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Basics
Galactic Venture Online (GVO) is a multi-player game written in Visual Basic 6. It uses the DXG DirectX game engine for Direct X. It is a multi-character RPG(Role Playing Game) with RTS(Real Time Strategy) elements. Multi-character means all the players you make, enter and play in the world at the same time. It uses an isometric graphic display and pop-up windows for the interface. All your characters have skills which improve with use or by manual raising. The theme is future technology based but the engine is flexible enough to support just about any theme.

Basics

Galactic Venture Online (GVO) is a multi-player game written in Visual Basic 6. It uses the DXG DirectX game engine for Direct X. It is a multi-character RPG(Role Playing Game) with RTS(Real Time Strategy) elements. Multi-character means all the players you make, enter and play in the world at the same time. It uses an isometric graphic display and pop-up windows for the interface. All your characters have skills which improve with use or by manual raising. The theme is future technology based but the engine is flexible enough to support just about any theme.

What is the objective/story in Galactic Venture?
You just quit your job and have invested your life savings into making a new company. Your objective is to run your new company effectively enough in order to make a profit. You will be doing this by exploring and exploiting a newly discovered planet. You will hire some employees and from orbit in the mothership, you will direct them to work. You must harvest resources from the planet then sell them on the Space Market to earn credits. Your employees have a salary based on their skills that you must pay else they will quit.

What is the objective/story in Galactic Venture?

You just quit your job and have invested your life savings into making a new company. Your objective is to run your new company effectively enough in order to make a profit. You will be doing this by exploring and exploiting a newly discovered planet. You will hire some employees and from orbit in the mothership, you will direct them to work. You must harvest resources from the planet then sell them on the Space Market to earn credits. Your employees have a salary based on their skills that you must pay else they will quit.

How do you play Galactic Venture?
It plays very similar to a standard RTS game. Left click selects an object on the map. Right click on an object does an action. The action could be automatic like attacking an enemy or it could give you a choice of actions like "Goto" or "Pickup". It all depends on the selected object and what that object is holding or is armed with, etc. A specific example is you left click to select one of your employees. You then right click on a nearby tree. Since the employee is carrying a Laser Saw you get several choices like "Goto", "Attack" and "Harvest Wood". You would then select "Harvest wood" from the popup menu and then your employee would carry out the command.

How do you play Galactic Venture?

It plays very similar to a standard RTS game. Left click selects an object on the map. Right click on an object does an action. The action could be automatic like attacking an enemy or it could give you a choice of actions like "Goto" or "Pickup". It all depends on the selected object and what that object is holding or is armed with, etc. A specific example is you left click to select one of your employees. You then right click on a nearby tree. Since the employee is carrying a Laser Saw you get several choices like "Goto", "Attack" and "Harvest Wood". You would then select "Harvest wood" from the popup menu and then your employee would carry out the command.