I've always loved games.  I used to write 'choose your own adventure' style text games in BASIC back on the original IBM PC when I was a kid.  Now I almost like writing games as much as playing them. 

There's a certain challenge to creating something interactive.  With Galactic Conquest, I've done most of the development while the game is live.  

Ilsian Games is just me, Justin Beghtol (Duranaki). 

Ilsian Games has currently developed two products: Galactic Conquest and Flash Attack. 

Galactic Empire is a multi-player online game with a mud-like interface.  It's a space conquest game, featuring real-time combat and turn based empire building and has quite a lot of features.  It was inspired by the MajorBBS game Galactic Emipire, but is largely original.  Galactic Conquest currently has its own website here.

I've also been working on a GUI client for Galactic Conquest, but its not public anytime soon (if ever).

There is also a Yahoo! Group for Galactic Conquest.

Flash Attack Over IP (FAOIP!) is a remake of a very old commodore 2-player tank combat game, which later made an appearance on MajorBBS through the work of Tim Stryker (RIP) and was quite honestly an awesome game.  This one is written in Java and should run nicely under win32 and linux. 

One note: It's not ready yet.  I still have some work to get it ready for alpha release.  But its close.  There is more details about it here.

I first wrote the game engine for this in c++ as a Symbian OS DLL to run on Nokia's Series 60 phones.  I then wrote a 'practice only' version of the app for Series 60 which was coming along nicely.  Then I decided Java was a better market place, so ported the engine to MIDP Java.  Then I figure I've got this Java Game Engine I've been using for the Galactic Conquest Client, why not just put them together?   So now its a straight-up J2SE application.

I've tried to maintain the same spirit as the original.

About Ilsian Games

Ilsian Games is just a name I've decided to use to parent the two games I've written.  Ilsian is a name I made up.  It was first used to describe a secret society of renegade do-gooders in an RPG world I made up.  They were the Ilsian Coven and made their home in a demi-plane known as the Ilsian Glade.  Somewhat inspired by Twin Peaks "White Lodge".   When I wrote Galactic Conquest, the EMPIRE became the ILSIAN EMPIRE.  So now, we have Ilsian Games.