Star Empire

A very simple game of planetary conquest.

The game

The maps is a graph of planets, each one connected to a few other planets. Ships can travel along these connections to take over enemy planets.

Planets produce ships at a steady rate; they can be conquered by flying more ships there than are currently on the planet. A slight wrinkle is that planets can have 'shields', each of which must be defeated by a ship first.

Planets can also be upgraded to produce ships faster (economic) or be better defended (defensive).

The code

I'm currently working on 2d.rkt, which contains an as-yet-unfinished implementation of the game mechanics in two dimensions.

I played around with racket's pict3d library in 3d.rkt, but put that on hold in favour of getting the game mechanics right in the 2D version first.