Hi everyone, Brett here from Breich Games. Space Empires 4X’s detailed combat system, hidden information, and economic decisions are key designs that make the game shine. In digital format, each of these becomes much easier to manage. (As a reminder, the digital version is now called Space Imperia 4X.) Economic Bookkeeping One of the primary […]
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Designer Jim Krohn discusses his excitement about the digital version I am soooo excited that Space Empires 4X is going digital. I absolutely love playing it over the board and always will, but it is going to be completely awesome to just knock off a few moves against an AI in Space Imperia 4X (the
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More of GMT’s Digital Offerings that allow you to “Play GMT Games Anytime, Anywhere. As I noted in our first article, we have created, in cooperation with individual programmers and digital game platforms, numerous ways for customers to experience our boardgames on your digital devices. We’ve done this for one large, underlying reason: We want
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The stewardship of the U.S. economy is one of the most important political concerns for modern U.S. presidents, and American economic performance has a large and undeniable impact on election outcomes. Yet Mr. President isn’t, and doesn’t want to be, a macroeconomic simulator. The complexity of macroeconomic modeling, the limited effectiveness of most economic tools,
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Since Exia and GMT announced the digital adaptation of Mr. President, players have often observed that a lot has happened since 2020 (the end of the era Mr. President covers). Mr. President covers a recent time period, well within living memory, and all but the youngest players will vividly remember many of the real-life crises
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GMT’s Digital Offerings allow you to “Play GMT Games Anytime, Anywhere.” We have created, in cooperation with individual programmers and digital game platforms, numerous ways for customers to experience our boardgames on your digital devices. We’ve done this for one large, underlying reason: We want players to be able to engage with and experience the
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We call Mr. President a sandbox game. One important reason for this is the large Crisis deck, which provides players a widely variable set of unexpected challenges in every game. There are a lot of curve balls the game can throw at a player, but the barrage of Crisis Cards is one of the most
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Why make a PC version of Mr. President? There are no titles in GMT’s catalog for which the answer is more obvious. Mr. President: The American Presidency 2000-2020 is Gene’s magnum opus, a wide-ranging, deeply researched labor of love. It models the enormous responsibilities the President must assume when he – or she! – takes
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Digital Versions of our GamesHey everyone! My name is Matt Brand. I work at GameTheory in Burlington, VT, and I am the primary developer on the digital version of Dominant Species by GMT Games. I am finishing up the Artificial Intelligence (AI) portion of the game right now, and wanted to give a little window into the creation of
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Digital Versions of our GamesHi Everyone! This update is to let you guys know that we are making good progress on both the digital and the physical rewards for our Twilight Struggle project! I know last month’s update might have been a bit of a downer, as you read about delays on both the digital and physical fronts. So I’m
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