Not a lot of stuff we didn’t know in the new trailer (number two of five), but that hasn’t stopped me from writing yet. 1) The campaign map looks great in the three seconds we see of it. I expect that will be the next thing we’ll see. 2) Elephants. Always with the elephants. Part […]
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Hinterland Combat Videos
September 24th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Preview, Tilted Mill
Tilted Mill has uploaded a couple of battle movies from their upcoming fantasy city management/RPG Hinterland. Not much to see in them since the videos are both very short and very compressed. You see heroes beating on monsters and then picking up loot. Not a lot of information about the game in that. We do […]
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Fidgit Colonization Diary
September 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Firaxis, Preview
If, like me, you have been waiting anxiously for the new Civ 4: Colonization, you can sate your appetite for a while by reading Tom Chick’s game diary over at Fidgit. Today’s lessons? You can name terrain features like rivers, just as in ye olde Conquest of the New World. And there are both burial […]
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Game Writing Gone Horribly Bizarre
September 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Firaxis, Preview
From Jon Miller’s multiplayer preview of Civ 4: Colonization at Gamespot. However, we remained mindful of the number of turns we had remaining in the game, since the ultimate goal of the game is to build your fledgling settlements into a nation that’s powerful enough to fight off the advances of your home country and […]
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Solium Infernum Updates
September 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Cryptic Comet, Design, Preview
Just a reminder that the last month or so has been chock full of design diary stuff about Vic Davis’s upcoming Solium Infernum. Some highlights. My design goal was to incorporate both known and hidden information into a system that let you try and get a feel for how combats might resolve but had enough […]
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Building A Commercial Empire
August 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Preview
East India Company has somehow slipped under my radar. If it weren’t for the updated screenshots on Gamespy, I might have missed it altogether. It has naval warfare, just like Empire: Total War, but mostly seems to be a trading game. You set up outposts and make money. This screenshot shows a minimap in the […]
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