A lineage of visionary games—reforged through systemic depth, modular evolution, and player agency. 1. Civilization 2. SuperPower 3. Kerbal Space Program 4. Spore 5. Stellaris 6. Dwarf Fortress 7. RimWorld 8. Victoria 3 9. Anno 2205 10. SimEarth 11. Endless Legend 12. Surviving Mars
In most strategy games, you manage your empire with queues and build orders. In most simulations, agents act based on schedules or scripts. In Colonies: Genesis of E.D.E.N., you do something different: You write contracts. Every action—whether it’s launching a satellite, delivering food, researching a cure, or sending a drone strike—is expressed through the Contract…
Emergence Over Engineering: The Systems Thinking Behind Colonies If you’ve ever launched a rocket in Kerbal Space Program, you’ve felt it—the thrill of orbital insertion, the silence of space, the raw calculation of delta-v. So when people see Colonies: Genesis of E.D.E.N., they sometimes say: “Oh cool, this is like KSP but with AI factions…
How We’re Simulating a Whole Planet—Down to the Wind, the Fire, and the Forgotten Campfires “Wait, isn’t this just Civilization… but way bigger?” We get that question a lot. And on the surface, it makes sense: there are tiles, facilities, agents, factions, even diplomacy. But under the hood, Colonies: Genesis of E.D.E.N. is operating on…
🔍 Realization: It’s Not Just How I Code — It’s How I Work Something clicked for me recently. I’ve been building Colonies: Genesis of E.D.E.N. for over a year now — a simulation of planetary evolution, orbital mechanics, and civilization emergence. What began as an ambitious systems game has grown into a modular, layered engine. And…
Date: May 27, 2025 Over the weekend and into today, I took a hard look at how celestial objects and orbital relationships are structured in the simulation. What began as a cleanup effort turned into a broader reconsideration of how CelestialBody, StarSystem, and related components like Barycenter, AsteroidField, and LagrangePoint are organized. The original design…
Date: May 26, 2025 Tags: #ui #framework #nextsteps Something major clicked into place this week — and it happened fast. What began as a push to build a clean Orbit Editor UI quickly evolved into the birth of a fully modular, declarative, and data-bound UI system for Colonies: Genesis of E.D.E.N.. It wasn’t just a…
I didn’t want to build just a game. I wanted to build a simulation—one where the rules of the universe matter more than the player. One where life, ideology, memory, and collapse don’t just play out because they were scripted, but because something deeper made them inevitable. Colonies: Genesis of E.D.E.N. is my attempt at…