So a good buddy of mine and former GM for many a game recently released a kickstarter for Slower Than Light. It is a 4X game where you build a space empire, but unlike similar games of the genre light speed is a hard cap on movement and communications. Build your space empire as the time delay between instructions and action increases. Who knows what your outer colonies are doing today?
Interesting. I will have to check this out.
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I'm interested in how he'll be able to pull it off.
"Sir! We just received word! The Epsilon colony was overrun by an unknown alien attacker - 300 years ago!"
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Clearly he's a fan of The Forever War!
Esciting concept, but as he acknowledges, he hasn't given very much detail about the mechanics of the game. I'd have hear more about that before committing. I know that he has promised more info. on just that this week and in the weeks to come, but there's a very real chance I won't remember to to check the Kickstarter page or his website's blog to find out more information.
I can respect keeping the opening text on the Kickstarter page light, but he should have had links for people interested in finding out more information about the game ready before he launched the KS campaign.
He posted a Demo and some gameplay videos on his blog.
I took a look and am interested. I'll have to see about backing it.
The Forever War did use collapsars as FTL jump points.Clearly he's a fan of The Forever War!
But the time dilation was pretty extreme with centuries passing while one was using an FTL jump point.