.and with that the holiday brings out Santa Sarge! Killer Bee Software's carefully crafted marketing tool.
I continue to maintain a fairly low profile. My time is still very limited due to several life events. Fortunately, Build 18 has turned out to be quite stable so I have not needed to patch up to a build 19.
Over the summer I did convert all of the stock scenarios from the 1993 Empire Deluxe and the scenario disk to the scenario/map download area. The conversion of these scenarios has been the number one ask from fans of the older versions. You can access these maps and scenarios from the Maps/Scenarios option off the main menu, then click on the button in the lower left corner for UL/DL Maps and Scenarios and peruse the Maps and Scenarios to download. The scenarios are stored under OriginalScens. But when you look at the different collections you will see there are many (over 100 I would say) maps and scenarios uploaded by fans of the game thank you to all of you for these.
So in closing I would like to say I have been working on other designs in the Empire Deluxe style vein, but nothing of note yet and it will still be quite a while before I have the ability to focus on something new. But for now, I would like to wish you a happy holiday gaming season with Empire Deluxe and stay safe!
[ 2021-11-26 16:10:23 CET ] [ Original post ]
- Empire Deluxe Combined Edition Linux U [235.88 M]
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).
- Processor: 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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