Future Empires Development Launch

After nearly two years opportunity and preparation have finally intersected for my project to launch.  I have started development of an iOS game called Future Empires.  Inspirations for this game came from many sources but at its heart it will belong to the family of 4X games.  This initial phase of development is focused on core functionality of what will be a multi-tiered multi-player game.  I’m not sure how much of the development work I’ll be recording here since I’ve never kept a development journal like this before but my goal is to at least track my major milestones on the path to an Alpha Release currently targeted for 1/1/2012 (4 weeks) .