Solar Realms Elite
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Solar Realms Elite or SRE is a multi-player bulletin board system strategy game similar in design to its successor, Barren Realms Elite (BRE). In Solar Realms Elite, players rule a solar empire. The goal is to become and remain the most powerful empire. Players gain strength by buying forces, and gain size by colonizing planets. Players start with several planets and a little bit of money. They must provide food and spend money to maintain the population, army, and planets, or suffer riots and civil unrest. New players are given a short period of protection, during which they cannot attack or be attacked. Players can forge alliances, interact with AI pirates, and wage war with competitors using conventional, guerilla, nuclear, chemical, and covert attacks.
SRE was written by Amit Patel in 1990.[1] It started as a clone of Space Empire Elite (SEE),[2] an Atari ST BBS game written by Jon Radoff, and soon branched in new directions. A similar PC game also inspired by SEE called Space Dynasty by Hollie Satterfield was in circulation around the same time. The last version of SRE (0.994b) was released in 1994.
After SRE was released, the author's brother, Mehul Patel, wrote a similar game called Alpha Colony IV. Mehul then wrote BRE, Falcon's Eye, and The Arcadian Legends, the so-called "SRGAMES." This collection of games was sold to John Dailey Software [1], but SRE was not included in the deal because Amit lost the game's source code in 1996.
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[edit] References
- ^ Amit Patel’s Home Page (his Standford page, accessed July 10, 2011)
- ^ "Amit Patel's post to alt.bbs.doors explaining when he began writing SRE". Google Groups. Google. 16 January 1999. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.bbs.doors/browse_thread/thread/452ba0b226af6c8d/0781258f6cb3ee63?lnk=st&rnum=1&hl=en#0781258f6cb3ee63. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
[edit] External links
- SRE v0.994b
- Amit J. Patel's homepage
- SRE documentation in HTML format
- Amit J. Patel's notes on SRE's game design
- Solar Realms Elite at the Open Directory Project
- FAQ about getting SRE from John Dailey Software.
- Series of short stories based on Solar Realms Elite
- - A web game based on Solar Realms Elite
- Solar Imperium - A web game based on Solar Realms Elite
- Starpires - A MMO empire building game inspired by Solar Realms Elite
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