GenMod creates content for Morrowind, a copyrighted and trademarked product of Bethesda Softworks.
Congrats to Alkanphel, who submitted the first-ever bug report for GenMod.
Sad to say, no one has submitted any new Layouts or Themes. And we are in desparate need of bounding-box size information on all treasure items. Your name could appear here! If you would like to help, drop me an email.
Motivation, inspiration, and some algorithmic ideas came from the public domain games Amulet of Yendor and Moria. Thanks to Robert A. Koeneke, James E. Wilson, et al. Those games showed that you get a ton of replay value when the game world is auto-generated (rather than hand-crafted).
More motivation came from commercial games like Master of Orion and Civilization 2. They too worked with auto-generated worlds/galaxies, and had tons of replay value as a result.
GenMod uses the Xerces XML parser and string tokenizer from the Apache Software Foundation. Although the DLL that it ships with is a bit big (1.5M) compared to the rest of GenMod (about 500K), Xerces is Good Stuff. Their string and unicode support are the best I have seen.
Here is their licensing info:
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