Dominions clone ?

[B0rsuk]

A game still under heavy development. Being made by a hobbyist. Judging by what 'features' page says, it's going to be quite different from Dominions, but the screens look curiously similar:

http://brass-golem.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/0216-162536_screen.jpg
http://brass-golem.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/0216-154851_screen1.jpg

Which is perhaps not suprising, because - judging by comments - the author heard about Dominions.

[baby_arm]

* Simultaneous “wego” turns
* Historical unit roles and tactics
* Both heavy and light units are tactically useful
* Units grouped and moved in divisions, forming battle lines
* Maneuver and flanking
* Morale based melee results
* Meaningfull terrain and deployment


Sounds promising if he ever manages to finish it. I'm definitely going to keep my eye on it.

[NakedLunch]

Not much of a Dominion clone, but yeah, it looks very cool.

[Gandalf Parker]

Yes the author has heard extensively of Dominions. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Fate]

It would seem that, though the turns are simultaneous, the battles are commanded personally, rather than dominion's hands-off approach.

Other points are that it uses hexes, not Dom's randomly shaped areas. Finally, it seems to have a larger emphasis on the squad part of the game than dominions.

It does look good, however. I am looking forward to more news on it!

[DominionsFan]

Actualyl no, this game reminds me of City States: Stone to Steel. I think the dev "stole" the idea from there. That game was cancalled like 2 years ago sadly.

[WraithLord]

Isn't that the neo pangaea map in the images?

IIRC the author has made many fan contributions to dom.

[DominionsFan]

Yeah Jasper was a part of this community, but he stopped posting like 2 years ago afaik.

[Endoperez]

DominionsFAN said:
Yeah Jasper was a part of this community, but he stopped posting like 2 years ago afaik.



Did Jasper use the nickname 'Sunray' or Sunraybe'? That was the first thought that popped to my mind about his name, but it doesn't seem to be so.

[ceremony]

Endoperez said:

Did Jasper use the nickname 'Sunray' or Sunraybe'?


No, he used (uses) the name "Jasper."

[Endoperez]

ceremony said:

Endoperez said:

Did Jasper use the nickname 'Sunray' or Sunraybe'?


No, he used (uses) the name "Jasper."



It must be something of his last name, then. Jasper's surname of Phillips is similar to the Sunray's e-mail, and probably to his name if the e-mail comes from his name.

[DominionsFan]

ceremony said:

Endoperez said:

Did Jasper use the nickname 'Sunray' or Sunraybe'?


No, he used (uses) the name "Jasper."




Here is the perfect evidence. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I just made a search on the forum:


Profile for Jasper

Email jasper@peak.org
Member # 4313
Name Jasper
Title Captain
Total Posts 898
Homepage http://brass-golem.com <<<<< Look here.
Occupation Software Architect
Hobbies Games, Programming, Fencing
Location Oregon
Bio
ICQ Number
Registered on 09/20/03 12:00 PM

[sunray_be]

Endoperez said:
[It must be something of his last name, then. Jasper's surname of Phillips is similar to the Sunray's e-mail, and probably to his name if the e-mail comes from his name.



Hi there. I never used another nickname (_be is for Belgium, since "Sunray" alone was used already on other forums). But my account here was erased some months ago, don't know why, an accident probably...
Cheers

[Kristoffer O]

Jasper is one of the oldest and most dedicated Dominions players. He has lots of good ideas and I hope that he will finish his game. I sure would like to play a dominions-like game not of my own making (or any fantasy strategy game).

[DominionsFan]

Kristoffer O said:
Jasper is one of the oldest and most dedicated Dominions players. He has lots of good ideas and I hope that he will finish his game. I sure would like to play a dominions-like game not of my own making (or any fantasy strategy game).



Yeah he was a nice lad.

[Daynarr]

DominionsFAN said:

Kristoffer O said:
Jasper is one of the oldest and most dedicated Dominions players. He has lots of good ideas and I hope that he will finish his game. I sure would like to play a dominions-like game not of my own making (or any fantasy strategy game).



Yeah he was a nice lad.



He isn't anymore? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Caduceus]

Maybe he met a nice lass and his status changed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[DominionsFan]

Daynarr said:

DominionsFAN said:

Kristoffer O said:
Jasper is one of the oldest and most dedicated Dominions players. He has lots of good ideas and I hope that he will finish his game. I sure would like to play a dominions-like game not of my own making (or any fantasy strategy game).



Yeah he was a nice lad.



He isn't anymore? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif



Hehe I meant that he aint posting here anymore. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Alderanas]

the graphics are from civilization 3.

[llamabeast]

Whoah, thread necromancy!

