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OGame is a game of intergalactic conquest.

You start out with just one undeveloped world and turn that into a mighty empire able to defend your hard earned colonies.

Create an economic and military infrastructure to support your quest for the next greatest technological achievements.

Wage war against other empires as you struggle with other players to gain the materials.

Negotiate with other emperors and create an alliance or trade for much needed resources.

Build an armada to enforce your will throughout the universe.

Hoard your resources behind an impregnable wall of planetary defenses.

Whatever you wish to do, OGame can let you do it.

Will you terrorize the area around you? Or will you strike fear into the hearts of those who attack the helpless?

OGame Description

OGame is a popular free online strategy game that is text-based. This game was only launched in 2006, but it already has millions of players worldwide. Players start out with a single undeveloped world and attempt to build a huge empire in the universe. Along the way to their empire, players can form alliances with other players, research technologies to improve space ships, and perform various missions. Alliances are similar to guilds and serve many functions such offering members protection, enabling free trade among members, and consolidating forces for attacks. Although the game is text-based, OGame still looks good and has more action than most other games in the genre. 

Key Features

• Free-to-play.
• Real-time strategy.
• Very action oriented.
• Various types of missions that can be formed by your spaceship such as espionage, attacking other ships, transporting resources, and harvesting.
• Players can have armadas of spaceships.
• Alliances allow players to band together for protection and free trade.
• Can research technology to improve units and defenses. 
• Size of forces or alliances do matter.
• Three resources for players to hoard: crystal, deuterium, and metal.
• Some resources are left after a spaceship is destroyed.
• Has a ranking system that displays the top players.    

Pricing Model

OGame is a free-to-play online strategy game, but you can pay for added features. It should also be noted that advertisements are required for the free version. 

The Company that produces OGame

Gameforge :  http://www.gameforge.de

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Gameforge GmbH is, quite literally, a gamesmith. This internationally active company develops and publishes Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games.

In addition to its own blockbusters like OGame and Vendetta, the company licenses, internationalizes and markets products for worldwide publication.
These games are adapted to the linguistic and cultural requirements of the respective market, and then cross-media and innovative viral campaigns are used to advertise and promote them to their target audiences.

A fundamental component in the creation and sustainability of viral marketing campaigns are the huge communities which form around the games. Community managers with many years of experience look after each game and ensure that every user around the globe receives a high level of support in his or her own language. Gameforge’s games are leading their respective genres in terms of technology and quality. The developers ensure that the games always reflect the technological state of the art and are constantly developing new features to ensure sustainable gameplay.

With twelve games in up to 16 languages, as well as with many more than four million active players around the world, Gameforge is the uncontested market leader in its sector.

Another string to the company’s bow is the licensing of Asian client-based MMO games for the European market. These products are localized by the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Gameforge 4D GmbH, into various different languages and launched on the appropriate markets.

The company’s subsidiary, palado, works with Gameforge to create and distribute innovative, target-group-appropriate advertising.

As of mid-2006, Gameforge, which is headquartered in Karlsruhe, had 40 permanent employees.

Gameforge :  http://www.gameforge.de

first Message you get when you sign up

"In the beginning build a metal mine.
To do that click on the 'Buildings' link at the left, pick the metal mine and click on 'Build'.
Now you have some time to get know the game.
As mines don't produces anything without energy you should also build a solar plant, go back to Buildings and choose the solar plant and build it up.
To see all the ships, defensive structures, buildings and researches that you are able to develop you can also have a look at the technology tree under 'Technology' in the menu at the left.
Don't forget to read the Rules! "