Over at Cryptic Comet, Vic Davis (he of Armageddon Empires… if you don’t know what that is, get over there and try it out), has written a nice piece on random events in strategy games. In it, he lists some of the purposes of these in game design: 1) the…
The amazing pace in terms of updates continues… or not. Anyway, before I try to finalize some more screenshots, I guess I better complete my description of the previous one. With the map out of the way, I guess I’d better explain the panels. The panel to the left of…
Finally, as promised, another screenshot. Please keep in mind that everything here is placeholder art – usually stuff from pictures or icons that I have resized/manipulated into a usable form. Everything will eventually need to be replaced. If any of you recall the old screenshots, you will note that a…
Troy Goodfellow over on Flash of Steel, recently posted on the Eight Greatest Features that a game should have. It makes for interesting reading, although a couple (2 & 3) are to me “features that every good game must have” rather than “features that make a game cool” (which seems…
It’s been a while since the last post, but with vacation rolling around, I am getting more time to work on Imperium, and thus time also to write a bit. And since I’ve promised “new” screenshots for ages, I thought I’d better post something with one. Please note that the…
I recently acquired the boardgame Age of Napoleon by Renaud Verlaque, a strategic boardgame over the Napoleonic wars. As such games go, it is pretty unique, allowing you to play the entire conflict in 3 hours of gaming time. One would find it hard to complete a game of classic Risk within that time.