BBS door game created by
Mehul Patel in the same vein as
Barren Realms Elite but in a medieval setting with many, many more options and much more complex gameplay.
Falcon's Eye, or
FE as it is better known, was a game of kingdoms with the same textual
interface that made
BRE so famous. Although it borrowed BRE's main concepts of land use and resource management, it also added more complexity in the form of
races to choose from the start, each having different
military units,
buildings, and
spells available to them.
The game is turn based with a modifiable default of 12 turns a day, with each day representing a year and each turn representing a month. During each turn there are a series of things that always happen: the masses have to be fed, their 'happiness' is calculated, military is recruited, land is bought, resources are traded, buildings are constructed, militaries are sent out to conquer, and diplomacy is done - among other things.
Things got interesting in an
InterBBS game, where the kingdoms of a particular
BBS work together on a 'planet' (a single
InterBBS League) with other 'continents' (individual
BBSes) full of their own kingdoms. Due to the nature of the game's resource management, going to war was a necessity to thrive, if not survive, and InterBBS wars become very heated.
Eventually, updates to
FE ceased and
Mehul left the
BBS scene in favor of the
'net. As
FE was his final project, it was never really perfected and thus still suffers from balance problems and the occasional bug.
John Dailey Software owns the rights to the game, and it can be downloaded from and registered through them.
Also, the game
Utopia on
Swirve.com is based on the original
Falcon's Eye concepts. If you played
FE,
Utopia will be a trip down memory lane...