
There are two components for playing a psx Ballerburg game on your PC. The game also simulates a simple economy system: Prices to replenish the stock of balls and powder and replace destroyed cannons and vanes alter each turn. An additional challenge is generated by the wind, which changes its strength each turn. One cannon can be fired per turn, which is done by adjusting the firing angle and amount of powder. There is a choice of various castles, each of them outfitted with multiple cannons, one destroyable storage room for each, gunpowder, cannonballs and money, and a vane. Two conditions can lead to victory: either you pulverize the opponent's king by directly hitting him with a cannonball, or you ruin the enemy kingdom's economy until the king capitulates automatically. In the game, two enemy kingdoms, separated by a mountain, try to destroy the castle of the enemy by exchanging cannonballs. Being a public domain program, it was distributed free of charge.īallerburg was designed for two players, both of which can be human or computer-controlled. Ballerburg is a turnbased Artillery game from 1987, written in C by Eckhard Kruse for the Atari ST.
