Maelstrom Game

A downloadable game for Windows

Maelstrom is a managerial space strategy and simulation game. After the last great war, a small and previously unnoticed planet, Zokbar J, seized the opportunity and pounced on the broken pieces, creating the 'Syndicate,' which now vies for domination of the galaxy. You defected, and now control Harmony, a large Fitzholium miner, and can manage. Maelstrom is rated 'Mature Players' only. There is no explicit sex or nudity illustrated in the game, however, it is heavily implied, vividly described, and alluded to. Features - A 150,000 Word Game with Numerous Endings Four Love Interests; Up to 35 Gorgeous CGs! 20 Different Music Tracks. Feb 20, 2007 Complete with the ability to terraform landscapes and transform units, Maelstrom provides gamers with the power to harness the forces of nature in the most frantic, destructive, action-packed RTS game yet. A stunning mix of action-packed RTS missions set in a totally destructible and immaculately realised environment. Maelstrom is a nature power resource available to Elemental and Enhancement shamans, generated and spent by certain spells. The amount of Maelstrom currently available to the caster is denoted with a special blue mana bar below their mana bar. By default, shamans start with an empty Maelstrom bar which is then filled as they use certain abilities. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews 32 in Group Chat View Stats. Fast-paced naval battles in a grim fantasy world.

Welcome me Hearties to Gentlemen of Fortune: Maelstrom

Maelstrom

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This download offers three sets of executables: DirectX9 - 64 bit, DirectX9 - 32 bit, DirectX 8 - 32 bit. By themselves, they provide nothing to play, but each of the versions can play the following, freely available mods and derivatives:

Buccaneers of the Caribe (based on Pirates of the Caribbean)
New Horizons (from Pirates Ahoy! community)
Caribe Stories (based on Caribbean Tales)
Caribe Stories Historical Immersion (based on Caribbean Tales)
Lost Ships City (based on City of Abandoned Ships)
Gentlemen of Fortune 1.2
Gentlemen of Fortune 2.0
Gentlemen of Fortune 2.5
Historical ERAS II

Anyone who has played the above games, knows the frustration with the originals; rife with game-breaking bugs and frequent crashes.

No more! We have overhauled the code, eliminating the vast memory leaks and crash-inducing bugs. In addition, we have improved the performance, and also upgraded from the original DirectX 8 (despite the claim on the COAS box, any process explorer showed the game was never actually running DirectX 9). Also now provide a 64 bit, for systems using that architecture (though even without, all the same fixes were applied to our DX8 and 32 bit versions, so older systems can still benefit).

Fantastic Four Mechanized Maelstrom Game

Some other improvements are the swapping out of Windows memory allocation routines, in favor of a famous, more efficient method that increases allocation speed, improves efficiency and reduces fragmentation. FMOD, for sound, is updated to the most current and the engine implementation of it completely rewritten for new features. Fixed fullscreen task-switching bug that crashed game, to actually allow fullscreen and task/window switching in/out of game without a problem. Deprecated DDRAW for video has been removed and updated with something newer. Save-file compression routine updated (still compatible for old saves, only in GOF, COAS and ERAS 2). Corrected multi-threading of sea calc routines. Changed to asynch system/trace logging. Now with built in options to control video adapter selection, VSynch, Triple Buffering, and Antialiasing. Various features were added to support further mod capabilities, notably seen in ERAS II, and things like improved ship AI within the engine itself. These are just a few of the long list of improvements/fixes developed over the last couple years that have been most graciously beta-tested by some forum members over at https://buccaneersreef.com.

Original Base Game: AGE OF PIRATES 2 – City of Abandoned Ships; Licensing sold and owned by other third party(s). Original Source Code (freeware) which ran in DirectX 8 was given away freely eight years ago and completely rebuilt and overhauled by the Buccaneer's Reef Team. This is completely new source code which is now capable of running all the older games based on POTC (Storm 2.0) and Caribbean Tales (Storm 2.5), plus the newer based on City of Abandoned Ships (Storm 2.8), but now in DirectX 9 and 64 bit, if desired, to which all rights are reserved by the Buccaneer's Reef Team and official legal licensing pending.



