Tribal Trouble Resurrected a Community Revival
Hi all! A few others and I currently are working to bring a very simple but hard to master RTS game named Tribal Trouble originally released in 2004 back from the dead and bring it to Steam!
Tribal Trouble is a Java in 2004 and open sourced under the GPL2 license. It started with a contributor Omar looking into the source code and working backwards to understand and recreate the database schema and got a server up for multiplayer. Omar also created a video of himself poking through the code for the first time too!
Now we have a passionate group of people from all over the world who have joined us on discord. Since then, a few others and I have been contributing in big and small ways to bring QOL features and other integrations as well as bringing it to Steam free to play. Some new features include:
What we've added / got going:
- Ability to spectate live matches on our website
- A discord chat bot integration with slash commands
- Removed needing to register the game
- Add more players to the game
- A way to change the domain you connect to for multiplayer
- Better documentation - we've been trying to keep the game as open as possible so its easy for others to get coding or their own server going even!
- Java modernization and accessibility features - Which includes keybinds, color blindness, high visibility options, and more! All thanks to a contributor, bondolo, who had been modernizing the game for a long time! We are now in the process of adopting his fork
- Adding islands and boats to the game
- Spectate games being played in multiplayer
Happy to answer any questions about the game or how we got here! Hope to see some new faces trying out the game. Download the game from the website and play today!: https://tribaltrouble.org and wish list us on steam! Tribal Trouble: Resurrected on Steam