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[Eek-A-Mouse]

Empires of Sorcery is an attempt at a Master of Magic successor by indie company Lucid Dreamers. It is currently in the beginning stages of kickstarter. The videos on the kickstarter page look pretty basic, but the programmer has begun work on the project and does have gameplay to show.

Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lucid-dreamers/empires-of-sorcery

Features:

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A turn-based 4X strategy game: Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate (Davros would be proud). Pretty much a gamer's bread and butter.

A unique yet familiar fantasy world: Elves, dwarves and other fantastic races working alongside (or against) humans in a campaign of diplomacy and/or domination. Fantastic creatures in the roles of enemy, slave, or even potential ally. Parallel planes of existence, separate but subtly interdependent.

An intricate system of magic: Spells from several distinct but overlapping schools, acquired through research or conquest. Spell effects range from simple combat damage, to summoning monsters and binding them to your will, to literally changing the face of the planet.

City management that matters (but not too much): Expand your empire by building or conquering towns. You can rise to supremacy by wiping out other races, or incorporate the strengths of conquered peoples into your growing empire. You don't have to master every aspect of city management to implement a successful strategy, but you can't completely neglect it, either.

Tactical combat puts your strategy to the test: Home-grown military units fight for your cause alongside summoned creatures, all supported by your sorcerous abilities. Build your armies, choose where and when to fight, and may the best emperor win!

Powered by d20 OGL. A role-playing system with many years of success behind it, with roots in the familiar Dungeons & Dragons system. Almost endless variety, but balanced by a play-tested rule set which ensures there is no "master race" or "single best unit in the game."

Undead as a playable race. This is what the world has been waiting for. Yes, a few games have already tried it, but we feel their implementations have been lacking something. We intend to go to the greatest lengths to make the Undead Experience fit seamlessly into the world we're creating and provide something unique, compelling, and most of all, FUN!

Speaking of fun, that's what so many of these games are missing.We are trying to make a game we would want to play, and we hope you want to play it too. To that end, we will strive to provide enough complexity to challenge experienced 4X gamers while still keeping it simple enough for the casual gamer to jump in and enjoy.

Another MoM-like is good imo. Looks promising and it will be interesting to see how the kickstarter goes.

[ScriptWolf]

Damn it these kickstarters are making me poor, still debating on this one

[fenrif]

Using the D20 system and citing how balanced it is is like developing for DOS and citing how modern it is.

[Sergius]

Using the D20 system and citing how balanced it is is like developing for DOS and citing how modern it is.

Psh. Next you're going to say that my MMORPG entirely based on 1st Edition grappling rules isn't cutting edge.

[Alkhemia]

Undead as a playable race. This is what the world has been waiting for. Yes, a few games have already tried it, but we feel their implementations have been lacking something. We intend to go to the greatest lengths to make the Undead Experience fit seamlessly into the world we're creating and provide something unique, compelling, and most of all, FUN!

RTS and 4x need more undead as playable faction the only really good one is Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne so i'll put some money for this.

[Cthulhu]

I've got a feeling with this one, a kind of nameless sense that this one won't make it.  A lot of high-work unlimited rewards and starting the all-previous-rewards thing early might be part of it.  These guys are going to be swamped if the game takes off big.

[nenjin]

On the plus side, their goal seems eminently reasonable for what they're presenting.

[Neonivek]

I know I am not one to criticise the game on graphics

But that only counts for Technical graphics... Artistically something about this looks very bland and kinda ugly.

[tootboot]

Whatup, just cloning one of the best games of all time on a shoestring budget, no biggie.

[Sonlirain]

I kinda hope they rework the graphics.
The terrain is not fluid in my eyes. Even compared to MoM where two mountain titles nearby formed a mountain range ETC.
Here i'ts just 2 identical mountain titles and that's it. Gameplay wise it's the same but aestetically fluid terrain features just look way better.

[hemmingjay]

It seems I am buying all of my games 1-3 years in advance now.

[Trollheiming]

It used to be that you paid for a finished product. Then there was a shift to paying for a beta. Then an alpha.

Now we pay for the concept art and UI design mock-ups.

[Shades]

It used to be that you paid for a finished product. Then there was a shift to paying for a beta. Then an alpha.
Now we pay for the concept art and UI design mock-ups.

When we can charge just for design concepts is when I will start making money (guess I could just get back into consultancy)

Mostly ptw, not sure I want to donate to this just yet but I'd certainly like a good, and ideally pretty, MoM clone/successor.

[Werdna]

I wish them the best, but I'll be waiting for reviews/demo.  I'm happy enough to fire up the original, so the only way I'd buy a new version is if they can add one thing to a close approximation of the original game - some seriously upgraded AI.

[neotemplar]

After Elemental and how that went I think almost everyone is highly suspicious of any MOM successors.