Distant Worlds: Universe

I am writing a brief review of this game because it is on sale now for a reasonable price of 30USD.

I bought it for 60USD, because I am a strategy buff and a game developer, but for most players it is not worth it at 60.  However, for 30, I would recommend it to anyone who casually enjoys strategy games.

The most interesting features of this game are the economic complexity, chiefly in breaking it down to specific materials, which adds a lot of management potential.  Fortunately, the Codeforce guys saw this and created a full spectrum, scalable AI to manage parts of the game for you.  If you wanted to you can put your empire on full AI and watch the game play itself, but usually I manage the research, colonization, diplomacy, and war parts.

It is this scalable AI idea that was my main takeaway from this game, as a developer, and one that we will be seeking to emulate in our game.

Either way, well worth checking out if you like strategy games.

It is on sale until January 10, 2016.
http://www.matrixgames.com/products/515/details/Distant.Worlds.-.Universe

Lions and Tigers and barbaric ISIS savages, Oh my!

I am going to apologize to readers of this, as I am going to ramble a bit.  I am a systemic thinker and look at this through many different lenses at once.