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+# Ascendant
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+ Ascendant is a top-down real-time strategy game with strong inspiration from "Populous: The Beginning (1998)", and "The Fertile Crescent (2022)."
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+ Initial goals of the project are to create an efficient, but easy to understand codebase that can then be modularized, and upgraded piece by piece.
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+## Documentation: 
+See Wiki.
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