Minimum System Requirements:

  • CPU SPEED: 1.75 GHz
  • RAM: 1 GB
  • OS: Windows XP
  • FREE DISK SPACE: 180 MB
Updated 21 hours ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
AuthorChezJfrey
GenreAdventure, Fighting
TagsAction-Adventure, Action RPG, Exploration, First-Person, Pirates, Sandbox, Third Person
Asset licenseCreative Commons Attribution_NonCommercial v4.0 International
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
LinksHomepage

Purchase

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $12 USD. You will get access to the following files:

gentlemen-of-fortune-maelstrom-engine-win-final.zip250 MB

Development log

  • Maelstrom Update
    21 hours ago
  • Maelstrom Update
    11 days ago
  • Maelstrom Update
    35 days ago
  • Maelstrom Update
    50 days ago

Community

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A downloadable game for Windows

Welcome me Hearties to Gentlemen of Fortune: Maelstrom

This download offers three sets of executables: DirectX9 - 64 bit, DirectX9 - 32 bit, DirectX 8 - 32 bit. By themselves, they provide nothing to play, but each of the versions can play the following, freely available mods and derivatives:

Buccaneers of the Caribe (based on Pirates of the Caribbean)
New Horizons (from Pirates Ahoy! community)
Caribe Stories (based on Caribbean Tales)
Caribe Stories Historical Immersion (based on Caribbean Tales)
Lost Ships City (based on City of Abandoned Ships)
Gentlemen of Fortune 1.2
Gentlemen of Fortune 2.0
Gentlemen of Fortune 2.5
Historical ERAS II

Anyone who has played the above games, knows the frustration with the originals; rife with game-breaking bugs and frequent crashes.

No more! We have overhauled the code, eliminating the vast memory leaks and crash-inducing bugs. In addition, we have improved the performance, and also upgraded from the original DirectX 8 (despite the claim on the COAS box, any process explorer showed the game was never actually running DirectX 9). Also now provide a 64 bit, for systems using that architecture (though even without, all the same fixes were applied to our DX8 and 32 bit versions, so older systems can still benefit).

Some other improvements are the swapping out of Windows memory allocation routines, in favor of a famous, more efficient method that increases allocation speed, improves efficiency and reduces fragmentation. FMOD, for sound, is updated to the most current and the engine implementation of it completely rewritten for new features. Fixed fullscreen task-switching bug that crashed game, to actually allow fullscreen and task/window switching in/out of game without a problem. Deprecated DDRAW for video has been removed and updated with something newer. Save-file compression routine updated (still compatible for old saves, only in GOF, COAS and ERAS 2). Corrected multi-threading of sea calc routines. Changed to asynch system/trace logging. Now with built in options to control video adapter selection, VSynch, Triple Buffering, and Antialiasing. Various features were added to support further mod capabilities, notably seen in ERAS II, and things like improved ship AI within the engine itself. These are just a few of the long list of improvements/fixes developed over the last couple years that have been most graciously beta-tested by some forum members over at https://buccaneersreef.com.

Original Base Game: AGE OF PIRATES 2 – City of Abandoned Ships; Licensing sold and owned by other third party(s). Original Source Code (freeware) which ran in DirectX 8 was given away freely eight years ago and completely rebuilt and overhauled by the Buccaneer's Reef Team. This is completely new source code which is now capable of running all the older games based on POTC (Storm 2.0) and Caribbean Tales (Storm 2.5), plus the newer based on City of Abandoned Ships (Storm 2.8), but now in DirectX 9 and 64 bit, if desired, to which all rights are reserved by the Buccaneer's Reef Team and official legal licensing pending.



Minimum System Requirements:

  • CPU SPEED: 1.75 GHz
  • RAM: 1 GB
  • OS: Windows XP
  • FREE DISK SPACE: 180 MB
Updated 21 hours ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
AuthorChezJfrey
GenreAdventure, Fighting
TagsAction-Adventure, Action RPG, Exploration, First-Person, Pirates, Sandbox, Third Person
Asset licenseCreative Commons Attribution_NonCommercial v4.0 International
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
LinksHomepage

Purchase

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $12 USD. You will get access to the following files:

gentlemen-of-fortune-maelstrom-engine-win-final.zip250 MB

Development log

Maelstrom
  • Maelstrom Update
    21 hours ago
  • Maelstrom Update
    11 days ago
  • Maelstrom Update
    35 days ago
  • Maelstrom Update
    50 days ago

Community

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