Empire Classic

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Empire
Developer(s) Peter Langston, Ben Norton
Designer(s) Peter Langston, Ben Norton
Platform(s) PDP 11/45 (1971), HP2000 (1973), HP3000 (1984), DOS, Commodore Amiga, Macintosh, Windows, Linux (2003)
Release date(s) 1971, 1973, 1984, 2003
Genre(s) 4X, wargame

Empire is a 4X wargame created in 1972 by Peter Langston, taking its name from a Reed College board game of the same name.[1] It was initially created by Langston in BASIC on an HP2000 minicomputer at Evergreen State College.[2] When the host computer was retired, the source code to Civilization was lost. Subsequently, two other authors each independently wrote a new version of the game, both named Empire.

The game is turn-based, with players giving orders at their convenience, and in some versions then executed simultaneously by the game server at set intervals ranging from a few hours to once per day. The game world consists of "sectors", which may be designated as agricultural, industrial, etc. There are dozens of unit types requiring a variety of raw and manufactured materials for their creation. "Blitz" games may last a few hours, typical games a few months, and some larger games up to a year. Numerous variants of Empire were created during the over the following decades for different computer systems.[3][4]

Peter S. Langston version

Peter Langston's 1972 version was developed while he was on staff at Evergreen State College in BASIC on an HP2000 minicomputer.

Derivatives of this program include:

Ben Norton version

This version of Empire was written in 1984 in Pascal on an HP3000 and released to the HP3000 Contributed Library. It is also known as Empire Classic, or alternatively as HP Classic Empire and HP Empire Classic.

In 2003, the game was ported to the C++ programming language for the Linux operating system, and a subsequent Java client/server version was produced.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Langston on Empire vs Empire, Peter Langston, 2011-01-15
  2. ↑ http://wolfpackempire.com/peter.langston-on-birthdate.txt
  3. ↑ Gray, Chris (2005-04-24). "Compilers and Programming Languages". www.GraySage.COM.
  4. ↑ http://empire.floogle.net/
  5. ↑ Gray, Chris (2005-04-24). "Compilers and Programming Languages". www.GraySage.COM.
  6. ↑ http://empire.floogle.net/

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