Thursday, August 9, 2012

Goodgame Empire

Good Game Empire


Good Game Empire was released August 31, 2011 by Good Game Studios. I actually started playing the game because my girlfriend found it browsing the web looking for games to play. As I am addicted to games the require strategic thinking, I quickly signed up and began my journey to create and empire.

The Art of Defending - Goodgame Empire Strategy Guide 


    Now the game itself is quite interesting. The game is based or takes place during the medieval time period. You start the game off doing a brief tutorial catching a glimpse of what is going to unfold as you progress throughout the game, by quickly constructing a few buildings and sending a prebuilt army off to attack a castle. After completing the opening tutorial, you are rewarded your very own empire in which you have to build, protect, harvest materials, train soldiers and conquer opposing enemy empires. You can forge alliances, declare war, and support other players. This is the bases to why I continue to play, to become the largest empire ever to play the game.
    The game is played in a real time fashion, meaning you don't necessarily have to baby sit the game constantly. Gathering resources, constructing buildings and weapons, going to war and recruiting soldiers all take time. This is not a super fast  paced game, giving those with limited time a fighting chance as you can check in periodically during the day. I myself, frequently check the status of my empire on breaks, lunch breaks and randomly throughout the evenings.
    Starting off at level 1, things are very limited. You basically build your empire from scratch. The first five levels or so introduce you to the various game play mechanics and options available during game play, with additional options becoming available as you level and gain experience.
    The first thing you will notice is that you have resources listed at the top of your screen; wood, iron, food as well rubies and coins located on the left side of the game screen. These are the resources available to use through the game.

That is all for now but stay tuned for my very own strategy guide that I followed when I first started playing the game to maximize potential in this on going battle for power in Empire!

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