Comments on: Link Bundle, You Should Play Dyson Again

By: unique_identifier

unique_identifier — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:09:36 +0000

is galcon that multiplayer realtime risk thing with spaceships & planets ? – yes, google tells me it is. pretty much the same mechanic as dyson, but actually fun cause you get to play against people.

By: l1ddl3monkey

l1ddl3monkey — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:38:02 +0000

Note to self: never again play this after eating those “special brownies” your GF made for you, unless you want drool all down your front again.

By: Wedge

Wedge — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:05:49 +0000

I wish I could wake up on time to kill you all on Saturday. With my new totally OP Lasher.

By: Muzman

Muzman — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:57:05 +0000

I hadn’t played the new version the last time I was yakking about this.
I like that travel from a given asteroid has a radius now, but I miss being able to bail my seedlings across the map like space gypsies to proloing the agony in a losing game.
Also none of the levels seem to have the same scope as the old version (where the asteroid surrounds the sun or something). The move to a lot of faster games is a good one, but I do miss the sense that out there somewhere there’s another super colony growing that I won’t meet until the end and then its all in (provided I’m winning in my section of space, o’course).
New graphical touches are nice like linking the stats to the shape of the seedlings. Nice trees and things too.
I was thinking how cool it’d be in a sort of planar 2.5D with a bit of shallow focus. Not sure what that’d add to the game besides looking cool, but there you go.
Now I gotta check out the newer one.

By: Noc

Noc — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:36:57 +0000

This is the most soothing game of violent conquest I have ever played.

A waypoint system would be nice, though. Not even to send pods on complex routes, but just to have planets automatically redirect to others.

By: Frank Lantz

Frank Lantz — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:38:02 +0000

Dyson is lovely. I love this new mini-genre, sort of a real-time Spaceward Ho! You got Dyson, Nanowar on Kongregate, and best of all Galcon. Galcon is basically the Starcraft of iPhone games. In all seriousness I think it’s possibly better than Starcraft. Galcon:Go::Starcraft:Chess or something like that. Anyway… Galcon.

By: Rosti

Rosti — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:01:58 +0000

The first build of Dyson I played (1.00? Why not) will always have a place in my heart for being a super-basic equivalent of Multiwinia. Which isn’t something I thought would be possible.

On the other hand: Scenarios! Content! Structure! I haven’t played enough to say too much, but it’s looking very good.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:08:46 +0000

Anyone else prefer 1.00 dyson to 1.08 dyson?

By: truth

truth — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:30:21 +0000

PATHOLOGIC SUCKS

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By: Victersee

Victersee — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:54:16 +0000

Oh I love dyson.

Also, there is a flash game that heavily borrows on dyson: Check out “Star Baron” on your favourite flash source.

By: Powerhaus

Powerhaus — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:52:04 +0000

1.10 is out

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:29:38 +0000

Read the TW article in PCG. Was pretty enlightening. How does it feel to be the first person to get their hands on Empire properly, eh Jim? I;ve never completed a TW campaign, but in the umpteen hours of play the games give, they always a hit that I can come back to.

I’m intrigued in the upcoming Planetside event. With no stats, we can’t tell if we’re winning (even though we clearly are), so we need more organised player rallies. For the Horace!