Strategy video game written in Java Maintained by Taher Alkhateeb [email protected]
Colonize Europe!
Start from nothing and dominate another continent. Spread the influence of your culture while creating your own empire!
Since the 14th century, Europe has been a global super power when it started colonizing other continents. But what if history had gone a different way? What would Europe be like if Asia had prevailed?
Abu Al-Qazzaz is the main character in Spice Trade. He is a poor young man from Baghdad, who has inherited a house and some land, and he wants to get married too.
Abu decides to try his luck in the spice game. He has to prevent the European countries from gaining a trade monopoly. Will Abu be able to beat out the Europeans in the spice trade? Could Europe have been different? How? You decide!
Java JRE version 21 or above
To build the system issue the below command
./gradlew clean buildOnce build is complete. The system can run using below command:
./gradlew runThe original game was hosted in spicetrace.org but it discontinued and the copy that remains is in sourceforge
Moreover, the game source code no longer compiles with later versions of Java. So it was updated to work with newer Java versions and the sound system was improved and simplified.