This week Firaxis has announced that it will be offering the New Frontier DLC Pack for Civilization VI. It’s the latest addition to a trend in gaming DLC’s that have been slowly creeping across the industry. Is this pack really worth the $40 they are asking you to pay for this DLC? How does it…
Civ4: Colonization has been an on and off favorite of mine since its release in 2008. I also enjoy this game because of it’s simplicity in game play – you win the game winning a War of Independence and that’s it. Behind this simple concept is the Civilization 4 engine which allows for the significant…
I have uploaded the newest version of the MUD Random Map Generator on EDIBLE. The changes are almost all behind the scenes with the biggest change being I have integrated the MUD Random Map Generator into the new MapScript API. This update will automatically generate the map file for you instead of relying on the…
I have completed an upgrade to the Random Map Generator. It’s available on EDIBLE or with the original REM link. This change replaces the previous version since the output has not changed and the maps are backward compatible. The main change was meant to improve the performance of the map generation process which was causing…
The Random Earth Map generator is posted. You can access the latest version here or find it on EDIBLE along with its supporting unit set. This is not a final version and contains several bugs, but it works which is why I’ve posted it regardless of the issues. In my last update, I commented on…
I completed the first full test run of the Earth Map generator. You may remember the beginning stages of this back in 2018 before shelving it for another project. Well, today I finished it off and successfully loaded the first full Earth map into EDCE with success. The screenshot attached to this post if the…
All last week, and especially this weekend I performed an end to end play testing of MUD. The results were “less than desirable” to put it mildly. Put more correctly, they were downright depressing and made me question the effort I put into my free time over the past month. Be warned, the rest of…
Starting in 2001 NASA began releasing public, detailed imagery allowing modelers to recreate the Earth in high resolution. The project was dubbed Blue Marble in reference to Earth’s appearance from space. This set represents an attempt to bring that imagery to Empire Deluxe through a full enhancement of the original terrain graphics. It is available…
You may have noticed many of my screenshots over the past year feature a darker tile set than the original EDCE graphics. I completed about 80% of this set early last year before I stopped working on it to focus on MUD. With the alpha release out of the way, I’m picking up right where…
It only took a couple of days to find an issue with the recently updated Modern Unit Database. I’ve posted an updated version to EDIBLE. If you downloaded v0.0.1a and already played a few games with it, this version is fully backward compatible and should not affect what you are doing. As a side note,…
