Them!

I have build 13 in the oven, but I suspect my schedule is going to get the best of me and I will not get the build fully tested for a release until next week. I am turning my hamster wheel as fast as I can, but as you should know I am a one man shop. But this got me thinking that I want to give a shout out to some of those that are helping spread the word for the game either through videos, or mods. First I want to shout out thanks to Das Tactics, who has made some videos of Empire Deluxe. He plays a lot of interesting stuff and I have watched him on several occasions to get a feel for a title. He is quite prolific and it is obviously a labor of love. His channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Das24680/featured And then there have been a couple of series by Time And Tactics, who has an interesting play style and explains a lot of his strategies a his games unfold. He is obviously a huge strategy gaming nerd, like the rest of us! He has some interesting play-throughs of various games here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjRoLbPgX1dMq01Go1FBf6Q/videos We cannot forget Dr. Matt Barton, of “Matt Chat”. Last year he did an interview with Mark Baldwin, and he has hundreds of episodes interviewing a lot of gaming industry names and such. If you like gaming and have a been a gamer for a while, you definitely want to check him out: https://www.youtube.com/user/blacklily8/videos . You may even learn something about beer. For mods we have some pretty serious ones going. WWII Weasel has released a mod, and tells me he is close to releasing a second. Info on his first mod is here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/742700/discussions/0/1700541698702292519/ Gryphin Rampant has been pinging me for quite a while about his attacking Ants mod. He has released an initial version of it now, and it can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/742700/discussions/0/1697169163401242013/ Then a little while back I mentioned Andrew Young's contribution, which is discussed more in this update: https://killerbeesoftware.itch.io/empire-deluxe-combined-edition/devlog/28144/another-map-and-a-world-viewer I would like to encourage you to help EDCE along if you can, by talking to your friends about it, making a video, maybe doing a stream, writing a review as to why you like it. You can also add to the game by sharing a map for us to enjoy, making a mod, or making something else we had not considered. The game thrives on a sharing community. If you are doing something you would like me to share, do drop me a line.

[ 2018-04-05 00:01:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

A Few Shout Outs

Them!

I have build 13 in the oven, but I suspect my schedule is going to get the best of me and I will not get the build fully tested for a release until next week. I am turning my hamster wheel as fast as I can, but as you should know I am a one man shop. But this got me thinking that I want to give a shout out to some of those that are helping spread the word for the game either through videos, or mods. First I want to shout out thanks to Das Tactics, who has made some videos of Empire Deluxe. He plays a lot of interesting stuff and I have watched him on several occasions to get a feel for a title. He is quite prolific and it is obviously a labor of love. His channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Das24680/featured And then there have been a couple of series by Time And Tactics, who has an interesting play style and explains a lot of his strategies a his games unfold. He is obviously a huge strategy gaming nerd, like the rest of us! He has some interesting play-throughs of various games here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjRoLbPgX1dMq01Go1FBf6Q/videos We cannot forget Dr. Matt Barton, of Matt Chat. Last year he did an interview with Mark Baldwin, and he has hundreds of episodes interviewing a lot of gaming industry names and such. If you like gaming and have a been a gamer for a while, you definitely want to check him out: https://www.youtube.com/user/blacklily8/videos . You may even learn something about beer. For mods we have some pretty serious ones going. WWII Weasel has released a mod, and tells me he is close to releasing a second. Info on his first mod is here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/742700/discussions/0/1700541698702292519/ Gryphin Rampant has been pinging me for quite a while about his attacking Ants mod. He has released an initial version of it now, and it can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/742700/discussions/0/1697169163401242013/ Then a little while back I mentioned Andrew Young's contribution, which is discussed more in this update: https://killerbeesoftware.itch.io/empire-deluxe-combined-edition/devlog/28144/another-map-and-a-world-viewer I would like to encourage you to help EDCE along if you can, by talking to your friends about it, making a video, maybe doing a stream, writing a review as to why you like it. You can also add to the game by sharing a map for us to enjoy, making a mod, or making something else we had not considered. The game thrives on a sharing community. If you are doing something you would like me to share, do drop me a line.

[ 2018-04-05 00:01:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Empire Deluxe Combined Edition is the latest in the classic Empire Series of games, which has spanned almost five decades.

Empire Deluxe is a game about taking cities. Starting with just one, the city enables a commander to produce units. These units in turn can directly attack or support the attack of more cities. Your imperialistic desires are not satisfied until you have taken every city on the map.

Then there is an added complication:

There can be multiple opponents with the same goal. You cannot work with them to capture all of the cities. They don't want to work with you. You must work against them. You spend a good amount of time preventing them from taking your cities, and you try your best to capture their cities.

So come back to the classic 4x strategy wargame that has inspired so many other games!

Features include

4 Built-In Unit Sets, each a progression from the previous: Basic, Standard, Advanced and Enhanced.
Anywhere from 6 to 30 unit types, some including land, naval, air, submarine, artillery, engineers, satellites, missiles unit types.
3 uniquely different AI players
Optional additional rules and victory conditions.
Maps of virtually unlimited size
Play Solitaire or Against Humans in Hot Seat, Email and Network Play.
Built-In map/scenario editor.
Built-In Unit Set Modification Editor allows you to make adjustment to the unit sets.
AI player source code available online to make your own AI players.
World Building C# source code available online to make your own map makers.
Hours of Fun, for many even as much as hundreds or thousands! And a game you may still be playing in 2045 on Mars. (Interplanetary play not yet implemented).

MINIMAL SETUPProcessor: Core 2 DuoMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 512 MB of RAM
Storage: 500 MB available space

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