Dynasties through the Aeons is an effort to provide a Grand Strategy experience in a Massive Multiplayer environment. It's a game that i’ve been building for almost two years now. I started developing my game as a simple MMO City Building in the likes of Game of War, Tribalwars, Ikariam, Travian etc. I was a huge fan of the browser-based MMO games from the early 00s and i always wanted to build something similar that resembles these games but also tackles their weaknesses. I think this genre has come into a halt the past decade, even though it has so much potential. So, I built my game with 3 pillars in mind.

• The map should play a far more important role in production, construction and overall strategy.

My game takes place on the real-world map (Represented by hexagons). Depending on your location, you produce resources at a different rate or don’t produce at all. Each player begins with a set of provinces. The terrain of each province matters. Mountains are source of minerals, forests provide wood and farmlands can be used for a variety of activities like producing Grain or Fruits.

• Player activity should not be the deciding factor in terms of winning

I’ve been part of multiple MMO communities in the past and the thing that came up in conversations far too many times was player activity and how important that was to win a world. To tackle player activity as a winning condition, i gave players a specific number of actions that they can perform on a daily basis. That doesn’t eliminate the activity advantage entirely, but it mitigates it. My goal was to give the chance to people with limited free-time to enjoy a game of this genre. So i hope that the game is complex enough that activity should be the last deciding factor for victory. Furthermore, players will be given the ability to sign-up in an upcoming world and found their house from the very beginning of each world.

• Pay to win should not exist in order to achieve fairness across the entire board

Like i said, i was a huge fan of MMO browser games of the past decade. I’ve been playing them since when i was a kid back in 2007 before the concept of microtransactions. So you can imagine my disappointment when these games started introducing microtransactions and pay to win features. That’s why i’ve decided to provide a game that follows a subscription-based model. I want to keep the costs as low as possible and make the game accessible to as many people as possible.

How the System works?

The in-game currency is called Points. The game has persistent Worlds. You can join any world that’s available. Upon joining, you get 3 Points for this world. One (1) Point is consumed for every day your House exists in a world. That means, that you have 3 days to play for free on every world you join. If you're out of points, the rate that you gain actions almost stalls.

Upon release, you'll be able to purchase 10 points at the price of 0.99$ or 30 points at the price of 1.99$. Each world is set to last ~33 days.

After purchasing the points, you can load them in each world. The minimum points you can load in one world is 3. Other options could be 7, 14 & 30.

I understand that this might be a dealbreaker for many, but there’s massive infrastructure behind this game in order to support thousands of players per world as well as multiple worlds and it’s the most honest way to keep the game running without ruining the experience with pay to win features. It’s also the reason why there’s still a whole list of features to be developed since i spent a big chunk of time focusing on the technical aspects of it.

To summarize, Dynasties through the Aeons is a Massive Multiplayer Grand Strategy game featuring persistent worlds that will last 30-40 days. Players joining a world will found their house in a set of provinces (hexagons), manage these provinces, the population and their needs, the buildings and try to expand by conquering adjacent provinces. In the end of each world, rewards are given based on the game's leaderboards. Rewards are in the form of Game Points (As described above)

My plan is to release the game within 2023 and i might share a few dev diaries within the year.