A first look at Allied Nations: Reborn
Meet the frontier-company premise behind our fantasy colony and nation-building simulation, and the first systems taking shape in development.
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A fantasy colony & nation-building simulation
Choose a starting region, lead a small company, and direct the work of building a settlement.
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Developed by Alex Cooper · Published by OpenACAI Inc
Inside the current build
Development images · September 2026
Choosing a world
Development screenshot · Choose a starting region on the rotatable globe and adjust ocean coverage, climate, rainfall and relief. The castle scene behind the menu is background illustration.
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On the ground, you select your people and direct their work. Mark a tree for cutting and it falls, leaving logs behind. Starter houses, a guardhouse, storage halls and physical containers are now part of the developing settlement.
What is still being built
These are early systems, not a finished economy. Hauling, production and longer food and water cycles still need work before a settlement can sustain itself.
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Trees across the seasons
Development art · Seasonal sprites for Norway spruce, European larch, European beech and common ash, arranged from spring to winter. An art sheet used by the game, not a gameplay screenshot.
Sprite assets © OpenACAI Inc / Alex Cooper.
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Meet Alex Cooper
Known online as Godsring
Reborn grows out of Alex's interest in worlds that change alongside their players. Dwarf Fortress, Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder helped shape that interest. His earlier projects include Dungeon Master, developed with Ginseng, and the original Allied Nations.
He is now developing Reborn on OpenACAI's custom Godot-based engine, with OpenACAI Inc as publisher.
Alex's story and the project's roots