The Future (Map Game series)

: The Future is a Map Game series originally created by Mapmaker023 (Mapmaker024) and continued by various people such as starring94 and KKAP. The series takes place on Earth, usually with the world map of 2015. Players have to choose a country and grow their nation into a world power. They can also forge alliances and attack other players. There is no ultimate "winning goal", and players can play as long as they want. Several sequels have been made since the original ended due to boycotting or players losing interest, most notably The Future Revived. The map game series have bought changes to Mapperdonian map games and populating the global free-for-all genre. Many view it as the most popular map game series ever made until A World of War.
==Mechanics==
Early versions of the game had INVENTED a turn-based game where players usually make their own turns during a time period of a few days before moving on to another player. During this time, most turns are usually in a paragraph, and it is somewhat hard to decipher territorial changes. NPCs during the original "The Future" were pretty nonexistent as they just sit and await their fates.
It wasn't until "The Future: Revived", the game that actually changed the way Map Games were also played. Like its predecessor, it also changed the map game world. It introduced a simultaneous turn-base where players can make their turns at the similar times and it would help speed the game along. Each turn is redefined into a year rather than players', which makes it easier to use dates. Under The Future: Revived, it also introduced several other things that weren't as noted.
It wasn't until Future: Eve of War had things changed yet again. It introduced a standard set of rules that is still used by most map games today and player turn structure (Diplomacy, Military, Economy, Government) that players got used to in other map games.
==List of games==
There are currently 9 games in the series.
Game 	Started on 	Finished on 	Game Manager
The Future 	25 December 2014 	15 June 2015 	Mapmaker024 (creator), Disturbedfan1100, starring94
The Future Revived 	14 April 2015, 19 August 2015	1 July 2015, 14 September 2015	MultiMappers (creator), Asdf Mapping, Batran99, Flaming Spaghetti Monster, starring94
The Future: Collapse 	4 July 2015 	15 July 2015 	KommunistKoala AP (creator)
The Future Reloaded 	9 October 2015 	8 November 2015 	starring94 (creator)
The Future: Eve of War 	16 March 2016 	19 May 2016 	Batran99, Flaming Spaghetti Monster, FedexWI
The Future: Volatile Earth 	5 June 2016 	23 June 2016 	KommunistKoala AP (creator), Flaming Spaghetti Monster, Aendarus Mapping
The Future: New Era 	21 July 2016 	7 August, 2016 	Flaming Spaghetti Monster (creator), ThatMapperGuy, TheSoaringHawk
The Future: Awakening 	30 August 2016 	13 September 2016 	FedexWI (co-creator), Flaming Spaghetti Monster (co-creator), IonMapping
The Future: New Era Revived	5 September 2016 	18 September 2016 	ThatMapperGuy (creator), Flaming Spaghetti Monster
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
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==Planned Map Games==
* The Future: Ice Age - The concept of the map game dated back to Mid- 2016. Set in 2075 (60 years after original The Future, about about 30 years after The Future: Eve of War), the allied victory (rather than fascist) has resulted in a post-war technological boom that advanced human technology and social progress. With the help of the harnessing of the sun, genetic modifications, and invention of the limited self-aware AI Tank called Bolos, first invented in 2052 and the recent introduction of the sixth series, humanity has evolved into a FULLY Type I civilization with its hints of nearing Type II production. However, by this time, as humanity switched to renewable resources, the world by this time had been overdue for an ice age. It also features as the official continuation of The Future: Eve of War with parts from other The Future: Map Games in different universes. The Game is planned to introduce (or developed the original concept of) a new "Survival" gameplay rather than domination. Players must survive in a continuously shrinking habitable map, fighting each other for room and resources at the equator.
==Cancelled Map Games==
*The Future: Storyshift Revolution:
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