The Strategist 2.4

[jeb_]

Phew, we have finally finished version 2.4 of our turn-based strategy game "The Strategist".

The second iteration of The Strategist was released last autumn, and was an rewrite from an older version created in 2003. We are updating the game mainly to see how much impact it has on publicity and sales (read: how well Steve Pavlina's articles help us ;) ). This last update focuses on the single-player aspect of the game and tries to have a better start-up for new players (added a tutorial and scenario-based campaigns).

Screenshots:
http://www.oxeye.se/images/screens/05_01.jpg
http://www.oxeye.se/images/screens/05_10.jpg
http://www.oxeye.se/images/screens/05_07.jpg
http://www.oxeye.se/images/screens/05_08.jpg
http://www.oxeye.se/images/screens/05_09.jpg

Website: http://www.oxeye.se
Download link: http://www.oxeye.se/files/StrategistInstaller.exe

Comments? Suggestions?

EDIT: Oups, saw that a link to a page with screenshots wasn't allowed.

[Polycount Productions]

Reminds bit of Risk (looking at the screenshots). Good luck with it :)

[Pyabo]

Reminds me more of Lords of Conquest. :) Classic!

[AtmaVegeta]

Looks good! :) Yeah looking at the screens reminds me a lot of Lords of Conquest. I totally love that game! D/L'ing the demo of this now!

[Jesse Aldridge]

I played this a bit last night after seeing it on Game Trove. I wasn't able to get too in to it. I think it's mainly because I got lazy and the tutorial had too many words :) Seriously though, if you could get the tutorial more streamlined -- take out like two out of every three words, it could help out the game a lot. Just focus on making it as minimal as possible. ...Or maybe I'm just lazy ;)

Specifically, the part I gave up on was the Blitz segment of the tutorial. I couldn't figure out how to make it work, and didn't care enough to figure it out.

Anyway, good luck!

[jeb_]

Thanks for the comments!

Yes, the tutorial descriptions could perhaps be shorter... I asked a couple of friends, who had never played the game before, if they could understand the tutorial. I guess they put a little more effort into it since I've asked them personally :)