Here comes the Golden Age of Civilizations, a semi turn-based MMO strategy game, inspired by, but not following by the classic games of the genre, such as Age of Empires, Civilization and Rise of Nations; mixed up with MMO capability and flavored with the best parts of other good online games.

Who am I?

My name is Gábor Auth, a Java developer, a Linux administrator, an IT architect, organizer of some meetups topic of Java and IT in Hungary and speaker of some IT conference. Here is my CV:

http://wiki.javaforum.hu/display/~auth.gabor/Curriculum+Vitae

What is it?

I have a dream: I'm going to create an MMO strategy game! :)

The players can move or act with their units on the map, build new cities and units, build and improve resources nearby their cities and facilities in their cities. The improved resource (farmland, forest, mine, ...) gives more production to the nearby city and the improved facilities (barrack, wall, court, ...) give more power to the player's units and cities.

The game is semi-turn-based, each unit type has a different time to next move or act after the previous action, so that (for example) you move your Settlers unit at 10pm if the last action has been performed at 8pm with this unit because of the Settlers unit has two hours per action "speed".

The players choose technologies to research to improve their cities and units and allow to build new units or facilities. You can earn technology points and you can improve your technology point income by improve facilities in your cities and improve resources nearby your cities.

The players can initiate negotiations with the neighborhoods, so that you have the decision to declare war, make peace, remain neutral or organize an empire with them. Each empire has a government type (despotism, monarchy, republic, ...), so that the suitable players will be officers in the government of own empire.

Would you like to try it?

https://test.gacivs.info
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.gacivs.android.test

I have not finished yet, it runs only in browsers and Android cell phones, but it works. Join and play with hundreds of players! :)

I want to release early and release often, so the current version is simple, but the feature set is growing week-to-week!

What is it technically?

I started working on my game on spring of 2014. I researched the possibly best architecture based on cutting edge technologies and industrial best practices, it is scalable vertically (better and bigger hardware) and horizontally (more hardware).

I deployed it on cloud, I bought a domain name and SSL certifications, so I spent only a little more than $120 on this project, thanks a lot to open source and cloud technologies!

Some technology facts about the project:

• Agile development
• Open source (LGPL 2.1)
• Based on Java, JavaEE and JavaScript
• The primary target platform is HTML5 browser
• The secondary target platform is Android
• The third target platform is iOS (and/or Windows Phone)

What do I need?

So, this is my hobby project, I do not need your money for expensive hardware and software components, I will focus only the game development and hire subcontractors for artworks and other tasks that I can't do.

What do you get?

The game will go to production with freemium model, the players can join free and play free, but they can pay for features and benefits. What features and benefits? Bonus experience points and you can distribute these points to various skills.

And you can adopt a feature, a bug or an improvement!

So, I have a dream... one day I will publish this game... please help me! :)

Yes! You can help!

Please support it, donate it, test it, share it on social networks, share your opinions with me, discuss about the game with your friends... :)

Links

The public test: https://test.gacivs.info/
The Android test: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.gacivs.android.test

Social

The portal page: https://portal.gacivs.info
The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/gacivs
The Twitter page: https://twitter.com/gacivs
The Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/+GacivsInfoSite/