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produces ships for that player with more ships at a faster rate produced depending on the planet's size. Players can select what percentage of the ships to send from a planet and players can redirect ships in mid-flight. The aim of the game is to defeat the other player(s) by eliminating all of the enemy planets.
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Players start with 1-3 large "home planets" and send off ships to conquer other planets around them. The numbers on each planet indicate how many ships it will take to conquer them. The numbers on a player's own planet indicate the number of ships that their planet holds. Each planet a player owns
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comes with multiple single-player modes featuring varying degrees of bot difficulty, and an advanced online multiplayer system where players can battle in rooms up to four.
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received excellent reviews, but there was a smaller publicity angle. The InstantAction version was given few public reviews, but the overall rating is high.
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as a basis for the contest problem. For the contest participants wrote programs that competed in a simplified version of the game.
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was given a small introductory price, the number of registered users was very small; however, there is a limited demo version.
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was launched on December 7, 2012. After being successfully funded it was released for iOS on February 6, 2014.
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was one of the first true multiplayer experiences for the iPhone but never gained enough publicity to kick off.
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by Rick Raddatz, a text-based multiplayer computer game released in 1987. This game was based on a game called
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is available for cross platform play on phones, tablets, and PC. It features many new modes of gameplay.
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features four new modes which are both singleplayer and multiplayer compatible.
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also did not receive very many reviews, and mostly failed in the popularity.
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A couple months later, Galcon was released for the iPhone, frequently called
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features dozens of single-player game modes and full multiplayer.
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was released for Mac and Windows as the latest addition to the
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received good reviews and won multiple awards. Both iPhone
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has been received as a very positive addition to the
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