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Galaxy Conquest

Take over the galaxy, fighting for space against as many as 4 players, human and computer. Place your planets to take over your opponent's systems to win in one of 4 main modes of gameplay. Watch out also for hidden special systems, which can both hinder and facilitate your path to utter conquest

Developer: Blade Edge Software
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Release Date: 2007
Publisher: None/Unknown
DeveloperWhat I DidDifficulty of DevelopmentAnecdote
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Game Design; Level DesignStill having nightmaresGalaxy Conquest was actually spawned from the IGDA Philadelphia's 2-week game programming challenge. It lost to such a weak space invaders ripoff I almost quit the games industry. However the rage gave me the motivation to build exactly one million levels and finally unpack the last few boxes I had left in my apartment.
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Design, ProgrammingHarder than PlannedThe idea for this game was based off Othello as well as a Flash game called "pooplyhazard", which used octopuses in place of planets to achieve much the same gameplay. It was prototyped in less than a month by a 4-man part-time team (artist, designer, programmer, musician) for a local game contest. After playing with the prototype, we realized this had potential and started full development