Interview with the Merchant Empires creator

Interview with the Merchant Empires creator

I came across a Linux Gazette interview with Bryan Brunton, who was the creator of the Merchant Empires browser strategy game, and I found it very interesting and of course on-topic for this forum section.

Excerpt: [...] a browser based gaming environment has advantages that I value. I looked at a number of similarly directed projects before writing ME. Many of them had stalled or the developers had spent six months time writing a server and client with no playable game to show for their efforts. I wanted to spend my time immediately writing game code. [...] As far as what makes a good game, I have always enjoyed intelligent turn-based game play, not frames per second.

Read the full text at http://linuxgazette.net/issue63/brunton.html.

I read the full text and find the interview quite interesting and informative. I hope interviews like these will b posted in future.

Where would one get a copy of this game?

You can find one server for ME at http://www.advancedpowers.com/index.html, and (the) source code can be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4312. As far as the source code is concerned, I don't know whether the URL I listed is of one of the forks or the original.

Thanks! Maybe it will say inside. :)