I actually went to his website - and wowzers, you're right.

That Legends of Yore is great. It's actually similar to something I've been trying to do.

Any chance you've got any tutorials on designing these styled games? The tutorials on the site are more geared towards real time shooting based games.

I went and bought the Legends of Yor for my iTouch after playing it on your site - it's great.

honestly - don't make it look cooler.

You did really well with those graphics (way better than I could ever hope to do). It gives it a nice style - and it makes it yours. Don't muddle with that. If you want to do a little better, than I say work on the graphics yourself a bit more - because you did a great job to begin with. No reason to ruin that.

Looks pretty cool to me.

Isometric view is a good idea. I'm trying to figure out how to do isometric views myself (having a hard time with it), but it looks far, far better than just regular top down view 2D.

I would say - go for a "high score" kind of game. Give the player a set amount of time to see how far they can get. How many planets they can get colonies on, how far into tech trees they can get, etc.