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The environmental parameters reminds me a little of the old space 4x, Stars!. Cute game. I break it out a couple times a year. There's been some great seed sho
by jauntywundrkind 1y ago
The environmental parameters reminds me a little of the old space 4x, Stars!.
Cute game. I break it out a couple times a year. There's been some great seed shop books (Watts's Freeze Frame Revolution, KSR's Aurora, Noumenon, Children of Time), and this is pretty different but has the spirit.
- InitialLastName 1y agoIf you haven't read Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss, I strongly recommend it.
- unsnap_biceps 1y agoI've often felt that an updated version of Stars! would be very well received. So many current 4x games are hyper-micro-management and Stars! had a perfect balance (IMHO) between management and overall strategy.
- henrebotha 1y agoAbsolute banger of a game. About once every five years I get the urge to try and spin it up again.
- MachineBurning 1y agoPlanets[1] is still going and there's a maintained site with updated rules and quite a few people playing at planets.nu [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_Planets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_Planets
- golem14 1y agoAlas, Planets.nu has no source code available. That's OK if you just want to play, but I really always wanted to make some changes, and to self-host (like you kinda could in the original vga planets) The UI and server are relatively simple though, so it should be a fun exercise to vibe-code a clone based on phost and openplanets.
- golem14 1y agoActually, not needed apparently: https://github.com/stefanreuther/c2ng https://github.com/stefanreuther/c2ng (there is even a web client at https://www.planetscentral.com/ https://www.planetscentral.com/