Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoAlan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has diedwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1165arrow-down1external-linkAlan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has diedwww.pcgamer.comAgent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down10·1 day agoNamed it 4X; but the X stands for words that begin with E. Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate. Why aren’t they 4E games? 🤦♂️
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·1 day agoBecause the Ecks is what you hear in all of them.
Named it 4X; but the X stands for words that begin with E.
Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate.
Why aren’t they 4E games? 🤦♂️
Because the Ecks is what you hear in all of them.
4Ex
Scott Pilgrim’s Civilization
Thats Stellaris