Power the Future

Power the Future is a turn based strategy game that allows a player to take control of Germany the USA China India Australia Japan or the UK and guide them from2025 until2038 You will work to satisfy each nation s power needs and growth in an attempt to meet their goals You will develop new technology and deploy it You will need to employ strategy and spend your money and influence wisely to rapidly grow your power grid and satisfy hubs of demand spread throughout your and neighboring countries
You will need to set up solar wind offshore wind ammonia e-fuel and hydrogen in your country and at sites in other countries then provide pipelines and power lines to get that energy back to your country Then within your country you need to expand the infrastructure to reach as many cities and industries as possible Create supply via power facilities and connect pipelines and power lines to activate demand Your economy will get a boost from the connected power and the further you are able to reach the more additional revenue and influence you will have to work with
This game is for all ages The game is guided enough that you don t need to plan multiple turns in advance Watch the trailer and watch the walk through and you will be able to get started Don t worry about the goals your first time playing some goals like e-Fuel are a distraction early in the game later with technology they will become profitable
There are plenty of optimizations available to an experienced player and you ll be able to see how you compare in the leader board once you ve learned all the tricks
Key features of the game
Playable Countries more planned USA Germany China India Australia Japan or the UK
Each Country Scenario has unique challenges goals and resources available
The two currencies of the game are Money coins and Influence gems
Money is in millions USD and most things you buy are20 of what they would normally cost That is because the other80 is borrowed from the bank and investors and is paid back each turn in the cost of the energy you produce
Influence is the abstract cost in Bureaucracy Planning Lobbying Permitting and Timing
There is over100 sites to explore and develop most are exclusive to one of the7 countries
The UK and Japan scenarios are focused on transitioning the country with renewable power into the future
China and India are both growth heavy you will need to add as much energy as possible
Germany and the USA have a mix of growth and transition
Australia is an export scenario where your goal is mostly to satisfy the demands of your neighbors
The game was build with the Unity Engine and there are no limits to how much we can enhance and expand the game We intend to continue to expand the content and enhance the experience indefinitely into the future
The game is in English and we will add more languages You should be able to play the game without knowing English but you do have to pay attention to the numbers
This game is modeled to be realistic for the purpose of role play and so that you can experience the real world challenges and limitations of the emerging technologies In the interest of fun everything is easier and a little more profitable and less financially risky then it would be in real life
There are14 very significant technologies all are real and currently in early commercialization or a few years out Right now all technologies are available to all countries but in the future we probably will swap some out per country to better differentiate the scenario specific experience
Policies are available unique to each scenario they allow some immediate or long term benefit at the cost of money or influence
Tasks are passive goals you can try and satisfy if they match your strategy They will give you some benefit if successful in the time range allotted for them
Carbon offset and GDP growth are part of your score but you need to make it to the Victory screen to see them We intend to incorporate more of the carbon economy in the future
The game uses Terawatt Hours TWH as the unit of energy You could while playing provide up to30 of the energy a country uses Germany for example consumes over3000 TWH per year considering power gas and fuel
In the game there is Base power and Intermittent power Int This is a basic challenge in the game solar and wind is Int power it s only available part of the day and your country s grid can only handle and use so much of it You can improve your grid or convert it to Base with batteries
You can learn about the following in the game or read now for a preview of some of the technology and energy you will be working with You don t need to know anything about these at any depth to play but they are different energy types and serve different purposes with different production and consumption methods
Besides solar wind and offshore wind there are some near and distant future technologies in the game
Deep Geothermal is being developed right now in demonstration it allows geothermal power in more places and at larger size then in the past
Natural Hydrogen has been discovered and will be commercialized soon with horizontal drilling like for natural gas This is significant for this game because it is the cheapest form of hydrogen available and it s in large quantity
Orange Hydrogen is also natural hydrogen but its made by putting CO2 in water in contact with Iron rich rocks The CO2 gets locked and H2 is released so it is profitable via carbon credits and the captured Hydrogen
Space Based Solar is a bit of science fiction but it is technically possible and being worked on Spaced based solar beamed back to Earth would provide constant power but it won t be cheap
Hydrogen and e-Fuel Panels are solar panels that can create fuel from sunlight there are prototypes today but they aren t efficient enough today to commercialize
Offshore Ammonia could be made on ships out in the ocean where the wind always blows consistently and strongly The reason it s offshore Ammonia instead of offshore Hydrogen is that Ammonia will be just as easy to make soon but it stores a lot more H2 at a smaller volume
Ammonia is NH3 it is175 hydrogen in the game it is basically the transportable form of hydrogen Hydrogen has to be moved via pipelines otherwise Ammonia is already widely used for fertilizer and there is existing transportation infrastructure it is easily compressed at room temperature as a liquid
e-Fuel is mostly methanol but can be any carbon hydrogen based fuel or chemical These can be very valuable but can all be made from fossil fuels so a challenge is producing them cheap enough to compete