[MaxWilson]

Ewww.

[Caduceus]

Wow, so long ago, even I posted.

[sector24]

No updates in two years, sad panda.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Caduceus said:
Maybe he met a nice lass and his status changed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif



Good god, I actually remember reading that joke the first time around. It makes me wonder what tidbit of information was tossed aside in favor of it? I know it's only been two years, but now I feel ...old... What's that in internet years? Two decades? And how dated am I for really being hooked on reading and gaming by Ultima VI? Note- I was born in 1984. Arthurian tales might have gone in the mix as well, but its hard to tell who's the chicken and who's the egg.

[JimMorrison]

VI?

Ultima III and Phantasie got me started..... not long after you were born. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[capnq]

I sincerely hope the word llamabeast was looking for was "necromancy".

[JimMorrison]

I dunno, the whole thing had a rather lurid quality to it, don't you think? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/redface.gif

[Gandalf Parker]

JimMorrison said:
VI?

Ultima III and Phantasie got me started..... not long after you were born. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif


Heehee. And Im older than vitual dirt. Literally. I got hooked on text mode. Before there were screens.

[llamabeast]

Aaah! Yes, I meant necromancy!

[Morkilus]

Is this the nostalgia thread? Sweet, I can make my 1000th post here. I've been here something like 4 years! (Internet for 15)

This board is great, by the way. I think of it as the cream of the strategy crop. I just wish I was better at Dominions so I could feel more like a peer and less like a peon http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[sansanjuan]

Gandalf Parker said:

JimMorrison said:
VI?

Ultima III and Phantasie got me started..... not long after you were born. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif


Heehee. And Im older than vitual dirt. Literally. I got hooked on text mode. Before there were screens.



Me too. First "Adventure" (remember go east,go west) and then... ZORK!
-SSJ

[JimMorrison]

Gandalf Parker said:
Heehee. And Im older than vitual dirt. Literally. I got hooked on text mode. Before there were screens.



You played games with punch cards? <3


And yeah, I played Adventure, and Pirate's Cove, on VIC-20 cassette, we were so excited when we finally got them on cartridges.

[Gandalf Parker]

Actually yes I had alot of experience with punch cards. But I meant the old star trek game on the mainframes where you had to print the screen each turn. Yeah had the Vic-20 cassette, and the Pet 2000 before that.

[MaxWilson]

I see I'm a young punk here. I first got involved with computers by going through the APTs (Advanced Playing Techniques) in my dad's Computist magazines to find out the right bytes to hex-edit to give Conan the Barbarian infinite lives and hatchets, in the Apple IIe game by the same name. From the sound of things that's probably after all the rest of you had gotten rich off the microcomputer boom and retired. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

-Max

[JimMorrison]

No way Max, we were all too busy playing adventure games. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

My dad had a subscription to Compute's Gazette, the magazine that had a game in the back of every issue, listed out in assembly language. He would program them all in, and modify them for game speed issues or to add little features he thought would make them more interesting. I'm pretty good with numbers, but looking at assembly language makes me want to curl into the fetal position.....

In your estimation Gandalf, would Star Trek possibly be the first pop fiction to have an actual game based on it? That would be an interesting bit of trivia to throw at people. People who care anyways, wish there were more of us. <.<

[Gandalf Parker]

JimMorrison said:
In your estimation Gandalf, would Star Trek possibly be the first pop fiction to have an actual game based on it? That would be an interesting bit of trivia to throw at people. People who care anyways, wish there were more of us. <.<


Probably not. The first one usually sucks more. Star Trek I remember playing so much that I got in trouble for it. And so much that I can see the screens in my minds eye even now. I think I even remember most of the commands.

[Gandalf Parker]

Heehee. Im really very good at google.
Apparently it might have been the first
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_based_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29

and a site of other text games including links to playing them online. Oh the nostalgia!
http://www.ascii-world.com/ascii-text-game-and-related-websites

Gandalf Parker
--
ASCII me no questions and I will ANSI you no lies.

[JimMorrison]

Well hot damn, I didn't know that the Wumpus wasn't an original creation of Dan Bunten. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

Everything sure has changed in the last 20-30 years..... Everything was so exciting and new then, games didn't have to be good, they were more a springboard for imagination than anything else. I think that's why we love Dom3 so much in particular, because it's such a deeply interesting game, but without all of the frills of a mainstream studio title, it can still touch that part of us.


And I remember that Star Trek game actually. I didn't think it would be the same one, but I had a copy of the BASIC 2.0 port, with a manual run off of a dot matrix printer, it was as thick as a magazine and so much fun to reference, with the accordion folding. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif