It's been over three months since I've had a chance to post anything, but I'm happy to report that the updater code is done and pretty well smoke tested.
 

Well, if you're looking for an epic Star-Empires-like game involving space combat, political maneuvering, resource management, and technology advancements, here it is.  Twilight Imperium (TI) from Fantasy Flight Games is the mega experience you're looking for.

Here are a couple of Star-Empires-like games to keep you busy while things are still churning here.  While I tend to favor turn-based games over real-time games, I've found both of these to be addictive.

Happy Thanksgiving, all.  I know it's a been a while without any news.  Things are moving along with the new version, albeit more slowly than planned.  The good news is that the updater is almost complete.  I hope to start testing it within the next week or two, and I may recruit a few veteran players who don't mind coding up their orders line-by-line old-school fashion until the GUI is ready.  
 

Casey's been doing further work on the GUI prototype, as you can see in this snapshot.  The portals and connection lines are new.  Head on over to his demo site anytime to play with the prototype.
 

Yehuda Berlinger over at Purple Pawn gave Star Empires a quick shout-out.

 
Thanks, Yehuda.  I'll consider myself switfly kicked.  I'm shooting for a playable beta game in January 2009.

Not a great deal of visible progress this week.  I'm building out the turn updater phase by phase (I think I have all of four phases done at this point) and Casey's been prototyping out some under-the-hood mechanics of the user interface.  
 

While everyone's waiting for Star Empires to come back online, I thought it might be fun to add some other content to the site, starting with some game reviews.  I posted the first one today (for a card game called Space Station Assault) and I'm going to continue my theme of space combat games as I get time.  If anyone else would like to review some games, please contact me and I'll set you up.  
 

Space Station Assault is a two-player card game from Your Move Games.  Each player controls a fleet of ships that are use to defend his lone space station and to destroy his opponent's ships and accumulate the necessary 60 victory points to win.

I'm going to try to make weekly entries here to let everyone follow the progress of the game development.  It'll also give me impetus to get stuff done each week so I have something to write about. :)