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by pinback 07/05/2014, 10:55am PDT |
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Imperia is a game which is in early Alpha, in which about 80% of the features are still missing, but is already a unique and engaging take on the old, stale "space 4x" theme. Specifically, Imperia takes the relatively unheard of (at least for the 4x genre) path of installing you as an emperor, but an initially disliked, distrusted and powerless one. Stars and planets are governed by others, so the game is mostly political. You need to make friends and influence people if you want to succeed. If you fail, you'll be oustered. This is the conceit behind the "5th X" that the author has coined, that being: "eXist". As in, your hold on power is tenuous, so while you're worried about the other four Xs, you also have to worry about not getting your head put in a Space Guillotine.
It feels much more like a grand-strategy, Europa Universalis-type deal, a Games of Space Thrones, if you will. Do I like it because it's great, or because it's new and different? Well, it has a ways to go before greatness enters the picture, but I find the whole thing rather fascinating.
Not the least of which is my fascination with the user interface, which has eschewed the modern "smaller is better" motif, and gone back to BIG PICTURES and BIG BUTTONS and BIG FONTS, which is jarring at first, but quickly becomes well-appreciated by our old, straining eyes: Click here for a high-resolution example.
At my behest and request, Brian Rubin of Space Game Junkie has agreed to do a podcast with Steve Hawkins, Imperia's author, on July 16.
I am singlehandedly changing the landscape of modern indie strategy gaming!!!!
Thank you for your time.
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Welcome to Imperia! by pinback 07/05/2014, 10:55am PDT 
Oh yeah I should probably link to it DOYYYYYYyyYYYyyYYyyyyy by pinback 07/05/2014, 10:56am PDT
I am committed to answering your questions about Imperia. by Moonrogue 07/05/2014, 3:24pm PDT
I played it a bit by jeep 07/07/2014, 6:08am PDT
You can afford more than you think. by Moonrogue 07/07/2014, 6:50am PDT
I'll play it again by jeep 07/07/2014, 10:34am PDT
I... I didn't write it. NT by Moonrogue 07/07/2014, 10:59am PDT
Isn't this Master of Orion 3? NT by MM 07/07/2014, 6:55am PDT
Bad question! NT by The Bad Question Fairy 07/07/2014, 8:23am PDT
Really? by MM 07/07/2014, 10:00am PDT
One similarity indicates equality! NT by Paul Robinson's Logic Flashcard 07/07/2014, 2:40pm PDT
You mean the selling point? The mechanic that permeates the entire game? NT by MM 07/07/2014, 5:23pm PDT
MoO3's use of player attention as a bottleneck was incidental, this is (badly) by designed 07/08/2014, 11:55am PDT
And now for the author's side of the story... by Texashawk 07/08/2014, 10:04pm PDT
Sorry, Texashawk! by Moonrogue 07/09/2014, 6:04am PDT
Re: Sorry, Texashawk! by Texashawk 07/09/2014, 7:17pm PDT
Re: Sorry, Texashawk! by Moonrogue 07/10/2014, 9:51am PDT
I could smell the reek of unwashed EU gameplay all over you and that's just fine by serial malcontent 07/09/2014, 1:05pm PDT
Hopefully it smells like victory when I'm done... by Texashawk 07/09/2014, 7:26pm PDT
Thanks for stopping by :) by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/09/2014, 4:37pm PDT
That looks like the autoexec.bat I had running in the school lab in 6th grade NT by Entropy Stew 07/09/2014, 7:09pm PDT
You invented the Steam that I've always wanted but by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/09/2014, 8:27pm PDT
Thanks! by Texashawk 07/09/2014, 7:30pm PDT
Re: Thanks! by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/09/2014, 8:03pm PDT
I meant to make this post but I didn't. On a scale of MOO1 to MOO3 which one is NT by this? - WITTGENSTEIN 07/08/2014, 1:38pm PDT
Five is the magic number here. NT by Gentleman Jim Browser 07/09/2014, 8:27pm PDT
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