Birth of the Empires

Blotunga

About this game

Birth of the Empires (also known as BotE) is a turn-based 4X strategy game set in space in the style of classics such as Microprose's Master of Orion 2 or ST: Birth of the Federation. By choosing one of six major races aim is to gain control and supremacy over a part of the galaxy, either by diplomatic or military means. Further victory conditions are available at game start.

Earth, 2121: Spaceflight coming nearer and the third world war was long in the past, the future looks bright again for mankind. The whole universe with all its fascinating worlds, lifeforms, species and anomalies lies ahead of each brave man and woman aboard their starships eager to find new life, a new home and contact to whatever civilization there may be outside Earth system, to explore the unexplored, to encounter the unencountered.

Take command of one race during the beginning stages of their empire, but beware, there is more than one way leading to victory and each time, mastering it will be different. It will likely change and you are challenged to keep the balance within the galaxy quadrant or seize galactic power for your race and thereby establish your own "balance" in the galaxy!

Android port based on the original Birth of the Empires which can be found here:
http://www.birth-of-the-empires.de.
http://www.forum.birth-of-the-empires.de.

Source code can be found here:
https://bitbucket.org/sarkanyi/bote-libgdx

Credits for the game and assets:
https://bitbucket.org/sarkanyi/bote-libgdx/src/0da681e83f451dd428ecdc46adb96494943ce8a6/android/assets/data/other/credits.txt?at=master

A tutorial video is planned, the first version can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPUyuJFnNJ0

A video with commentary is also planned. Until then consult this short FAQ:
https://bitbucket.org/sarkanyi/bote-libgdx/src/fb14967a77f48ba61809624bc52531e14e0013ae/faq.txt?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default
I will update it as soon as questions arise.

WARNING: For best experience at least a 6" screen is recommended, else fonts and buttons might be too small.
WARNING #2: There is a new Option called "Enable Preload". If you had no issues before version 0.6.19 then you can safely enable it to make the UI snappier. If you had issues then DON'T enable it.
If you have enabled it by accident and your game doesn't starts please go into the device's Settings-Application Manager-Birth of the Empires and tap "Clear Data" and "Clear Cache". This will unfortunately also delete your savegames.

You can from now on follow me on Twitter @blotunga and if you're interested read my developer blog at https://blotunga.wordpress.com/

Ratings and reviews

Great strategy game. I can play for hours on end and never get bored. I only have one issue with game. I signed a non aggression treaty with the Rotharians and now they're on my territory trying to terraform lands and colonize planets but I can't go onto they're lands at all which seems very unfair..we should both be able to traverse onto each other's lands and with this pact or neither should be able to...pls fix

Re-reviewing after 5 years. I still play it once in a while which says a lot. It's a solid turn-based game. It's not perfect and I don't think there's been an update in a couple of years, but if you want a decent MOO2-ish game that doesn't throw an ad or pay wall every 5 mins, then get it. Tutorials and explanations in general could be better. Be sure to get and grow your intel units as soon as possible or you will get annihilated...you're welcome.

The fact that this game is completely free without even any micro transactions or annoying ads is amazing! It has a bit of a learning curve due to the in depth game play and weak tutorials but I picked it up faster than expected. The Intel system is tricky and can easily cost you the game if you don't play right, but it certainly is not "broken" as some reviews suggest. After I lost a few games I figured it out. Just get around 10 Intel buildings per system as early as possible. I'm addicted!

What's new

For changes: https://bitbucket.org/sarkanyi/bote-libgdx/raw/master/CHANGES
Tutorial! Tap on the yellow question marks.
Tooltips! Hold finger on the research item and after the tooltip is shown, drag it away without lifting it to read what buildings/ships will be unlocked by the next level.
Ships, research, races, sectors, suns, planets, troops all have tooltips now.
Google Drive integration may have bugs, check files on your drive before deleting them from your device.