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<page title="Construo - A 2D Construction Toy">
  <section title="News">
    <news>
      <item date="10. Apr 2013">
        0.2.3 release, nothing special, just small compile fix for moden distributions
      </item>

      <item date="30. May 2010">
        Small webpage layout update
      </item>

      <item date="29. Jul 2003">
        Construo 0.2.2 is out, fixes the speed problems in de X11
        target, should result in around 4 times smoother graphics
      </item>

      <item date="26. Jul 2003">
        Construo 0.2.1 is out, some new features and lots of bugfixes. A
        (incomplete) <a href="tutorial.html">tutorial</a> is also
        available.
      </item>

      <item date="11. Jan 2003">
        Construo 0.2.0 is out, new features, new bugs
      </item>

      <item date="02. Dez 2002">
        Construo House of Horrors - Part 2 released, a pack of 9
        new torture constructions by Mark Michelsen is
        available
      </item>

      <item date="24. Nov 2002">
        Construo House of Horrors, a pack of 9 torture constructions by
        Mark Michelsen is available
      </item>

      <item date="22. Nov 2002">
        Construo 0.1.0 is out
      </item>
    </news> 
  </section>

  <section title="Introduction">
    <p>Construo is a simple 2D construction programm (it is currently
      not a real game) for objects which consist of rods and springs
      and let them react on physical forces. You can currently
      construct buildings and objects like bridges, towers,
      spaceshuttles, etc. and you let them fall to ground and see seem
      smash and break. Sound like fun, doesn't it =;-)</p>
    
    <p>The game is similar to <link
                                 ref="http://www.bridgebuilder-game.com/bbg-info.php">Bridge Builder</link> and
      heavily inspired from the <link
                                   ref="http://www.gamasutra.com">Gamasutra</link> article <link
                                                                                              ref="http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000208/lander_01.htm">Collision
        Response: Bouncy, Trouncy, Fun</link>. Its covered under the
      <link ref="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General
        Public License</link>, thats means source code is availabel
        and you are allowed to modify it.
    </p>
  </section>

  <section title="ToDo">
    <p>
      The 'thing' is currently useable for constructing simple 2D
      objects, but there is really quite a lot stuff missing. There is
      currently no way to set different parameters for rods or
      springs, change their color or thikness. Building with prefabs
      could also be fun. Colliding rods would also be a usefull
      feature, currently only rod-ground collision is implemented. See
      the
      file <tt><a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/construo/construo/TODO?rev=HEAD&amp;content-type=text/plain">TODO</a></tt>
      in the source directory contains a few more infos.
    </p>
  </section>

  <section title="Requirements">
    <dl>
      <dt>OS:</dt><dd>GNU/Linux or another Unix-like OS</dd>
      <dt>CPU:</dt><dd>probally something fast, havn't tested it on anything sub-1Ghz</dd>
      <dt>Libraries:</dt><dd>Only plain Xlib is required, which comes with every distro</dd>
    </dl>
  </section>
  
  <section title="Screenshots">
    <screenshots>
      <item>screenshot_0.2.0</item>
      <item>screenshot_0.2.0-1</item>
      <item>screenshot_0.2.0-2</item>
      <item>screenshot6</item>
      <item>screenshot5</item>
      <item>screenshot4</item>
      <item>screenshot3</item>
      <item>screenshot1</item>
      <item>screenshot2</item>
    </screenshots>
  </section>

  <section title="Download">
    <subsection title="Source Code">
      <p>
        The versions up from 0.1.0 only require Xlib or Glut, which
        comes with every GNU/Linux and should be available an almost all
        systems, so you shouldn't have problems compiling it. Binary
        version for 0.2.0 aren't planed, but can be provided if anybody
        has throuble compiling themself.
      </p>
      <downloads>
        <item file="construo-0.2.3.tar.gz"/>most current release
        <item file="construo-0.2.2.tar.gz"/>
	<item file="construo-0.2.1.tar.gz"/>
	<item file="construo-0.2.0.tar.gz"/>
	<item file="construo-0.1.0.tar.gz"/>
	<item file="construo-0.0.2.tar.gz"/>
	<item file="construo-0.0.1.tar.gz"/>
      </downloads>
    </subsection>

    <subsection title="SVN Access">
      <tt>svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/construo/trunk</tt>
    </subsection>

    <subsection title="Links">
      <ul>
        <li><a
               href="http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~decarlo/software.html">xspringies
            - Another piece of GPLed software, pretty similar to this one</a></li>
        <li>
          <a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/construo/">Savannah Project Page</a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/construo/doxygen/">Construo Source Code Documentation</a>
        </li>

      </ul>
    </subsection>

  </section>

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