Serflings

Serflings is a great way to relive memories of the classic game with enhanced graphics and new features.

Features already included

• Most of the features from the original game (see below for missing features):

  • All trainings

  • All missions including passwords and ending animation

  • Custom games as singleplayer

  • Fully functional AI as present in the original game

  • Saving and loading of games, including full support of savegames from the original game

  • All main functions of the original game

  • All map functions

  • All menus for statistics and settings

• Supported languages: German, English, French, Polish

• Arbitrarily high resolutions

• Smooth scrolling

• Zoom

• Automatic pathfinding on path construction including a preview function

• Network games over LAN (1 vs 1) including team games

• Indication of the work radius for buildings

• Optional control without special click (middle click)

• Changing game speed

• The state of completed missions will be saved

• Display of mission and game goals

• Representation of different types of food in mines

• Additional information about transport in window for castle or stock

Still missing or planned features

• Original game: Replacing an existing building by a new one

• Original game: Timers for menus or buildings

• Original game: Scrolling while building a path

• Disable some types of messages

• Tooltips

• Messages for missing resources for Stonecutter and Fisherman

• Lobby for network games and network games with up to four players

• Additional languages

• Support for Amiga game files

You may use the following additional keys:

• 1 - 5: Buttons in south panel

• Space: Building help

• Arrow keys: Scrolling

• Mouse wheel: Zoom

• TAB: Open the next new message

• ESC: Close a window in game

• p: Pause

• + and -: Adjust game speed

• 0: Reset game speed to default

• v: Toggle video mode VGA/SVGA

• F11 or Alt+Enter: Toggle fullscreen

• s: Toggle sound

• m: Toggle music

• F3: Toggle display of debug information

You may pass the following command line arguments to the game:

• --enable-preview: Activates preview mode for new functions which are still in development

• --validate-data: Executes a simple check for the original game data

• --system-info: Displays internal information about the environment of Java and the identified hardware