Emancipation is an in development strategy game about building and managing stores, companies and public places on a persistent online world. You enter in this game as an entrepreneur of a new society. Among the building you can place and manage are: food shops, clothes shops, private schools, hardware shops, etc... In this game the people (bots with AI) depend on the businesses (players) that are created, and the businesses depend on each other. Example: You want to start a food shop so you need some materials; wood, bricks, etc... After buying those materials (more about buying below) imagine that in a certain zone you see that a food shop would be a good business, so you go and build a food shop there to provide the people from that zone. After that your shop is able to provide a certain amount of food, and you'll be able to earn money. But a food shop has also expenses; besides paying your employee, someone needs to provide you the items you'll sell so you need also a...
In this pictures I show the concept I'm following and the first in game image, I know it looks like not big deal, but I'm rendering the map using info received by the server after logging in! Which I think it's really cool!