is an indie TBS diplomacy/wargame where you, as part of the nobility of hell, grasp for the throne of Satan who has mysteriously vanished.
Graphically it's not quite revolutionary, and it takes QUITE a while to get a grasp of the rules (there's no tutorial and reading the manual is a must), but the possibilities for backstabbing, deceit and omgwtfbbq moments are endless. Of course, like in any good game, this gets even more fun if you're doing it with/to friends.
So I was hoping we'd get a group going here, and MP games. The MP is play-by-email*, so it can be spread over long periods of time and doesn't require all players to be online at the same timen (at all). So you can think over your moves whenever you got the time and even take a week out if you're on holiday or whatever.
Since we're all cool peeps here and know each other relatively well (and have a forum to discuss strategies over, like via PM - even if there is an in-game messaging system), I was wondering if there any takers here. The price is 30 bucks (20 quid or 22 € converted) but there is a week-long discount where there's 5 bucks of the price atm
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/01 ... n-empires/
I'll be sure to organize a game if we get 4 or more peeps together here. If you're not sure about the game itself or the price, check out these amazing write-ups over at RockPaperShotgun. They make my mouth water at the possibilities and ware totally worth reading it. It's a lot of readong but...SOOOO GOOD.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/gameboys-from-hell/ (start with part 1, obviously, or just scroll through all of them to get an idea)
The demo is rather pointless because
- it runs an older, crappier version of the AI
- there is no into or tutorial whatsoever so you won't know wtf is going on without reading the manual, which is too big to read for a demo
But hey. Hope more people join.
The discount only lasts a week so on't linger too long! And make sure you check those AAR reports if you're in doubt.
* for everyone who hasn't lived through the stone age of TBS MP games, play by email comes down to doing your turn, saving, sending the savegame to the other players, they load it in their game, do their turn, etc. Sounds like a hassle but it isn't really, using a gmail account can contain everything nicely in one email conversation for example.
But whatever, it's cool. I had serious reservations about paying a relatively large amount of money for a game that looks like a (not so attractive) board game. But no regrets, it's amazing MP fun and both casual (play-by-email) and serious at the same time.