I am playing quite a few betas right now, but I don’t want to talk about them. Mostly because I can’t, they are connected to work and clients and there are real serious beta testers doing their jobs and anything I say would muck up the whole thing. I will say that I am privileged [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Design'
Road to Enlightenment, Gateway to Learning
October 13th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Board Games, Design, History
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One If By Sea. And Maybe Another Later.
September 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Design, Firaxis
Unlike Champ over here, I don’t have F1 2011 yet. So, I decompressed last night with Civilization V, a game I haven’t really spent a lot of time with lately because its tactical military issues were never quite resolved to my satisfaction. Re-reading Todd Brakke’s thoughtful (and frustrating) game diaries over at No High Scores [...]
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A World You Believe In
September 15th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Design
As emotional as I can get when I start deciding which of my enemies I hate, one of the big challenges for strategy games is creating a playing field that is interesting and alive. This is where the role-playing side of strategy games comes in, I suppose. (I often mock Tom Chick by suggesting he [...]
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Play The Rainbow: Early Thoughts on Pride of Nations
September 11th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Design, Paradox, Wargames
I can’t rightly remember the first grand strategy game to have multiple map overlays, each designed to show different bit of pertinent information. Europa Universalis was 2000, and it had different maps for diplomacy, terrain and religion as well as the political map where I did most of my work. Civilization IV came later and [...]
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GDC Panel on Strategy Games
August 22nd, 2011 · 4 Comments · Design, GDC
The GDC panel with Tom Chick, Dustin Browder, Soren Johnson, Ian Fischer and Jon Shafer is now available for viewing at the GDC vault. A great discussion.
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04 07 1942 21:36: “Convoy is to scatter”*
August 22nd, 2011 · 11 Comments · Board Games, Design, Wargames
At 11.52 a.m. on 20 September, Rolf Hilse, on board U-48, received a coded message from Günther Prien in U-47. He had spotted a large eastbound convoy heading to Britain, and since U-48 had the latest most advanced radio equipment, he asked her to report this news to Dönitz at his command post in Lorient. [...]
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