Malfador Machinations is a small game company based in Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont and 26th...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. They are best known for their Space Empires

Space Empires

The Space Empires series is a long-lasting series of 4X turn-based strategy games by Malfador Machinations that allows the player to assume the role of the leader of a space-faring civilization.-Gameplay summary:...

series.

Brief history

Malfador Machinations was created by Aaron Hall to publish Space Empires II, the sequel to his self-produced 4X game. On September 6, 2002 Malfador Machinations released a hack-n-slash RPG

Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

 entitled Dungeon Odyssey but this was not as successful as the Space Empires games.

On April 5th 2006, Malfador Machinations was acquired by Strategy First

Strategy First

Strategy First is a software company based in Montreal, Canada. Founded in 1988, the company has published numerous well-known games, such as the Disciples series, Jagged Alliance series, Space Empires series, and Galactic Civilizations....

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Games

• Space Empires II (1995)
• Space Empires III
  Space Empires III
  __FORCETOC__Space Empires III is a turn-based 4X space strategy game published by Malfador Machinations in 1997, and is the third game in its Space Empires series.Despite its age the developers still offer it for sale online....
  
  (1997)
• Space Empires IV
  Space Empires IV
  Space Empires IV is a turn-based 4Xstrategy computer game developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Strategy First as part of the Space Empires series in which players control an alien race in an attempt at galactic conquest.- Gameplay :...
  
  (2000)
• Dungeon Odyssey (2002)
• Space Empires: Starfury
  Space Empires: Starfury
  Space Empires: Starfury is an action video game developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Shrapnel Games on October 2, 2003.-Gameplay:...
  
  (2003)
• Space Empires V
  Space Empires V
  Space Empires V is a 4X turn based strategy game that was released in 2006. It was developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Strategy First. The game retains many races and technologies from its predecessor, Space Empires IV .-Gameplay:While Space Empires V retains much of its...
  
  (2006)
• Space Empires: Battle For Supremacy (2010)
• World Supremacy (2010)