The First Seamless Open-World RTS

The Imperial Realm::Miranda is a massively multiplayer real-time strategy game in the tradition of Command and Conquer™ Fight either by yourself, or with your friends, in an all-out war to dominate Miranda, the devastated former capital planet of The Imperial Realm.

• Build a Base - Create the base of your dreams using standard buildings, or custom design your own.
• Create a Fighting Force - Build your forces, design your perfect killing machines and optimize your strategy.
• Battle the Fallen - After forty generations, the mysterious Fallen have returned to Miranda.
• Challenge other Players - Skirmish outside the Blue Zone, or enter Nemesis Mode to fight team PvP battles.
• Explore - Miranda's massive 20x20KM (300x300KM planned) seamless open world is full of wonders to discover.
• Complete Missions - The open-world offers special challenges to commanders who can find them.
• Harvest Resources - Send out harvesters to collect valuable resources from the world.
• Collect Achievements - Will you be the first to get Work Hard, Play Hard?
• Win Loot - Loot Crates won through battle contain exotic units, rare components as well as money.
• Buy and Sell - Visit Vendors throughout the world to buy new toys and sell what you don't need.
• Expand your Abilities - Unlock additional abilities, technologies and bonuses as your commander gains experience.
• Take over the World - Capture territories for your faction with a friend (or a thousand) all in the same world simultaneously with Miranda's groundbreaking single-shard design.

Do you think this sounds cool? Play today by purchasing an Early Access Package.

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Bold New World

Bold New World is the upcoming third update to The Imperial Realm::Miranda and is a major upgrade of the rendering engine and art. Announced features include:

• New Environment Art - Nearly all of the terrain textures are being recreated in higher resolution with reduced tiling.
• Procedural Rock Formations - Rock formations dot the landscape, creating paths and bottlenecks for fighting forces.
• Detail Props - Rocks, sticks and other tiny details add life to Miranda.
• Ambient Occlusion - AO provides more realistic lighting.
• Texture Filtering - New options for Bilinear, Trilinear and 16X Anisotropic texture filtering.
• DXT Compression - The game's textures are approximately 75% smaller with better performance.

Additional features are planned, the release date for Bold New World is net yet announced.

Return of The Fallen

Emperor Cauto I was hailed as a saviour when he single-handedly ended years of pitched warfare with The Fallen. Now, forty generations later, the price of his treachery is finally coming due.

Return of The Fallen is the second major update to The Imperial Realm::Miranda. New features include:

• The Fallen - The Fallen AI faction provides PvE challenges throughout Miranda's huge map.
• The Blue Zone - Players can engage in PvE battles, safe from attacks by other players in the Emperor's Blue Zone.
• Monoliths - With the return of The Fallen, Miranda's mysterious Monoliths have suddenly come to life, providing fast travel across Miranda for players who can discover their secret.
• Discoverables - Discover vendors, monoliths and points of interest throughout Miranda's huge world.

Nemesis

Challenge your personal Nemesis in one-on-one or team open-world PvP battles for bragging rights and sweet, sweet loot.

Nemesis is the first major update to The Imperial Realm::Miranda. New features include:

• The Nemesis System
  • Easy Matchmaking - With a single click, the Nemesis System pits teams of players against one another in PvP battles.
  • Multiple Modes - Annihilation, the first Nemesis mode, tasks players with destroying the other team's buildings and rewards them with loot and accolades. Future Nemesis modes include Assassination, Slaughter, Claustrophobia and Greed.
  • Gain Loot & Experience - Victors gain loot and bonus XP, the defeated gain huge bonuses for when they become victorious.
• Mission List - Manage and track your current mission objectives.
• Foundation Extensions - Miranda's rough terrain sometimes makes finding a spot for buildings difficult. Foundation Extensions make it possible to place buildings nearly anywhere.
• Faster, Prettier Map - The Map plays an important part in planning battles. Nemesis added icons for important map features.
• HUD Improvements - The HUD was upgraded and many features were made hide-able, allowing for a clearer view of the battlefield.

Planned Features

• Additional Units - Miranda already has a number of buildings and tanks to play with, but there are many more planned including Spies, Engineers, Attack Drones, planes and more.
• Full-size Map, Additional Biomes & Points of Interest - Miranda's world is meant to be large and full of interesting things to discover. The current map is 20x20KM, but the target is 300x300KM.
• Walls - No base is complete unless it is surrounded by tall sturdy walls.
• Crates - Do you remember crates blowing up your tanks? Or making them invulnerable? Crates will have a number of interesting effects, but players will have to find and open them to discover which one.
• Chat and Friend Management - Miranda has global chat, but it needs a more powerful system to help players and their friends group and chat.
• Wildly Ambitious: Making The Imperial Realm::Miranda - A behind the scenes documentary on the making of The Imperial Realm::Miranda.
• Commentary Track - The commentary track provides behind the scenes information about the development of the game during gameplay.

Additional features will depend on feedback from players.

Early Access Game

This game is not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should sign up for the Mailing List so we can let you know what the game becomes.

Risks & Challenges

With The Imperial Realm::Miranda, we are creating a new kind of video game. Video game development is difficult under the best of circumstances, but creating something new means that the problems are not always easy to predict.

The good news though, is that Miranda has been under development for eight years on a shoestring budget, with just a single developer working as efficiently as possible to create the software, art, audio and bugs. During that time, hundreds of deliverables have been created from nothing in order to build the game you see today.

Even after all that work, there are some key features that are scheduled to be completed during Early Access. Once those core features are complete, the Alpha and Beta testing phases will allow us to polish the game and catch any remaining bugs.

Miranda is playable now for up to 50 simultaneous players and is designed to scale to many more, but there remain a number of difficult technical challenges to overcome in order to achieve the goal of a single shared world for everyone.

Before starting work on Miranda, Rob worked on 36 other games for PC, Sony PSP and Nintendo Wii, and ran an independent software development business for 16 years.

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