Welcome commander to A.E.T.R.I., the Artificial Intelligence pacification and settlement company of the modern age!
Your task is simple, a few sectors have recently received presence from competitive organizations and these sectors needs to be cleansed if to allow A.E.T.R.I. settlements. Genocide any non-A.E.T.R.I. lifeforms and prepare the sector for settlement.
Aetri is a real time strategy game that's inspired by the classic board games of it's genre.
Click on a blue territory to select the units, click on a neighbouring territory to attack. Every turn the A.E.T.R.I. settlements on planets will spawn new ships for the pacification effort.
Tip if the enemy is too fast: There is a pause option (either click on Pause in the menu or press key 'P' ingame) that allows you to take actions in peace!
Programming created and owned by Oskar Präntare. Art created and owned by Oskar Präntare. Music created and owned by Fredrik Präntare, www.prantare.com Sound effects by SFXR.
Interesting submission! It was so fast that I could barely play it, but I did enjoy what you had. Reminded me of classic board games and stuff like that.
Tips if the enemy is too fast, there's a pause option (either click on Pause in the menu or press key 'P' ingame) that allows you to take actions in peace!
I didn't really understand what happened there. Every time i tried to play I got crushed really hard. I also didn't get what changes when the turn ticks. Some UI would greatly improve it. The lack of story in the game doesn't help you to convey the theme of the game. Good job nonetheless!
Once you figure out what to do, this is a pretty fun fast-clicking strategy! It can be a little hard to keep the focus on the ship you're using sometimes, but until reliable 6 directional controls can be found, I guess that's unavoidable.
I would suggest checking to see if the enemy has any planets or ships left as an end condition, though, since cleaning up the last few enemy squares is a bit of a dissapointing way to finish a well played game.
I got the hang of the game quite quickly even without a tutorial or help screen, it's a nice simple game and I love the idea of an action board game. I found the difficulty wasn't balanced as it was very hard to get anywhere when the game was unpaused, but if I paused it then I could just take over the map unopposed. Very interesting mechanics though, a lot of potential here!
Really good game but really hard! I managed to win once but I had to be really quick and lucky. The sound design and art are neat and bring a nice tense atmosphere. Thank you for this submission. I'd love to see it a little more polished. With smooth camera moves and animated ships :-) Great job!
The tactics you can put into place are nice(like guarding bottlenecks) however sometimes you lose against enemies that are less than you(I nearly won but lost because of this several times, 400 vs 380 in the last game), while that is annoying, comebacks are frequent which is good. Overall nice entry.
Damn nice! IT has been a little too difficult to get in the peace of the game.. but then it was funny and challenging! Ultra fast control battles! Nice! Well done!
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Cake_Catastrophe29 Aug 2015, 14:43
Nice game, it took me a while to figure out, but once I got it, it became a fun game about territory control. The only thing I never quite worked out was why I sometimes seemed to lose to weaker fleets - there didn't seem to be much indication of why this happened (ie, was it randomness or tile-based bonuses etc?).
>Nice game, it took me a while to figure out, but once I got it, it became a fun game about territory control. The only thing I never quite worked out was why I sometimes seemed to lose to weaker fleets - there didn't seem to be much indication of why this happened
Each number represent a dice, making the game similar to Risk - there I added a bonus to the larger fleet in each battle, making it more likely to win.
So yes there's a random chance of loss, though the larger your fleet is compared to the other the smaller the chance to loose the battle is!
I didn't get the idea with the rounds, should I unpress the pause for the AI turn or not? And moving camera with each move looks weird. But thanks for the borad game, i like to see them here.
Interesting idea to have a real-time turn-based hybrid. It's a bit difficult to work out what's going on though and I don't really know how it fits the theme.
"Aetri is a real time strategy game that's inspired by the classic board games of it's genre." You should have tried to simply make it a turn based strategy by default - yes I know there is a pause button - and it would be good. Other than that, the game tries to rush and I know what was your original destination, but you didn't reach that. Summing up: this isn't the next clickfest of the era.
This strategy game is too fast paced to be enjoyable by default for anyone who likes strategy games in the first place.
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Tips if the enemy is too fast, there's a pause option (either click on Pause in the menu or press key 'P' ingame) that allows you to take actions in peace!
Good luck!
Java Swing :)
Some UI would greatly improve it. The lack of story in the game doesn't help you to convey the theme of the game.
Good job nonetheless!
Every time you die or you eliminate all enemies a new map is created. A ending exist though. :)
I would suggest checking to see if the enemy has any planets or ships left as an end condition, though, since cleaning up the last few enemy squares is a bit of a dissapointing way to finish a well played game.
The sound design and art are neat and bring a nice tense atmosphere.
Thank you for this submission.
I'd love to see it a little more polished. With smooth camera moves and animated ships :-)
Great job!
Overall nice entry.
IT has been a little too difficult to get in the peace of the game.. but then it was funny and challenging!
Ultra fast control battles! Nice!
Well done!
Each number represent a dice, making the game similar to Risk - there I added a bonus to the larger fleet in each battle, making it more likely to win.
So yes there's a random chance of loss, though the larger your fleet is compared to the other the smaller the chance to loose the battle is!
You should have tried to simply make it a turn based strategy by default - yes I know there is a pause button - and it would be good.
Other than that, the game tries to rush and I know what was your original destination, but you didn't reach that. Summing up: this isn't the next clickfest of the era.
This strategy game is too fast paced to be enjoyable by default for anyone who likes strategy games in the first place.