Portal:Strategy games

Wikipedia portals: Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Natural sciences People Philosophy Religion Society Technology edit   The Strategy games Portal Shortcut: P:SGM A strategy game is a game in which the player's decision-making influences the outcome significantly. They are usually board games, computer or video games, card games, or another type of game. Several games include strategy extensively, while others to a lesser degree, complicating demarcation. It is sometimes more accurate to say that some games have strategic elements, rather than being a strategy game; however, this depends on the game. The deciding factor separating strategy game from other genres is that there is either no or relatively less chance involved. Usually, the only physical element is the interaction with the game pieces, although there are exceptions. Players have similar starting positions or sitiuations, but use strategy to gain advantages over others. Strategy, as well as tactics, is dissimilar to luck in that chance-based games rely more heavily on probability. The word "strategy" is used by the military, and refers to high-level planning. Strategy games often deal with small-scale situations. Tactical games, a type of strategy game, deal with military planning, though also on a smaller scale than the military. Show new selections edit   Selected article Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War is a real-time strategy game developed by both Stainless Steel Studios and Midway Games; it was released on June 12, 2006. The game incorporates segments of third-person shooter gameplay, allowing the player to temporarily control a "hero". Rise and Fall is based in the first millennium BC, and features four playable civilizations: Persia, Greece, Egypt, and Rome. The game includes over eighty unique military units, as well as eight hero units—of which only one may be purchased during a game. In Rise and Fall, there are two campaigns: one following the conquests of Alexander the Great; the other, the liberation of Egypt by Cleopatra. During the game's development, Stainless Steel Studios closed. They abandoned all their games, including Rise and Fall, which was near finishing. Rick Goodman, founder of Stainless Steel and the lead designer of Rise and Fall, reported that Midway stopped funding the game when its release date was pushed back several months. Midway then decided to finish the game themselves. Reviews of the game were mixed; it won two awards, and was commercially successful in the United Kingdom. ...Archive/Nominations Read more... edit   Selected picture Credit: Kanō Eitoku In many East Asian cultures, Go was considered one of the most important skills a civilized person could learn. This screen showing Chinese men wearing Ming Dynasty robes was made by Kano Eitoku in the 16th century. ...Archive/Nominations Read more... edit   Selected biography Sid Meier (born Sidney K. Meier in 1954, in Detroit, USA) is a renowned American programmer and designer of some of the most commercially and critically successful computer strategy games of all time. Meier has won several accolades for both his contributions to the computer games industry and for the titles that have gained huge commercial successes. Meier is considered one of the legendary giants of the computer games industry. ...Archive/Nominations More... edit   Did you know... ...that Super Robot Wars: Original Generation, a strategy game featuring characters from major mecha anime, was originally never planned to be released in the United States due to licensing complications? ...that one of Atomic Games' most successful titles, Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far, topped their previous sale record by a factor of ten? edit   Featured content Featured: Chess • StarCraft • Empires: Dawn of the Modern World • Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War • Supreme Commander • Age of Mythology Former Featured: Go (game) • Xiangqi Good: Risk (game) • Age of Empires III • Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest • Age of Mythology edit   Topics Game types: Board games • Card games • Computer or video games Genres: Abstract strategy game • Bridge • Chess variant • City-building game • Economic simulation game • Fantasy Sports Games • God game • Real-time strategy • Real-time tactics • Strategy game • Tic-tac-toe (Noughts and Crosses) • Turn-based strategy • Turn-based tactics edit   Categories Real-time strategy video games Turn-based strategy video games Turn-based tactics video games Free, open source strategy games Chess Go (game) Strategy Abstract strategy games Chess variants Tic-tac-toe Strategy video games Real-time tactics video games Business simulation games Strategy video game stubs City-building games God games Contract bridge edit   Related portals Chess Video games edit   Things you can do Create: Close Combat: The Russian Front • Close Combat: Battle of the Bulge • Close Combat: Invasion Normandy Expand: HeroQuest (board game) • Boku (game) • Qubic • Death Stacks • Entropy (board game) • Fitchneal • Five Field Kono Copyedit: Crossings (game) • Gonnect • Quoridor • Company of Heroes • Dark Reign: The Future of War • Myth (computer game) Cleanup: Abalone (board game) • Battle Realms • Outlive • Stronghold (2001 game) • Fleet Command • Combat Mission (computer game series) • Diplomacy (game) Cite Sources: Colonization (computer game) • MacHack (chess) More... edit   Associated Wikimedia Strategy games on Wikibooks  Strategy games on Wikimedia Commons Strategy games on Wikinews  Strategy games on Wikiquote  Strategy games on Wikisource  Strategy games on Wikiversity  Strategy games on Wiktionary  Manuals and books Images and media News Quotations Texts Learning resources Definitions What are portals? · List of portals · Featured portals