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Homages to
the games we love.

Old worlds, new ways to play. Strategy, discovery, and stories shaped by your choices—a collection for the curious player.

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The collection

Choose your next adventure

The collection.

From a battlefield of hexes to a galaxy of hidden stars, a dungeon to explore, or a story whose next chapter is yours.

A printed hex map with opposing armies, aircraft and naval counters

Turn-based hex strategy

Ars Imperii

A meeting of early 4X games—Stellar Empires, Empire and Empire Deluxe—with the hex-based board wargames that came before them. Explore, capture cities and command armies, aircraft and fleets against friends or the computer.

  • Play by turns
  • Computer opponents
  • 1–4 players
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A Color Computer keyboard beneath a television showing the bright green Stellar Empires star map

TRS-80 Color Computer, 1982

Stellar Empires

The underappreciated galactic conquest classic: a "4x" game before the term for the genre was invented, and the primary reason I'm into programming today. Ported lovingly line-by-line from the TRS-80 Color Computer code, now with online multiplayer for up to four admirals. Send out your starships, and mind the ghost fleets!

Adapted and presented here with the approval of the original authors: Graham Wilson, original author, TRS-80, Model I; Ted & Drew Shorter: CoCo port (with computer players added by Drew)

  • Simultaneous turns
  • Computer opponents
  • 2–4 players
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A dragon, castle and blue quill unfurl across golden parchment

Choose your own next chapter

StoryWeaver

An homage to the Choose Your Own Adventure books: turn the page, make a choice, and see where the story takes you. Follow illustrated branching tales, type an unexpected action, or write your own pages—with AI to help spin the next chapter.

  • Branching stories
  • Choose or type
  • AI-assisted
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A boy reads beneath a tree as fantasy, science fiction and Regency worlds emerge from his book

Your words move the world

WorldWeaver

An homage to Zork and the open-ended adventures of Dungeons & Dragons and other RPGs. Type what you want to do, explore a living world, and meet characters who remember. Your choices leave their mark as the story grows around you.

  • Free-text adventures
  • Persistent worlds
  • Characters with memory
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A game with a history

The stars have
a story to tell.

Stellar Empires began on the TRS-80 in 1982. Its path through cassette magazines, the Color Computer, and family tinkering is part of the reason it lives here today.

Enter the galaxy
Essay I The program, its significance, and the project Essay II Porting and an early open-source community Podcast · Geek Orthodox The Tale of My Beloved Stellar Empires

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