{"id":219,"date":"2020-05-12T03:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T03:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopoesis.com\/?page_id=219"},"modified":"2022-10-13T15:42:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T15:42:47","slug":"services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/geopoesis.com\/?page_id=219","title":{"rendered":"About \u2013 geopoesis: RTS game : terraform hostile planets &#8211; geopoesis.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"min-height:300px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-ast-global-color-2-background-color has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-585\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/geopoesis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/milky-way-nebula-space-1845068.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopoesis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/milky-way-nebula-space-1845068.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/geopoesis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/milky-way-nebula-space-1845068-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopoesis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/milky-way-nebula-space-1845068-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/geopoesis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/milky-way-nebula-space-1845068-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-heading\" id=\"about\" style=\"color:#00ff00\">About\u200b<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size\" style=\"color:#00ff00\">As at this moment (Mar-22) Geopoesis is a small, independent developer with a big bag of game ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size\" style=\"color:#00ff00\">The two games featured on this site, Geopoesis: Eos, is really a beta for a much more ambitious game.&nbsp; We hope you enjoy it enough to give us the confidence to expand and bring the bigger idea to life.&nbsp; Please use the contact page to send us your thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size\" style=\"color:#00ff00\">The inspiration for the game comes from our curiosity in three topics:<br>1) Compute kernel in Apple\u2019s Metal and the ability it gives developers to squeeze big performance out of the limited power of a phone platform by shifting async calculations to the GPU.<br>2) Particles and their swarm like behaviour (loved that bit in Star Trek Beyond).<br><meta charset=\"utf-8\">3) An interest we have had for sometime to try and move the game of chess into a sci-fi setting and add different behaviour to the pieces. &nbsp;Specifically, we wanted to design gameplay where securing, and [spoiler alert] sometimes sacrificing, territorial gain is a key strategy on a board-type layout which uses pieces with different local effects in the same way knights and pawns control different types of space.&nbsp; This is version one and, with enough interest, we\u2019d love to develop a new version with more complex pieces and gameplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size\" style=\"color:#00ff00\">As for what\u2019s next for the Geopoesis world \u2026 if we make a little profit from Eos &#8230; then we want to &#8230;<br>1) Build a new world with a load more difficult levels.<br>2) Develop the lore around Geopoesis.<br>3) Hire an artist to make the graphics better (we know the bases are a bit poor to say the least !).<br>4) We would love to improve the particle algorithms and increase the number of particles to make it a visual fireworks fest.<br>5) Following on from the Geopoesis poetic idea, we want to develop ways to reward the elegance with which players conquer each level.&nbsp; Maybe the Architect gifts blessings or something.&nbsp; We need to figure it out but for sure, all wins should not be rewarded equally.<br>6) Add additional functionality (especially for the alien AI).<br>7) Upgrade game maths need improvement.  You can complete almost all levels without upgrading.  One needs it \ud83d\ude09<br>8) We would love to combine the high level strategy of the current game with a requirement to also manage the individual swarms of drones at a close-up tactical level.&nbsp; Imagine to zoom down to the near surface and flip from 2D strategic to 3D close up control of the drones and how they carry out their work &#8211; sure this is a big ambition but we have some really cool ideas to enable this zoomed in feature to add FPS type game action on a phone plus we already have the Metal code to take it all into 3D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size\" style=\"color:#00ff00\">Finally \u2026 and this is big .. we are also working on 3D space game around combining sailing, the mathematics of knots, solar storms and universe mirrors.&nbsp; We already managed to get the 3D Metal stuff working on iPhone with really amazing results from a simple phone but this project is big and we need to see some traction from Geopoesis before hiring in a bit of help to realise it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size\" style=\"color:#00ff00\">We would be delighted to hear any feedback.&nbsp; 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