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An expansion pack, Empire Deluxe Scenarios, was produced later in 1993, including a map and scenario statistics tool. GRFs used in my scenarios, download link.

Contents • • • • • • • • • Gameplay [ ] At the start of a new game, a random game map is generated on a square grid basis. The map normally consists of numerous islands, although a variety of algorithms were used in different versions of the game, producing different styles of maps. Randomly distributed on the land are a number of cities. The players start the game controlling one of these cities each. The area immediately around the city is visible, but the rest of the world map is blacked out. The city can be set to build armies, aircraft, and various types of ships. Cities take a particular number of turns to produce the various units, with the armies typically being the most rapid.

Tokio Sorafune Pv Download on this page. Players move these units on the map to explore the world, typically seeing the land within a one square radius around the unit. As they explore they will find other cities, initially independent, and can capture them with their armies. The captured cities are then set to produce new units as well.

As the player's collection of cities expands, they are able to set aside some to produce more time-consuming types, like. Ultimately they have to use these forces to take all the cities on the map, including those of the other players, who are often run by the computer's. History and development [ ] Bright's first version was written around 1977 in the programming language for the computer. This version was spread virally to other PDP-10s, which were common timesharing systems at the time. Later, Bright recoded this in on a and made it available commercially. He sold two copies. At some point, someone broke through the security systems at Caltech, and took a copy of the for the FORTRAN/PDP-10 version of the game.

This code was continually modified, being passed around from person to person. Eventually, it was found on a computer in by Herb Jacobs and Dave Mitton. They ported the code to the operating system and, under the alias of 'Mario DeNobili and Paulson' submitted the program to, a large user's group. DECUS programs were often installed on new computers at the time of delivery, and so Empire propagated further. Eventually, Bright heard of this, and in 1983 contacted DECUS, who subsequently credited Bright in the catalog description of the program and re-added his name to the source code. [ ] In 1984, Bob Norby from, ported the DECUS version from the VAX to the PC as shareware. In 1987, Chuck Simmons re-implemented the game in C using the UNIX for its supports of many character-cell terminals.

Maintains a copy of this version and shared some version with projects. Empire: Wargame of the Century [ ] After this, Bright recoded the game in on an. With low commercial expectations, he submitted an announcement to January 1984 's 'Software Received' section, and received a flood of orders. After writing to many software companies (including,,,, and ), he licensed the game to a small software company named, who hired to add a. Starting around 1987, Empire: Wargame of the Century on the,,,, and was produced. [ ] In its review of the game, noted the improved, saying 'the playability of an already successful system has been significantly enhanced'.

The game would later receive the magazine's 'Game of the Year' award for 1988; in 1989 the magazine named Empire to its Hall of Fame for games readers rated highly over time, with a final score of 9.71 out of 12, in 1990 readers voted for the game as their 'All-Time Favorite', a 1991 magazine survey of strategy and war games gave it four and a half stars out of five, and a 1993 survey in the magazine gave the game three stars out of five. Agreed with the warning on the game box of the its addictiveness, stating that the game combined aspects of exploration and strategy. The magazine also praised the UI, and concluded 'this is a superb, addictive game'. Of also agreed about the addictiveness. While stating that the UI was 'not as good as I'd like', he concluded that Empire 'tempts you to play a little longer and find out what's going to happen next'. The version of the game was reviewed in 1988 in #131 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in 'The Role of Computers' column.

The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars. The Lessers reviewed the MS-DOS version of the game in 1989 in Dragon #142, and gave the game 4 out of 5 stars. Empire Deluxe [ ] In the early 1990s, Mark Baldwin and Bob Rakowsky rewrote the game, calling it Empire Deluxe for,, and, released in 1993 with as the publisher. Empire Deluxe sustained the old game play of Interstel's version in a standard game, while adding a basic version for beginners, and advanced game with new units such as the Bomber and Armor and maps sizes up to 200x200. [ ] An, Empire Deluxe Scenarios, was produced later in 1993, including a map and scenario statistics tool, a map randomiser tool (as random maps were present in the Interstel version, but lacking from Empire Deluxe), upgrade patches for both DOS and Windows versions and a collection of 37 scenarios (with accompanying maps) from 'celebrity' designers, many of them famous in the games industry including,,, Johnny Wilson ( editor),, Don Gilman ( architect), Trevor Sorensen ( designer), and the game's authors and Bob Rakosky. Computer Gaming World in 1993 called Empire Deluxe 'a welcome addiction (sic) to the library of every serious strategy gamer'.