Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAlan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has diedwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down13cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1167arrow-down1external-linkAlan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has diedwww.pcgamer.comAgent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down10·2 days agoNamed it 4X; but the X stands for words that begin with E. Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate. Why aren’t they 4E games? 🤦♂️
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·2 days agoBecause the Ecks is what you hear in all of them.
Named it 4X; but the X stands for words that begin with E.
Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate.
Why aren’t they 4E games? 🤦♂️
Because the Ecks is what you hear in all of them.
4Ex
Scott Pilgrim’s Civilization
Thats Stellaris