Geeking out! » AI War http://blog.babler.us/michael Tech, toys, games, and other minor obsessions. Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:00:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 You Win! http://blog.babler.us/michael/2011/09/28/you-win/ http://blog.babler.us/michael/2011/09/28/you-win/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:00:03 +0000 Michael http://blog.babler.us/michael/?p=344 Most Monday nights I get together with Matt, Josh, and Joe online and we play some game or other. When all of us are available we tend to play AI War: Fleet Command, a strategy game in space. It’s a fairly complex game and full games tend to take upwards of 20 hours to complete. I think I’ve won about 4 games during the two and a half-years I’ve been playing.  The following screenshot took us about half a year to achieve.

22 weeks to get here

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Recently, I’ve been playing a lot of Heroes of Might and Magic III and AI War.  HoMMIII is a true turn-based game, and one that I have been playing for over 10 years.  You think I would be better at it having played it for so many years.  It’s a great game, and playing multiplayer hotseat has been a staple activity for me and my friends this last decade.  You can pick up a copy at GoG.com.  Recently we have discovered a new game called AI War.  It’s a coop RTS with TBS-style play.  The game supports up to 8-players, who play against a hostile AI.  It’s filled a nice niche in our multiplayer gaming.  It’s also a good example of how games do not need sumer amazing 3d ultra graphics to be good games, you just need solid gameplay.

More companies need to take a look at these games and figure how to adapt and improve.

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