The "BIG" Changes

• Empire Unlock Progression - All empire unlocks will become available over time as you play the game. You can still unlock each one through completing gold missions in a Campaign. Progress will be shown at the end of each Campaign.
• Added support for 16:10 resolutions; now more people can partake in fullscreen tyranting!

Bug Fixes

• No more white reward images for Exploration Events.
• Changed a few more instances of "mana" to "crystal".
• Hurry planet power can no longer be activated while you have a waiting Tech Up.
• Techno Slug Empire now has the proper "Coming Soon" tag on it during Empire selection.
• Bunny Cruiser now properly glows when Teched Up.
• Perks that gave you extra ships at the start of a mission would sometimes give you ships again after loading a game.
• Queen's Mercy and Queen's Grace artifacts have better descriptions.
• Numerous misc. art and behind the scenes fixes.

Balance Changes

• Small updates to a small number Exploration Events.
• You can no longer get Traits from previously chosen Exploration Event choices.
• Tech Up Choices are now slightly weighted towards ships you've already Teched Up.

General Changes

• Slowed down the tutorial videos for easier reading.
• Hoplites now show a broken tech choice along with their normal ones to denote they have fewer choices than normal.
• Map backgrounds are now different depending on what region a mission is in.

[ 2017-08-17 22:21:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Space Tyrant is a fast-paced roguelikelikelike 4X game set in a grimly grimdark future. Build a terrifying space fleet, devastate planets, and slaughter peaceful extraterrestrials in your relentless march to total domination! Will the forces of Galactic Order halt your invasion or are you truly ready to face-punch the universe?

From the people who designed, produced, drew stuff for, or ate lunch with the people who made Bejeweled, Peggle, and Plants vs Zombies comes a more sinister strategic experience with far fewer unicorns.

We all enjoyed 4x and roguelike games but found our minds wandering to nearby squirrels, etc, during a typical session. So, under the aegis of newly formed Blue Wizard Digital (who also make the awesome SLAYAWAY CAMP, check it out) we set out to make a zero-attention span mega-empire game, where you could have titanic space battles and huge galaxy-spanning conquests but not run over your employer-mandated allotment of lunch-eating minutes.

IN SPACE NOBODY CAN HEAR YOU DIE SCREAMING, THOUGH YOU ARE STILL DYING, RIGHT, IT'S JUST YOUR SCREAMS DON'T TRANSMIT THROUGH THE VACUUM

Also, we didn't care about winning any "cultural victories" or "Space United Nations" crap, so there's none of that. We wanted to disintegrate guys and watch tons of weird spaceships explode. So there is a whole lot of that, plus collecting artifacts and leveling up and conquering planets and executing ambassadors and that sort of thing. Also we hear you like cards? We have cards. So many cards, let me tell you.

But it's not all vaporizing mewling, hapless slavelings. While bashing your way through space, you’ll eventually face off against the ‘mall cops’ of the universe - the ASTRONS. They might try to slap your hand and call your parents, but a truly merciless tyrant will plow right through these goody two-shoes. And to reward your unsavory efforts, a whole new empire will be yours to agitate. New races of scientifically implausible creatures to lord over, new types of frankly ridiculous technology to research, new commanders to throw into the fray, new cards to, um, do card things with.

What are you waiting for? Play now, my lord!