Tarsus Empire V
A space strategy game — colonize planets, build fleets, and conquer the galaxy.
Early alpha build. This is just the very start of development — don't expect it to be playable yet.
Tarsus Empire V is a space strategy game you play in the browser. Build your empire across the stars: colonize planets, construct warships, and battle for control of the galaxy. Discover galaxies, manage resources, and command fighters, bombers, and destroyers in tactical space combat.
Features
- Choose one of four factions — Dracos Orthodoxy, Zenith Concord, Marazan Union, or Terran Collective — and a gameplay type (Emperor, Trader, Pirate, or Enforcer)
- Space strategy gameplay with planet colonization
- Warship classes from fighters and bombers to corvettes, destroyers, cruisers, and battlecruisers
- Trading, combat, and missions — complete them to earn powerful ship components (weapons, shields, cloaks, and more)
- Future: high-fidelity front end (e.g. Unreal Engine) planned
Tech and deployment
The game is built with web-based technologies: a browser front end talks to a REST API backend. The backend is written in Swift using the Vapor framework, with a MySQL database for persistence.
Deployment uses Docker containers. The server image is built on GitHub Actions, pushed to GitHub Container Registry, and the production VPS pulls the image and runs it with Docker Compose — no build step on the server. nginx fronts the app and handles SSL; the API and database run in containers.
Right now the project is at the proof-of-concept stage: I'm proving that all the technologies I want to use work together. I'm near the end of this stage and hope to move into an early alpha where others can play and give feedback so I can fine-tune the game mechanics. Once the gameplay feels solid, I plan to release a web version and then focus on building a higher-fidelity front end.
Video
The videos were produced using ComfyUI on a PC to generate images and video clips. Audio was generated on a Mac Studio, which also ran scripts to drive ComfyUI via its REST API. Once all audio, storyboard images, and video segments were ready, the Mac assembled them into a full sequence. The final cut was enhanced with Topaz Video AI and then uploaded to YouTube.