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Aurora - 4X space strategy game

  • 17-04-2011 07:51PM
    #1
    Raging_Ninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭


    I just found out about this game. Its for more hardcore micromanagement types.

    The game is free. It has basic graphics, and involves mainly spreadsheets Similar to Dwarf Fortress. I haven't played it yet, but my interest is definitely piqued.

    http://aurora2.pentarch.org/

    Basically people get a solar system or some such and get to create the infrastructure to design and build their fleets and hammer into aliens or take the diplomacy and trade route.

    It looks like you can have realistic solar systems based on the real galaxy,or a randomized galaxy.

    The graphics are simply, and look like they are based on a radar screen type format. Kind of like if you played Homeworld 2 from the scanner.

    This is an image some guy took of a three hostile fleets entering the Sol System:
    http://i52.tinypic.com/kdpfd1.png

    The Sol System with asteroids, planets etc marked out:
    http://img13.imageshack.us/f/ohgodwat.png/

    An AAR setup from the developer of the game:
    http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,2486.0.html

    The Wargamer forum, where the developer gives a game description in the form of an AAR:
    http://www.wargamer.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=397359

    I am honestly getting very interested in this game.


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