u/MysteriousEar9986

Hey everyone! I’ve been building Eimyrja for about seven months.
It’s an iPhone space combat game inspired by the games I grew up with. Games like Homeworld, Freelancer, EVE, Fallout Tactics, with a modern splash of games like Pako and Overcooked!

The basic idea: what if you were the pilot inside those massive fleet battles instead of commanding them from above?
You fight alongside and against fleets with different tactics, upgrade from fighters to larger ships, salvage wrecks, build out your station, and uncover what happened after the jump-gate network collapsed.

Status: The game is playable now and I’m just wrapping up development! Looking for playtesters and feedback on everything - art, combat, narratives, etc!

I’d love feedback on the gameplay footage: Does the combat look fun? What would you change?

I’d love folks to get people’s firsthand thoughts before launch this month! Please feel free to learn more and sign up here:
https://www.eimyrja.gg/#enlist

Honestly just wanted to share this project I’ve been building since the start of the year with this community. If nothing else I’d love to find folks who want to play local multiplayer with me (I’m in SF) I originally called it Ember and then realized on mobile that the name was already heavily trademarked….

Anyhoo! I loved Homeworld 1, 2, and 3 and Cataclysm and Homeworld Mobile and played them religiously both as a kid and as an adult. One thing I always imagined growing up was - rather than being fleet command, or commanding a small battlegroup, what would Homeworld look like if I was the pilot instead?

And this game tries to answer that for me: what would happen if you were a pilot fighting against a fleet where the attacking force had multiple unique prongs and strengths and strategies? What would happen if you commanded a corvette? A frigate? A battlecruiser?

You’d probably have to end up finding really clever ways to keep going - or you’d just die a lot. That’s kinda what happens.

So fast forward 7 months as I explored that idea and I ended up somewhere interesting. Half Homeworld, a dash of Freelancer, a quarter Pako, a sprinkle of Eve and a little isometric Fallout I ended up with Eimyrja (cause again, Ember is trademarked).

The premise is simple : find a way to survive and complete the objectives without a fleet and when you’re outgunned.

Story wise nowhere near what Homeworld does. I tried but I couldn’t remake that cinematic touch. Essentially there are gates, they been offline for 1000 years and are online - what happens when humanity meets again when the ideological differences were so great? And see if you can find what happened from the NPCs you rescue and bring home.

That’s it! I hope you have the time to check it out! Would love folks to take a look. Of course all the assets are attributed and/or come from MSGDI. Ditto the music etc, the hero ships actually came from the late Andrew “Slaor” Roals who passed in 2012 (their family has approved me sharing them, honestly it was all so a part of the dream).

It’ll probably be free? Maybe not I honestly haven’t decided. Let me know what you think! Really enjoying local multiplayer!

https://www.eimyrja.gg