{"id":734,"date":"2007-08-19T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T20:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/19\/how-the-pros-see-design\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T20:11:57","slug":"how-the-pros-see-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/19\/how-the-pros-see-design\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Pros See Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the second link to Soren Johnson&#8217;s blog in a week, but he&#8217;s answered a question that people have been asking for while. Alpha Centauri had a unit creation tool, but this feature was not included in Civ 4, even though the latter drew many lessons from the scifi title. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/and_the_answer.htm\">Apparently Firaxis thought the tool broke some basic game design rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Being able to distinguish units is a key graphical issue (perhaps the key graphical issue) for strategy games, and the Unit Workshop tied the hands of the artists trying to make the game&#8217;s sci-fi units look distinct.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And now you know the rest of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the second link to Soren Johnson&#8217;s blog in a week, but he&#8217;s answered a question that people have been asking for while. Alpha Centauri had a unit creation tool, but this feature was not included in Civ 4, even though the latter drew many lessons from the scifi title. Apparently Firaxis thought the tool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[9,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-bQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}