{"id":213,"date":"2005-08-18T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2006-08-18T17:37:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T21:37:48","slug":"tilted-mill-builds-again-caesar-iv-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/08\/18\/tilted-mill-builds-again-caesar-iv-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilted Mill builds again &#8211; Caesar IV for real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tilted Mill, the developers of my favorite city builder, <i>Children of the Nile<\/i>, have announced that <i>Caesar IV<\/i> is in the works. The made the announcement at this week&#8217;s game developer&#8217;s conference in Leipzig. Vivendi Universal, the heirs of Sierra, will be publishing it. All the news at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caesariv.com\/\">www.caesariv.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to Rome is a good move for Tilted Mill. As former Impressions employees, the legacy of the <i>Caesar <\/i>series looms large. Rome is familiar to gamers, and has a more traditional economy than the feudal oligarchy of ancient Egypt. There&#8217;s a nice b<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caesariv.com\/uk\/game_info\/chronicles.php\">rief on the history<\/a> of the <i>Caesar<\/i> games at the new game&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n<p><i>Caesar IV<\/i> will have the walkers follow their needs just as they did in <i>Children of the Nile<\/i> instead of following the near random routes that they did in the earlier games. I loved this innovation, though not all did. One friend disdains my love of <i>Children of the Nile<\/i> and, like many gamers, considers <i>Pharaoh<\/i> a superior game.<\/p>\n<p>Tilted Mill will have some competition, though. Deep Silver&#8217;s <i>Heart of Empire: Rome<\/i> is on its way and will probably hit stores before <i>Caesar IV<\/i> does.  There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a lot to choose between the graphics. I do hope that they keep the grungy feel of <i>CotN<\/i>; in spite of what Hollywood would have you believe, the ancient world was not all stone and marble.<\/p>\n<p>No release date appears to be set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tilted Mill, the developers of my favorite city builder, Children of the Nile, have announced that Caesar IV is in the works. The made the announcement at this week&#8217;s game developer&#8217;s conference in Leipzig. Vivendi Universal, the heirs of Sierra, will be publishing it. All the news at www.caesariv.com. Returning to Rome is a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-3r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}