Avant de lire cette page, voir Téléchargement et Installation pour savoir comment obtenir et installer Globulation 2.
Réglages de configuration
Une fois que vous avez correctement installé le jeu, lancez-le et cliquez sur Paramètres dans le menu principal. Cela vous permet d'adapter le fonctionnement de Globulation 2 à votre ordinateur. Vous pouvez :
- sélectionner la langue dans laquelle le programme affichera les messages et les menus. Globulation 2 est actuellement disponible dans 9 langues. Si vous voulez aider à traduire Globulation 2 dans votre langue, voir le guide de traduction
- sélectionner si vous voulez jouer en mode plein écran ou en mode fenêtre. (dans ce guide, il sera supposé que vous jouez en mode plein écran donc si le guide dit "écran" et que vous jouez en mode fenêtre, vous n'aurez qu'à penser "fenêtre" à la place ;-)
- sélectionner ladimension de la fenêtre/résolution de l'écran. Globulation 2 les résolutions standarts comme 640x480, 800x600, 832x624, 1024x768, 1280x1024, etc. (si vous avez des problème de vitesse, essayez avec une résolution plus basse)
- Plusieurs options pour améliorer la vitesse du jeu : graphismes moins précis, OpenGL activé/désactivé. Au moment où nous écrivons ces lignes, Debian Linux fournit une version de Globulation 2 avec OpenGl qui ne marche pas - Les utilisateurs de Debian devront donc désactiver OpenGl ou the debs we provide or the source.
- choose your username; the username allows you to be known by others; the online registration allows a free and password protected way to register your online username
- you can also set the music volume of the game
- Some day, you might want to try tweaking the rules of Globulation 2 by editing files in Glob2's data folder. This guide assumes you are using the standard data files.
Création de cartes
L'éditeur de carte est de bonne qualité et facile à utiliser. Les cartes peuvent mesurer de 64x64 à 512x512 (pour l'instant, plus grand que 512x512 n'est pas autorisé, et le jeu est encore lent sur de telles cartes, mais il sera surement un peu accéléré dans la première version officielle). Pour savoir comment éditer des cartes, voir le guide d'édition de cartes.
Gestion des parties
Comment commencer/charger/sauvegarder une partie locale, LAN ou en ligne :
- Jouer pour la première fois : le meilleur moyen de débuter est de choisir le didactitiel. Il explique les bases du jeu. Vous n'avez qu'à suivre les messages qui apparaissent en haut à gauche de votre écran.
- Jouer à une campagne : Pour l'instant, seule la campagne courte mais amusante "Joey" n'est disponible. Créer une nouvelle campagne est assez simple (voir le guide d'édition de cartes), nous serons très contents d'en avoir plus !
- Jouer à un jeu personnalisé : choisissez Jeu libre dans le menu principal. Vous pouvez maintenant choisir une carte. Si vous ne savez pas laquelle chosir, cliquez sur Easy Three puis sur OK.
- Jouer à une partie sauvegardé : continuez une partie sauvegardé en sélectionnant "Charger jeu" dans le menu principal.
Understanding the game (and strategy)
Inside a game of globulation 2
Your screen is divided into:
- a thin top line that shows information about the game
- a mini map in the right upper corner, that you can click on to jump directly to that area
- a little circle left of the mini map that allows access to the game menu, from where you can save the game, make alliances, change in-game options, etc...
Top line of the screen
The top line of your screen shows various information about the game:
- The three left-most items show the number of workers, explorers, and warriors you have free, and the number you have in total. If the number of free globules falls below zero, you have more work assigned than globules available.
- The next item is a measure of the prestige status in the game. The prestige system hasn't been fully worked out yet, and can be safely ignored for now.
- The next item is the number of globs that have converted to and from your team. Globs can be enticed to convert to different teams if the enemy offers a wider variety of fruits at their inns.
- The final item is a red bar representing the amount of work your computer's processor is being asked to do. The first white line represents 0% processor usage, the second line represents 100%. If the bar crosses the 100% boundary, your processor is being overloaded. This causes the game to slow down and become less responsive.
Buildings
Construction cost
When in the building panel on the right side of the screen, you see thumbnails of buildings. Hover over those thumbnails to see more details about construction costs.
Destroy, upgrade, and repair buildings
Click on a building. There is a "destroy" button at the bottom right of your screen. Click it to delete building. If you can, there will be an Upgrade button just above the Destroy button. When a building is damaged, you will also see a Repair button which asks your creatures to repair the bilding.
"Points"
On each side Inn/Swarm, there is a column of black dots :
- The left one indicates how much wheat is in your Inn/Swarm.
- The right one indicates how many globuls are inside (true for other buildings as well). It tells you how many globuls are eating (for the Inn), how many warriors are training (training camp) etc.
Description of buildings
There are many type of buildings documented on the buildings page page.
Units
Gathering information on units
- Food, hit points: Besides your swarm, there should also be creatures of the same color in your main window. There are a blue and a green bar under each creature. The blue bar shows how much food the creature has left, and the green one indicates its hit points (or life points). If the blue bar is empty, your creature is starving, and its hitpoints will decrease.
- Other informations: Click on one of your creatures. It is probably a worker. On the right side of your screen you can now see how hungry and healthy it is, what it is carrying, and how good its abilities are.
