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The Great Battles of Alexander is a computer wargame. [1] [2] It recreates the historical military exploits of Alexander the Great via turn-based gameplay.[3] [1] The game takes place on a hex map, and simulates combat at the tactical level; the player navigates an army of predetermined units on discrete battlefields, in a manner that PC PowerPlay compared to chess. [3]
Alexander ' s gameplay shares several similarities to that of the Cossacks series, [1] with elements of the Age of Empires series and Age of Mythology. The game's map covers the area from Macedonia to India. [2] In a player's first playthrough, they can only play as Alexander, but after beating the game players can play campaigns as Egypt ...
Category for free and open-source and proprietary software that runs on various operating systems, that is used to develop video games. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Scott Miller (born 1961) is an American video game designer, programmer, and entrepreneur best known for founding Apogee Software (which later became 3D Realms) in 1987. . Starting with the Kroz series for MS-DOS from that year, Miller pioneered the concept of giving away the first game in a trilogy—distributed freely as shareware—with the opportunity to purchase the remaining two episode
During that game's development, the company formed a relationship with id Software, which was briefly located on the same street. Raven spent the next few years working primarily on PC games in partnership with id, making ShadowCaster (1993) with a game engine by id Software and three games in the Heretic series between 1994 and 1997 with id as ...
The only titles it published were a trilogy of games by Raven Software, which use modified versions of game engines developed by id and featured id employees as producers. A fourth game, Strife, was briefly under development by Cygnus Studios and was to be published by id; after a few months it was cancelled. [104]
Other subsidiaries included First Byte, Maverick Software, Fas-Track and Educational Resources [3] as well as Gryphon Software. [ 1 ] Davidson & Associates was known chiefly for their Blaster series of educational games, including Math Blaster as well as their licensed games based on the products of Fisher-Price .
The Software Toolworks, Inc. (commonly abbreviated as Toolworks), was an American software and video game developer based in Novato, California. The company was founded by Walt Bilofsky in 1980 out of his Sherman Oaks garage, which he converted into an office, to develop software for the Heathkit H89 microcomputer .