We just recently talked about the procedurally-generated
Dyson, and already here comes a new challenger to its refined and simplistic gameplay. Galcon, a real-time strategy game, has debuted on InstantAction. While it doesn't have the same minimalist style of Dyson, it has almost exactly the same gameplay. Control fleets as they take over planets, just don't lose your own planets. All you do is control where they go, the rest is up to your fleet. Unlike Dyson, however, ships do not have stats, so one ship in your fleet is equal to one ship in an enemy fleet. You can play the game on the
InstantAction site (plug-in required)
Actually, Galcon came ages before Dyson. In fact, it was made for a Ludum Dare competition a bit ago, and then the creator, Philhassey made a shareware version at http://www.imitationpickles.org/galcon/index.html.
Apparently, he's been making version for about 15 years, according to this blog entry: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/11/26/galcon/Posted at 5:58PM on Jul 21st 2008 by YuRiPa