- Other statistics and information on your units can be seen if you choose the section number four at right under your map. These are detailed informations on health and many others.
No orders!
You cannot give any kind of orders to your creatures. This is done indirectly through your buildings and flags. You can use the t key to show/hide the path to the current target of the selected unit.
The creatures
Other units besides the Workers 
are the Warriors 
and the Explorers 
.
- The Warriors can attack other land creatures and structures; they can be improved via the training camp, the pool, and the running court. They can be recognized as the units with big arms.
- The Explorers will keep your map up to date and show you live units that are within their sight. They can attack other flying objects and when they've been through a school of level 3, they can attack ground creatures and structures. They can be recognized as the flying units.
- All creatures eat in inns, they will each take one fruit of each available variety and one unit of wheat. Their satisfaction level will depend on the fruits they had (from 0 to 3) and will determine wether they are attracted to the ennemy's inns.
Alliances
Il existe quatre niveaux d'alliance :
- allié et vue partagée
- voir les marchés pour pouvoir échanger des fruits
- voir les auberges pour que les unités ennemies soient peut-être converties
- ne rien voir
Quand vous vous alliez avec quelqu'un, il n'y aura plus de combat entre vous.
Victory
Except with a few maps that specify particular conditions for victory, there are three basic ways of winning in Globulation 2:
- Convert all of your enemy's globs to your team by using fruits.
- Reaching the prestige limit before anyone else
In practice, most games are won through a combination of the first two, while the last (prestige) is only used when stalemate has long been reached.
Raccourcis claviers
- La barre d'espace permet d'aller à l'endroit ou s'est produit le dernier événement
- Le maintien de la touche 'a' enfoncé montre à quelle équipe appartiens chaque unités ou batiments
- La touche 't' permet de visualiser la cible vers laquelle chacune de vos unités se dirige
- La touche 'Echap' affiche le menu de jeux
- La touche 'p' met le jeux en pose
- La touche 'u' améliore un bâtiment et 'r' le répare
- La touche 'd' détruit un bâtiment ou un drapeau. Soyez prudent, on ne vous demandera pas si vous êtes sur de votre choix
- Quant un bâtiment est sélectionné, vous pouvez appuyer sur 'TAB' pour circuler entre les bâtiments de même type
- Quant un bâtiment est sélectionné, vous pouvez augmenter ou diminuer le nombre de travailleurs qui lui sont assigné avec les touche '+' et '-'
- La touche 'h' montre ou cache l'historique
- Les touches fléchées permettent de déplacer la vue
Got lost? Example of a simple game
Buildings you place first in order:
These are all the steps regarding the buildings you will construct:
- you should always have a Swarm when you begin a game. If not, you can build it later, since your first priority is to build an Inn or two. Your creatures will get hungry, the Inn will provide them with food. Don't forget to assign enough workers to the Inn after it is finished (depends on how far away your wheat field is);
- The swarm allows you to build more units, and, depending on how many units you want, you should build one, two, or maybe even three swarms. Look at how much food you have to decide how many units you can maintain. In this game having more units is not always better. Units that are hungry will certainly die very fast.
- Build a hospital: It is easy to build and it is the only way for your units to recover hitpoints;
- Barracks will improve the strength of Warriors, a Racetrack is needed if you want your units to move faster on the ground, and a Swimming Pool will allow your units to move through water. Depending on your priorities, now decide to build one of these three buildings.
- Upgrading your buildings vastly improves their effectiveness. But to do so, you need a School. To build a School, your creatures need to be able to swim, so that they can collect the Algae. Therefore, we must build a Swimming Pool first. When it is finished, place a School.
- Other useful structures to have are the Defense Tower and the Wall. A defense tower surrounded by or on the other side of a wall is especially hard for the enemy to destroy, and low-level warriors won't be able to do much damage to a defense tower anyway (but they can kill workers assigned to it, causing it to run out of ammunition). Walls can also keep resources from growing in annoying places and can isolate resources you have no plans to exploit or wish to keep out of reach of enemy workers.
- Against another human player, there can be a rush to destroy each other's nearby algae completely to prevent the enemy from having advanced buildings too easily. AI are not smart enough to do it to you, but certain players have been known to try it every game! So send a few warriors to protect yours. Defense towers are nice for this purpose as they don't require feeding and won't convert to the enemy; but to fight an algea genocide rush, you need warriors who can swim.
- As soon as the first workers have finished school, you get the option to upgrade buildings. Swarms, Markets and Stone Walls cannot be upgraded, others buildings can be upgraded twice. To upgrade to higher levels, you must first upgrade your School and train some workers (it's a common error to assign 20 workers to upgrade something ASAP when only a few have the proper build level - be careful). Workers trained in School can not only upgrade buildings, but also gather resources much faster.
Organization of creatures
In order to raise a healthy colony you need to:
- Take your time to build all these buildings. The most important for your creatures is the food. Once you have enough food and workers upgrade buildings one by one.
- Assign more workers when upgrading, and it will take less time until the new and improved building is available. Don't wait for a building to be finished slowly. And don't forget that after your building is upgraded, you still need all your units to train inside your building. It will take some time until you will see your units go faster or fight better.
Détails et autres informations
Pour plus de détails sur l'intelligence artificielle (AI), vous pouvez consulter la FAQ et la page AI.
Further readings
