IE pieces are pawns and can generally do nothing but move forward once every 10 turns.\
-White always begins.
-White has to kill al IE pieces, you can kill a piece by placing a white piece on top off an IE piece.
-Black cheats a lot, but still always loses.
You can see a battle-in-progress
here, note IE's fear of the white team.
You may dowload the mod
hereInstallation manual:
For users of the upcoming release:
-Go to the main Planeshift folder
-Go to Planeshift\art\skins\base\
-Replace the client_base.zip there with the client_base from my mod
-Play!
For users of HEAD CVS:
-Do the same thing as described above
-Copy over the \data\GUI folder from CVS over the \data\GUI folder you actually use, it needs some extra xml's which are in \GUI\.
-Go to the tenth box near the ramp in Npcroom, right-click it, click on the hand.
-Play!
Hey, that mod is great, but now I want my normal pieces back!
Easy, just do this:
-Open up planeshift\art\skins\base\client_base.zip
-Extract the imagelist.xml file to your desktop
-Open up the imagelist.xml file
-Scroll the the bottom
-There's a part in the file which you have to comment and another part which you have to uncomment, it's all explained inside the file.
-Save the file
-Copy the file back to client_base.zip
-Done!
Thanks go to:
Enar Vaikene aka Bereror for making the minigame and for showing me how to get it to work.
Google for getting me those nice browser icons.
Rolenun for getting me that Opera icon I was too lazy to find (it was hard to get you know).
Induane for hosting said Opera icon.
Illori for being annoying on IRC all the time
Lanarel and Bastiq for liking my mod.
All others who like my mod.
That person I forgot.
update:
Edited the file so it now includes the newly released pieces and you can now reset to the normal pieces again.
warning:
The chess game is on Laanx right now, at an undisclosed location. Try to find it!So..
Have fun!
