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2717 Dyson [Games]

Finalist at this years Independant Games Festival, Dyson is an ambient real-time strategy game with abstract visuals. Your task is to remotely command semi-autonomous self-replicating mining machines to take over an entire asteroid belt.

Like many other strategy game you begin with few planets populated by your own forces in this case Dyson trees. As you grow more trees so do your seeds replicate ready to inavade a new planet. You can also grow defense trees which produce exploding pods that home in on incoming enemies. You move plant to planet planting seeds for more trees until you reach a planet ocupied by alien trees. You task is to overtake that planet by sending enough seeds to destroy the opposing force. Controlled by mouse, you can choose how many seeds you would like to send to a new planet. The enemy seeds may also attack your planet whilst you are casually moving planet to planet so having defense trees in place is crucial in defending your planets.

Created by Alex May and Rudolf Kremers with music and sound by MILIEU, Dyson is a wonderful and rich step forward in strategy game development. Acompanied by wonderful music, sounds and graphics you will find yourself quickly echanted by unique approach to game’s visual design and gameplay. Watch hours go by as you nurture one planet after another.

The original game was made in one month for the TIGSource Procedural Generation competition. Much of the game’s content has been procedurally generated over time.

Currently, version 1.2 is only available for Windows and Linux platforms but Alex is working on the mac Mac version so join the mailing list to keep up to date with releases. We do hope that the game will also see AppStore. With multitouch controls available on the iPhone, Dyson seems pefrect for the platform.

In any case, where you are a Mac, Windows or Linux user, Dyson is a worthy download. Those on the Mac keen to have a play, Parallels or BootCamp may be your answer. You may be able to run the linux version in Mono from the command line but we are not to sure how to go about that.

Also check out an interesting interview with Alex over at TIGSource.

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