New MM Game in Development...

Captain Kwok · #1 October 24th, 2008, 08:14 PM

Posted last night at Malfador.com:

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10/23/08 - New Game Announcement
Hey everybody, yes we are still alive! We're hard at work on our next game. Its going to be a turn-based conquer the world strategy game. As soon as screenshots are available, we'll post them here. Happy Halloween!

Perhaps a true ground combat engine for SE:VI? Well, we can dream right? It'd be great though if it were published with Shrapnel...

Randallw · #2 October 24th, 2008, 08:48 PM

Like Risk, or like Hearts of Iron?. I've liked both types. I even made a mod once for Hearts of Iron.

Captain Kwok · #3 October 24th, 2008, 10:08 PM

No details on it. I'd suspect like Space Empires, but not in space. :P

Q · #4 October 25th, 2008, 12:18 AM

Which means that work on SE V is probably abandoned

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narf poit chez BOOM · #5 October 25th, 2008, 06:34 AM

Huh. Well, I'll see how it turns out.

Gandalf Parker · #6 October 25th, 2008, 10:39 AM

I hope its more SEIV than SEV

Captain Kwok · #7 October 25th, 2008, 11:11 AM

I think SE5 has one more patch in it. After all, SE4 got a patch and localization versions during SE5's development.

President_Elect_Shang · #8 October 25th, 2008, 02:07 PM

This sounds interesting.

Randallw · #9 October 25th, 2008, 07:25 PM

I'd be interested in a planet version of SE. It could be like civilisation, creating a new planet at the start of the game. It would also be a bit different because you have to develop not just land, but sea and air units as well. I can just forsee starting a new game and discovering you started on an island, so you have to research navy, while someone else is the equivalent of Russia and can just use army to sweep across a continent.

Baron Munchausen · #10 October 25th, 2008, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Kwok

Posted last night at Malfador.com:

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10/23/08 - New Game Announcement
Hey everybody, yes we are still alive! We're hard at work on our next game. Its going to be a turn-based conquer the world strategy game. As soon as screenshots are available, we'll post them here. Happy Halloween!

Perhaps a true ground combat engine for SE:VI? Well, we can dream right? It'd be great though if it were published with Shrapnel...

That was how the new space combat system for SE V was developed. Starfury was a testbed for the new technology. If he wants to have a more elaborate ground game in SE VI, it makes sense that he'd develop a new ground game to test his ideas first.