Tropic Euro - About/Contact

The Game

Tropic Euro is an online adaptation of the board game Puerto Rico by Andreas Seyfarth. The original game supports 3 to 5 players and is based on the island of Puerto Rico during the age of Caribbean ascendancy. Tropic Euro maintains the same game mechanics except has a new theme, set in Europe just after the end of World War II. It also supports the official two-player variant and all of the extra buildings added in the Puerto Rico expansion pack released in 2004.

The Inspiration

The layout and interface for the game was originally based on an online version of Puerto Rico by Ben Harrison. Tropic Euro features improved graphics (some from the OpenTTD project) and is written in Java for cross-platform compatibility. The hard AI player is also based on existing work (by Tony Mitton) and the source code is available to download.

The Author

Tropic Euro is developed by Chris Gibbs, an English programmer based in Bath, United Kingdom. Chris has a Computer Science degree from Cambridge University, UK and is the founder of Inner Version Ltd, the company which publishes Tropic Euro.

The Music

The game features music from Inner Version, which is another main project of Chris Gibbs. Tropic Euro will remain a game that is free to download and try out, but it is run by a donation model to fund the dedicated server running costs. Please contribute what you can, either via a PayPal donation or by downloading Inner Version music (either is fine).

Contact

Any enquiries or suggestions on how to improve the game are welcome - please contact Chris Gibbs at info@tropiceuro.com.