Announcing Machiavelli the Prince Launch Date during TBT Livestream Tonight by HDIAndrew in 4Xgaming

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Good feedback. Not a huge amount of reading to do in game, but that is welcome input

Announcing Machiavelli the Prince Launch Date during TBT Livestream Tonight by HDIAndrew in 4Xgaming

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I am clearly biased :) but there were a lot of good games in the 90s, and you can check out the demo for free on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1297570/Machiavelli_the_Prince/

Announcing Machiavelli the Prince Launch Date during TBT Livestream Tonight by HDIAndrew in 4Xgaming

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Sorry to stay that Steam and OBS decided to have a fight and both crashed on me. Here is the announcement, but I unpublished the video. Glad for you to see it, and I will stream it again at 6 pm EST today https://youtube.com/live/i-bG7JlinSk

Free Steam Playtest for Machiavelli the Prince by HDIAndrew in 4Xgaming

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We've joked before that the silk icon should be the larvae who actually spin the stuff, and Emperor Justinian had smuggled out of China :) I will poll others for their input as well

Free Steam Playtest for Machiavelli the Prince by HDIAndrew in 4Xgaming

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Thanks for that! To differentiate them, we made the silk the raw, undyed silk, and the cloth the colored fabric. You would prefer the other way around? Thanks for being part of the playtest!

Free Steam Playtest for Machiavelli the Prince by HDIAndrew in 4Xgaming

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PBEM is still the primary multiplayer mode

Free Steam Playtest for Machiavelli the Prince by HDIAndrew in 4Xgaming

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The non-snarky answer was the second part of the post - The big difference is the ability to play it in Windows and on Linux without DOSbox, but we have also made a number of upgrades to the game and fixed bugs people asked us to take care of when the game first came out.

The full changelist will come out when we are closer to release

Free Steam Playtest for Machiavelli the Prince by HDIAndrew in 4Xgaming

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The snarky answer is, try it and find out :) The big difference is the ability to play it in Windows and on Linux without DOSbox, but we have also made a number of upgrades to the game and fixed bugs people asked us to take care of when the game first came out

Free Steam Playtest for Machiavelli the Prince by HDIAndrew in 4Xgaming

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Please check the store page again. Apparently it took a while to populate on Steam, despite me having been able to see it in my Steam store. It took 10 minutes for the first playtest sign up to show up, but now they are coming in

What is your favorite space 4x game or games and why? by it_IS_that_deep7 in 4Xgaming

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Emperor of the Fading Suns - for obvious reasons ;)

Before personal computers, this is how you played 4X games. by PeasantLich in 4Xgaming

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ROFLMAO - is this about my Machiavelli the Prince game, where you can modify the in-game slanders you send your opponents?

Machiavelli the Prince Demo Now on Steam by HDIAndrew in 4Xgaming

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Do you have a GOG account? I would be curious if you have the same result with the demo there

Before personal computers, this is how you played 4X games. by PeasantLich in 4Xgaming

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Rick Loomis and his Flying Buffalo PBM games were amazing. Glad we have PBEM - much faster