{"id":7390,"date":"2012-08-03T17:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T21:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=7390"},"modified":"2013-11-22T05:55:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T10:55:53","slug":"star-lords-announced-a-new-complex-space-4x-tbs-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/star-lords-announced-a-new-complex-space-4x-tbs-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Lords Announced &#8211; A New Complex Space 4X TBS Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/star_lords_space_4x_game_large.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\" title=\"Star Lords | A Space 4X Game by Neogen2 Creations\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7392\" title=\"Star Lords | A Space 4X Game by Neogen2 Creations\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/star_lords_space_4x_game.jpg\" alt=\"Star Lords | A Space 4X Game by Neogen2 Creations\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/star_lords_space_4x_game.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/star_lords_space_4x_game-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this was it for the week, so I thought. Well, not without a major new announcement. Get ready.<\/p>\n<p>I just received word from <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.neogen2.com\" target=\"_blank\">Neogen2\u00a0Creations<\/a> about their new space 4X game for the PC, which they have been developing for the past 2 years. They have announced it today. Its name is <a  href=\"http:\/\/starlords-game.com\" target=\"_blank\">Star Lords<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What a way to end the work week. The announcement of a brand new 4X space strategy game with a list of features that look so good that it&#8217;s almost unreal. Check this list out:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 races each with their unique ships, techs and playing style;<\/li>\n<li>Tactical turn based combat;<\/li>\n<li>In depth Espionage\/Intel and Diplomacy components;<\/li>\n<li>Plotting: Secretly finance a war against your rivals or prepare a surprise joint war;<\/li>\n<li>A big living universe filled with pirate clans and independent\u00a0races;<\/li>\n<li>Generals: These unique and powerful units evolve as they battle;<\/li>\n<li>Domestic Policies: Turn your empire into a dystopia, a utopia or something in between;<\/li>\n<li>Complex AI that doesn&#8217;t cheat and plays by the same rules as human players;<\/li>\n<li>Randomly generated galaxies, tech trees and units;<\/li>\n<li>Modding support;<\/li>\n<li>Lan, Hot Seat and Online Multiplayer with matchmaking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the full list on the <a  title=\"Star Lords\" href=\"http:\/\/starlords-game.com\/main\/\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release date and Pre-order details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Star Lords is due for release in Q4 of 2012! The devs are accepting pre-orders starting today. Pre-ordering will grant discounts between 20% to 35% and development builds early access (currently Alpha 1). The devs say that pre-orders will be used to &#8220;polish the game, as well as get early feedback&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll play the Alpha 1 build and let you know my first impressions shortly. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z5k5vqHXANI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Lords is a new space 4X game being developed by Neogen2 Creations for the PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[86,1065,117,30,1064,230,1066,115],"class_list":["post-7390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-4x-game","tag-neogen2-creations","tag-pc-game","tag-space-strategy-game","tag-star-lords","tag-turn-based-strategy","tag-turn-based-tactical-combat","tag-under-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}