History
Hello commanders and welcome aboard!
My name is George Olah and I am Universal War’s project leader and programmer.
You can find me in game, IRC, forums and blog under the nick Renex.
Between 2002- 2005, me and a few friends: Peter Vestberg (Ymer - Sweden), Tom Sjoeberg (Ancalagon - Sweden), Morten Lie (Scootern - Norway) have created a browser based game by the name of Universal War. It is the game you are located at now. Some players from the community helped us a lot. I would like to thank you to Mihai Dinculescu (FaithRaven), Radu Oprita (Duhu), Doctor, Jicannon, Silmearendil, SirFire.
However, we were at highschool then and we had to follow our paths in life. So when we finished school we gave up on this project. Universal War went offline and it remained only in our and player’s memories.
I didn’t think Universal War ment anything big for someone except us. For us it was giant: we learned how to program, how to lead an online community, we established relations all around the world.
However, it seems someone else thought of uwar too. One year ago, in a evening I received an sms from Peter asking me to come online. You can’t imagine the happiness that surrounded me. For over 1 year I had no news from anyone from Universal War and now something had happened. I came online as soon as I could and what Ymer told me was astonishing. A player, Maniac, searched for Universal War on google but found nothing except our addresses.
The game was offline so he tried to contact us. He told us he wants Universal War back and we told him we don’t have the time to run it again. So he asked if he could do it. I managed to create better administrative tools for him but the game didn’t seem to work. Perhaps God considered it was not the right time for it to come back.
In the last year I followed my courses at university and meanwhile I work at a web development company in Sibiu, Romania. A few weeks ago I tried Universal War on one of our servers and found out what problems it had. So I fixed them, then contacted Maniac and now you can play it online.
Universal War was created between 2002 - 2005 but we intend to continue the work on it. Web gaming experience changed a lot, but we will focus on bringing Universal War to a new level. Any ideas, suggestions, help are welcomed. Your word counts here and any of you can put a little bit into the game.
We hope you will have a great experience here at UniversalWar.org. We will make sure you do!