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GameMaker. GameMaker (originally Animo, Game Maker (until 2011) and GameMaker Studio) is a series of cross-platform game engines created by Mark Overmars in 1999 and developed by YoYo Games since 2007. The latest iteration of GameMaker was released in 2022. GameMaker accommodates the creation of cross-platform and multi-genre video games using ...
The historical video game belongs to a video game genre in which stories are based upon historical events, environments, or people. Some historical video games are simulators, which attempt an accurate portrayal of a historical event, civilization or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow.
Re-released by Decision Games in 2000; S&T #201, 2000 The English Civil War: Ariel Productions Ltd, Ironside Games, Philmar Fighting Sail: Sea Combat in the Age of Canvas and Shot 1775–1815: Simulations Publications, Inc. 1981: S&T #85, 1981 Frederick the Great: 1975: S&T #49, 1975; re-released by Avalon Hill in 1982: Friedrich: Histogame: 2004
Medium. Skills. Planning, Terrain control, Delay tactics. Battle of the Bulge is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill (AH) in 1965 that simulates the World War II battle of the same name. General Anthony McAuliffe (ret.), who had been commanding officer at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, was a consultant during the game's development.
Description. Origins of War War II is a game for 2–5 players, in which each player takes on the role of one of five world powers in the mid-1930s (USA, France, UK, Russia, Germany). Each attempts to promote the diplomatic objectives of their country while preventing the other players from achieving theirs.
Playing time. 135–270 minutes. Age range. 12+. History of the World (often abbreviated HotW) is a board game designed by Ragnar Brothers and originally published in 1991. It is played by up to six players across various epochs, each player playing a different empire every round to have the greatest score at the end of the game by conquering ...
Hand management, Strategic thought. US-distributors: Simmons Games, Rio Grande Games. Friedrich (after the German name of Frederick II of Prussia) is a strategy board game about the events of the Seven Years' War. It was created by Richard Sivél, published in 2004, and won the prize for the Best Historical Simulation by Games magazine in 2006.
Kingmaker is a board game for 2–7 players in which each player controls one or more royal families in 15th-century England. [1] Through war, diplomacy, and politics, the players attempt to gain control of one or more members of the two rival royal families, the House of Lancaster and the House of York, to place one of them on the throne of England while eliminating all other "pretenders."