A couple of weeks ago I made a post about Horizon, a space strategy game under development by L3O Interactive, an Indie developer being lead by Raffi Parsekhian. I asked Raffi for an interview for SpaceSector.com which he kindly accepted. Here is the interview. Enjoy! Continue reading | 1 Comment
Sometimes I’ll be posting about non-Sci-Fi strategy games if I found them of interest to the strategy gaming community of SpaceSector.com. Elemental: War of Magic is one of such titles.
Elemental is developed and published by Stardock, it was released yesterday 24th of August 2010. It is a fantasy strategy game set on a world of magic and Continue reading
In what respects to space strategy games there is one gameplay element that mostly decides the style of the game, its pace mechanic: Real-time or Turn-based. These are two paradigms, normally you prefer one style or the other and judging from the latest poll hosted at SpaceSector.com that seems to be the case.
The last poll dictated 67 votes favoring TBS games, 19 votes for RTS where only 11… Continue reading | 6 Comments
Came across another space strategy game under development the other day, it is called Horizon. It will be a turn-based space strategy game set in the future where humans have just begun exploring outer space.
The story is about humanity coming into contact with other life forms and civilizations and the decisions they will have to make after that. Continue reading | 2 Comments
Star Ruler is a real-time 4x space strategy game being developed by the Blind Mind Studies where you control an interstellar empire in a hostile galaxy against a number of opponents. From Blind Mind Studios Staff: “It’s slightly more RTS than 4X; it is most certainly way more 4X than SoaSE (Sins of a Solar Empire).“ Continue reading | 1 Comment
Gratuitous Space Battles is a Space Strategy Game developed by an UK indie developer named Positech Games. It’s a strategy and simulation game that does not contain all the traditional elements of a 4x space strategy game but rather concentrates in ship design and space battles.
In Gratuitous Space Battles you assign your ships, arrange them into fleets, give them upfront orders of engagement and then site down and watch the result of your deployment strategy: It’s all about wondering if all the decisions have been done right and if you can come out victorious from battle. Continue reading | 3 Comments
Currently under development Sword of the Stars 2 will be the sequel 4x Sci-Fi game to the Kerberos Productions acclaimed title Sword of the Stars. The game was announced back on January 2010 and by then I made an article on SpaceSector.com to cover that. Check it out: “Sword of the Stars 2 Announced”.
Targeted for release on Q1 2011 SotS2 promises to take the series to a new level at the same time keeping some essential features and gameplay mechanics of the original title. Continue reading
Shrapnel Games announces the next great epic science-fiction strategy game, Star Legacy! This game is being developed by the Star Legacy Development Group, and scheduled for release on late 2011.
Star Legacy is promised to be a feature-rich 4x game being designed from scratch. The game is targeted to answer the simple question: “what would the ultimate sci-fi 4X game include?”
Turn-Based with Multiplayer
Star Legacy will be an open-ended turn-based game. As in all good 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) titles it promises to offer Continue reading | 3 Comments
Since its release in 25th of March Matrix Games has already released 2 patches for Distant Worlds. In 28th of March Matrix Games released v1.0.2, in April 8th released v1.0.3 that among other things fixes the following major issues.
Patch v1.0.3 major changes
Distant Worlds, a 4x RTS space strategy game developed by CodeForce and published by Matrix Games has been released yesterday: 25th of March 2010.
Distant Worlds main features are:
Mike Strobel, the creator of Star Trek: Supremacy, will be attending the Las Vegas Star Trek convention in August 5 – 8th 2010. He will talk about Birth of the Federation and the development of Star Trek: Supremacy.
In preparation for this Star Trek event, Mike will release a game update in August 2010 that will improve the multiplayer experience and game performance. The update will also include improvements to Diplomacy and the Intelligence features. Continue reading | 5 Comments
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