Afrikan tähti and Twilight Imperium are what types of games?
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Afrikan tähti Afrikan tähti (] ; Finnish: Star of Africa), known in Swedish as Den försvunna diamanten (The Missing Diamond) or Afrikas stjärna meaning ""the star of Africa"", is a Finnish board game designed by Kari Mannerla originally in 1951. It has been one of the most popular board games in Scandinavia for decades.
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Twilight Imperium Twilight Imperium is a strategy board game produced by Fantasy Flight Games. It was designed by Christian T. Petersen and was first released in 1998. The game is in its third edition (2005), which has large changes over previous editions. This edition also has two expansions – "Shattered Empire" released in 2006, and "Shards of the Throne" released in 2011. It is known for the length of its gameplay (typically greater than 6 hours), and its in-depth strategy (including military, political, technological and trade).
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ELEX ELEX (Eclectic, Lavish, Exhilarating, Xenial) is an upcoming science fantasy themed action role-playing video game developed by Piranha Bytes and published by THQ Nordic for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows. The publisher has described the game as "edgy, dark, uncompromising, and complex", and it was featured as a cover story in the German magazine "GameStar". The protagonist joins the war for a powerful resource, "ELEX", which gives people great magic-like powers, and is a factor in deciding whether emotion and humaneness or cold synthetic logic will rule the world of Magalan. The game world will be a mix of futuristic and medieval locations, in which the player can use guns, swords and magic against enemies. The game will also feature a jet pack which can be used for the exploration of the game's environment.
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Stars! Stars! is a turn-based strategy, science fiction 4X game. "Stars!" was developed by Jeff Johnson and Jeff McBride ("the Jeffs") for their own use, and initially released as shareware in 1995. A retail version was later produced for, and published by Empire Interactive, although the shareware version continued.
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Zero-K Zero-K is a free multi-platform open source real-time strategy video game. Initially based on content from "Total Annihilation" on the open source "Spring Engine", it was forked and all proprietary content replaced, and evolved into a completely new game with unique features. Among the games powered by the "Spring" game engine, "Zero-K" makes extensive use of Lua scripting for interface and gameplay changes/enhancements, as well as unique RTS concepts such as a flat technology tree.
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Asheron's Call Asheron's Call (AC) was a fantasy MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) for Microsoft Windows-based PCs developed and published by Turbine Entertainment Software. Though it was developed by the Turbine team (with Microsoft's extensive assistance), it was published as a Microsoft title until 2004. "Asheron's Call" was set on the island continent of Dereth and several surrounding smaller islands and archipelagos on the fictional planet of Auberean. The game was played in a large, seamless 3D virtual world which could host thousands of players' characters (or avatars) at a time.
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Star Wars: Rebellion Star Wars Rebellion (known as Supremacy in the United Kingdom and Ireland) is a real-time strategy game released in 1998 by LucasArts and set in the fictional "Star Wars" expanded universe.
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Stellaris (video game) Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game developed and published by Paradox Interactive. "Stellaris"' s gameplay revolves around space exploration, managing an empire, and diplomacy and warfare with other spacefaring civilizations. It was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on May 9, 2016.
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Eclipse Phase Eclipse Phase is a science fiction horror role-playing game with transhumanist themes. Futurist Anders Sandberg noted its differences from GURPS "Transhuman Space" included its emphasis on posthuman (rather than transhuman) characters and cosmic horror. Originally published by Catalyst Game Labs, "Eclipse Phase" is now published by the game's creators, Posthuman Studios, and is released under a Creative Commons license. In 2010, it won the 36th Annual Origins award for Best Roleplaying Game. It also won three 2010 ENnie awards: Gold for Best Writing, Silver for Best Cover Art, and Silver for Product of the Year.
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Theatre Europe Theatre Europe is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by Personal Software Services. It was first released in the United Kingdom for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Atari 8-bit home computers in 1985. It was later released in France by ERE Informatique in 1986, and was released in the United States by Datasoft later that year. It was also ported to the Tatung Einstein home computer in 1989, exclusively in the United Kingdom. It is the fifth instalment of the "Strategic Wargames" series.
