CC4 - The Cranky Harem

My Dragon Age Module Development blog CC4 - THE CRANKY HAREM - README by Dilip Chandrasekhar (TimelordDC) 10/31/10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1a. Installation

• []Go to your Dragon Age install folder. []Go into the bin_ship directory []Open daupdater.exe []Click \"Select DAZIPs\" []Browse to cc4_the_cranky_harem_v1. 0.dazip (wherever you saved it to) and click Open []Click on cc4_the_cranky_harem_v1. 0.dazip in the Content Updater window. []Click \"Install Selected\" []Launch Dragon Age, go to the Other Campaigns menu and select CC4 - The Cranky Harem []Go talk to the Grand Vizier and select a game option and begin playing.

1b. Game Logic: The game is a combination of 2 classic chess puzzles -

• []N-queen problem where you have to place N queens on a NxN board so they don\'t attack each other []Queen domination problem where you have to place the minimum number of queens so they attack all squares

There are 2 key player groups - wives and guards Both wives and guards follow the same rules as a regular chess queen - they can see all the squares on the row, column and diagonals their square is a part of. The player can select to play the following game modes:

• []Place just wives []Place just guards []Place both wives and guards []Place only guards with the additional condition they don\'t attack each other []Place both wives and guards with the additional condition that the guards don\'t attack each other

The player can also choose the size of the game board - 4 through 8, resulting in a total of 25 different game variations. You can use the Collected Thoughts book behind the vizier (once the game is initiated) to set the difficulty level for that particular game. Easy Mode: Places some guards/wives and turns highlighting always on so you can see which squares are already covered Medium Mode: Places lesser number of guards/wives than Easy Mode and turns highlighting on only till the next member is placed Hard Mode: No pieces are placed and highlighting is turned on only for 10 seconds after you place a member ------------------ Once upon a time, Lord Oneisall of Chessdom, a city-state in the Free Marches was host to a dignitary, Har\'emaal, from lands across the eastern sea. In spite of the grand ceremony put forth to welcome him and the lavish quarters prepared for his stay, Har\'emaal was extremely contemptuous of Lord Oneisall and refused to even sit at the same table with him for supper. Initially, Lord Oneisall ignored this obvious rude behavior but as the populace started talking about the supposed disregard for their Lord by a foreigner, he decided to put an end to it and went to meet Ha