When playing a game like Stars! or Asteria it's easy to feel like fleet navigation rules are simple. Submit your orders where ships should go, click a button to generate the next turn, and ships end up closer to where they want to go. Simple.
Not really. Consider these three …
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There's a game from 1995 called Stars! that I grew up with and still love. It's a sci-fi turn-based strategy game where you "explore, expand, exploit, exterminate" a universe filled with "stars" (planets) and other empires.
From Wikipedia:
While it received generally positive …
Hidden Figures is a 2016 movie about the 1960s space race, the early days of computation, and segregation. It's an uplifting movie - described by some as "cheesy". However the cheese serves to distinguish it from other films in its genre which are typically very dark and gritty. It's an underdog …
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