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Victory in the Pacific Victory in the Pacific (VITP) is a board wargame published by the Avalon Hill game company in 1977. Based on the game system first used in "War at Sea", also published by Avalon Hill, the game deals with the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II. A two-player game that can last up to five hours, each turn represents about six months, and units typically represent armies, air forces, and capital ships (aircraft carriers, battleships, battlecruisers, heavy cruisers, and light cruisers) of the United States Navy, Royal Navy, Dutch Navy, and Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Tide of Iron Tide of Iron is a World War II based wargame designed and published in 2007 by Fantasy Flight Games, also notable for publishing other large games containing a large number of counters and/or other components such as "" and "Arkham Horror".
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Imperial Game Engine The Imperial Gamel Engine is a game engine developed by "wow-bomb game studios" for creating 3D games of all genres. IE architecture also supports creating of 2D games. Targeting goals of IE was creating games with high-end cinematics, game scenes with mass of different gamelogic processes and large game servers, containing entire star systems with procedural planets (with cities and megalopolises) and star bodies.
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Europa Universalis II Europa Universalis II is a strategy computer game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Strategy First, based on world history spanning a timeline between 1419 through 1820. It was first released on December 11, 2001.
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Unforgiven War Unforgiven War is a free text/browser-based developed by Nvinium Games. The game is set in current times, where the world is engulfed in conflict and peace is hanging by a thread. Players enter the game as a new recruit into boot camp, where they can train their characters by doing missions and learning new and different military positions and jobs. By doing this a player can achieve power and wealth by fighting alone, joining a platoon and leading.
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Storm: Frontline Nation Storm: Frontline Nation is a turn-based strategy video game developed by the Swedish developer Colossai Studios, and published by SimBin Studios. The game takes place in modern-day Europe and North Africa. Gameplay elements involve diplomacy, large-scale strategy and small-scale tactical warfare.
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MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy is a 1990 space science fiction role-playing video game based on the "Traveller" series and was produced by Game Designers' Workshop licensee Paragon Software for Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS operating environments. The game is set within the "Official Traveller Universe" and features character creation and other aspects of game mechanics compatible with prior "Traveller" products. The player controls up to five ex-military adventurers whose objective is to save their civilization, the Imperium, from a conspiracy instigated by the Zhodani, a rival spacefaring race, and aided by the actions of a traitor named Konrad Kiefer. Gameplay features real-time planetary and space exploration, combat, trading, and interaction with various non-player characters in eight solar systems containing twenty-eight visitable planets.
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Final Fantasy Tactics Final Fantasy Tactics (ファイナルファンタジータクティクス , Fainaru Fantajī Takutikusu ) is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Squaresoft (later changed to Square and now Square Enix) for the Sony PlayStation video game console. It is the first game of the "Final Fantasy Tactics" series and was released in Japan in June 1997 and in the United States in January 1998. The game combines thematic elements of the "Final Fantasy" video game series with a game engine and battle system unlike those previously seen in the franchise. In contrast to other 32-bit era "Final Fantasy" titles, "Final Fantasy Tactics" uses a 3D, isometric, rotatable playing field, with bitmap sprite characters.
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Thunee Tani, after the Tamil word for water, is a popular trick-taking card game that originated in Durban, South Africa. It was invented by Indian indentured-labourers who arrived in South Africa to work in the sugarcane fields. It is believed that there are variations of the game found in India and Mauritius. The game is mostly confined to the former Indian townships, where it is very popular as a family game and in fund-raising tournaments, but to some extent it has spread to other South Africans and to Indians in other countries. The first thunee world championship was held in Pietermaritzburg in 2003.
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Strategic Simulations Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a video game developer and publisher with over 100 titles to its credit since its founding in 1979. The company was especially noted for its numerous wargames, its official computer game adaptations of "Dungeons & Dragons", and for the groundbreaking "Panzer General" series.
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Ant Nation Ant Nation is a real time strategy video game from Konami for WiiWare and Nintendo DS. The WiiWare version was released on July 13, 2009 in North America and the Nintendo DS version was released on September 8, 2009.
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Amber Trilogy The Amber Trilogy was an unfinished series of role-playing video games by Thalion Software. Unfortunately, due to the collapse of Thalion, only two of the games (Amberstar and Ambermoon) were ever released, and Ambermoon only in a German version (although, years later, an English version emerged which appeared to have been finished by Thalion immediately before the company closed down; the version of the release is 1.07, while the last German version apparently was 1.05).