User:Thepit44/Afterwind

Afterwind ...

Afterwind is an online turn-based strategy game similar to Risk and Diplomacy designed for people ages 12+. The goal of the game is to take conquer the world by yourself, with a team or with multiple allies. The game includes over 200 countries and 500 cities to play with. Users can use premade maps to play on or can make their own custom maps known as "scenarios". Players are also able to use "strategies" of which add boosts to certain stats in-game.

Plays have the ability to communicate through certain chats in-game. They can also chat through private messaging on the website and through the forums.

Afterwind is partnered with Kongregate.

Developement
Afterwind was started by two brothers named Ivan and Amok who currently reside in England and Finland. The game was realeased in Autumn 2010. The game requires Microsoft Silverlight to play. Originally, the game was supposed to use Flash but the administrators thought that Silverlight was much simpler.

Gameplay
Afterwind allows users to cutomize their own maps, play one versus one, make coalition wars and more.

Customization
Players have the ability to upload their very own profile picture and general icon using jpeg images. They also have the ability to create their own forum signature that would be seen at the bottom of every post they make on the Afterwind forums.

Coalitions
Players have the ability to join a coalition or be requested to join one. The players are given ranks in the grouo such as "Officer" or "Leader". These groups can then have "Coalition Wars" where two groups fight each other on a map.

In Game
Players are able to play on various maps such as "Europe" or "Asia" or "Whole World" to name a few. Larger countries such as China, Canada or Russia are broken up into different areas for balancing reasons.

The players are also able to put special settings on their game such as "100+ Cities" which adds more than 100 cities to the game or "No Alliances" which takes away the ability for a player to ally somebody. Players also have the ability to set maximum turns, turn duration, startign funds, maximum joining week and maximum players. Premium members can do much more.

Quick Game

Quick games are games where the turn durations are set between 1-12 minutes. These are the most common games and a new one is started every 5-10 minutes roughly.

Casual Game

Casual games are games where the turn durations are set between 12-24 hours. In these games, players are able to exit the game and come back another time to make movements.

Upgrades
Upgrades are things you can buy that make your units stronger or better in some way.

Strategies

Strategies are types of upgrades that give you boosts in certain statistics of units while also making other statistics worse. An example of a strategy is "Lucky Bastard" which gives you "+5 to ARB, +2 to view range, +10 cost to all units".

Scenarios
Scenarios are maps that are customly created by players to give certain teams or alias different countries to form one country. An example would be a "WWII Scenario" where you would give Germany countries such as Poland, Austria and other places.

Premium
Premium are upgrades you can buy using real money.