Simstory is a historical real-time strategy game, that will be published by LGaming . It focuses on the years between 500 AC and the end of the Medieval Age. This is the site.
The concept behind Simstory has actually been in the works since fall of 2009. A group of gamers from the Tribal Wars (the InnoGames game) came together to form concepts and ideas for a Rise of Rome (RoR) remake and then a completely new game. We intended to compile our ideas into a proposal and send it to InnoGames (IG), the makers of Tribal Wars.
We were about to disband the project and the game team when a new door was opened to us. A new member joined the team: actually our development consulter. He advised us to make a game based of an open-source RTS engine. Eventually, we chose The Glest Engine.
Secondly a few of my friends inspired us with moral support and a wealth of resources for a game design very similar to the core concept behind our modding project.
We spent the first three months researching just how we would go about undertaking such a project. By that time we had absorbed some of the best and brightest minds from the TW community. This would encompass many areas of the project such as map making, scenario design, AI scripting, RMS scripting, and game design. Many hours of research have gone into the historical background behind the game. The design of the game has been scrutinized and debated for the better part of a year, especially with our history consulter. The programming department kicked into gear shortly afterwards.
It is our goal to give the gamer an experience that is refreshingly innovative but at the same time familiar. We want to capitalize on the S (strategy) in the RTS genre. The game will be strongly guided by history, but not to the point where it hurts gameplay. We plan to make the game very friendly to the end user with lots of replay ability, great modding tools (for example the Development Kit v2.0), and a powerful map/scenario editor. We hope to build a community around the game that will sustain its life for an extended amount of time, in comparison to published game titles.
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