How did you hear about SE4 Gold?

[David E. Gervais]

How did I learn about Space Empires? hmmm, some guy named Aaron Hall sent me an e-mail saying he liked my roguelike graphics and wanted to know if he could use them in a game he was developing (Called 'Venture Forth') a 2d overhead RPG in the style of Angband/Nethack/Rogue etc. I wanted to know more about this guy and he said he is the one who created Space Empires IV. He also mentionned his company was called Malfador Machinations. I couldn't exactly sell him the rights to a tileset that I had already made freely available in the roguelike community, so I worked out a deal where he could use them if he sent me a complimentry copy of SE4:Gold.

We know who got the better end of that bargain,.. ME!

Well, I also managed to convince him to upgrade the game to my isometric tiles and he liked that idea. I had fun making all kinds of new tiles and played with the UI and stuff. (Wanting to give the game a look that would match my retro tileset.) The end result you all know as Dungeon Odyssey.

Aaron seemed to value my working style and the experience I brought to the dev team, and invited me to beta StarFury. (It's always good to have an artist on any beta team, because you know we can't resist doing artwork at the drop of a hat. )

While working on the SF Beta, Aaron asked if I would be interested in doing some UI stuff for SE:V (Yes he can ask silly questions sometimes )

Along this journey I met all you fine people and have had an absolute great time being an active member of this community.

So, what was the poll about? Oh yes, "How did you hear about SE4 Gold?"

I guess I can honestly say I heard about it directly from Aaron Hall himself, no second hand rumors, no hearsay, no advertisment, just a simple "Hi, I'm Aaron Hall, I created Space Empires and I really like your RPG tiles.." What a wonderful way to start a friendship.

Sorry for rambling, but this thread has sparked a nice walk down memory lane.

Thanks, and Cheers!

[Caduceus]

I was looking for the old "Empire" game Online and found SE3. Downloaded it, loved it, bought it, continued to play it until a few weeks ago when I finally caved and bought SE4.

Wildcard

[Gryphin]

Was telling a friend how much I loved Empire Deluxe and trying to get him to buy it. He told me of the Online review of SE III. That led to occasional searches for SE III sites which lead to these forums which lead to......

[Renegade 13]

I first started with SE2 back about 3 or 4 years ago (when I was about 12 years old!) I knew I loved strategy games, and was obsessed with space, so I tried an internet search for space strategy games, and Voila! there it was. SE2, the beginning of many, MANY hours of gaming fun!

After I found SE2, i went to Malfador's website and found SE3. After I played the demo to death, I finally bought the full Version and loved it.

After I got a little tired of that, I went back to Malfador's website, and found SE4. Downloaded the demo, played it for a LONG time, then finally couldnt' resist buying SE4 Gold. Best money I've ever spent.

[DarkAngel]

Many years ago a friend of mine purchased SE2 cause he thought it looked interesting,invited me over so he had an opponant to play against....been playing SE ever since

[Renegade 13]

Anyone else wanna vote or share stories?

[primitive]

While surfing for a new game I came over this rave review:

http://www.pcgameworld.com/review.php/id/164/

In fact it was so good you could almost suspect the reviewer, a mysterious Scott R Krol, was not totally unbiased

Anyway, thank you Scott. It was all true.