Alan Emrich is best known as a writer about and designer of video games, who coined the term "4X", contributed to the design of Master of Orion and Master of Orion 3, and wrote strategy guides for video games.
The names of races, planets, and several leaders are borrowed from the computer game Master of Orion, although everything else in the trilogy is original, even the physical descriptions of several races.
#Planetology: reductions in the cost of pollution control; colonization of hostile planets; terraforming, which increases the maximum population of a planet; the ability to increase populations more efficiently; biological weapons and defenses against such weapons.
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The game setting has been the influence of Russian writer Sergey Lukyanenko's trilogy, the Line of Delirium.
The game is credited with influence on early computer 4X games such as Reach for the Stars and Master of Orion.
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In April 2013, Wastelands Interactive launched a successful Kickstarter bid to fund the game Worlds of Magic and designer George Edward Purdy who worked on Master of Orion and Master of Magic joined the team.