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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

634 points david927 | 4 comments | 24 Aug 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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joegibbs ◴[25 Aug 24 01:32 UTC] No.41343553[source]▶
I've been working on a kind of strategy game called Fall of an Empire (https://fallofanempiregame.com), it's a bit like a mix between Crusader Kings, Total War, Mount and Blade type games (just the overworld, not the battles), but rather than expanding you're trying to prevent an empire from collapsing.

It's a ton of work, especially with the number of systems - you've got combat, resource management, settlement development, food managment, espionage, diplomacy etc - these all need to play together well. And then you've got to add in the storyline, graphics, marketing -but I think I'm making pretty good progress.

I'm still using Unreal Engine 4 because I started work on that version and I haven't needed to upgrade to 5 since it's been released. I've got a free prologue that I'm releasing on October 1, so now until then is a lot of polishing to make it work well.

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1. slim ◴[25 Aug 24 07:47 UTC] No.41345322[source]▶
is there a game where you're the indigenous people and you are trying to stop an empire colonizing you ?
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2. fancy_pantser ◴[25 Aug 24 08:19 UTC] No.41345520[source]▶
I wondered this myself and found some. I've played: When Rivers Were Trails, Thunderbird Strike, Dialect, Zulu Dawn, This Land Is My Land. There are a lot of options in boardgames (maybe more than with video games?), such as Burn the Fort.
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3. slim ◴[25 Aug 24 10:24 UTC] No.41346175[source]▶
thank you
4. darby_nine ◴[25 Aug 24 13:36 UTC] No.41347210[source]▶
Most paradox games enable this to some degree. It's pretty limited in terms of imagining what this could look like outside of the european conceptualization of civilization progress but it's there.