{"id":742,"date":"2007-08-23T14:12:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T18:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/23\/age-of-empires-retrospective\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T14:15:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T18:15:39","slug":"age-of-empires-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/23\/age-of-empires-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Empires Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra has just published a story on the <em>Age of Empires<\/em> panel at GCDC. Bruce Shelley, Brian Sullivan and Rick and Tony Goodman were there to talk about the history of the franchise. A note for the writers &#8211; when you have two Goodmans talking you can&#8217;t just write &#8220;said Goodman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t a lot of surprises in the story. Shelley has often said that the Age games were historical because nobody else was doing that in the post-<em>Warcraft<\/em>\/post-<em>Command and Conquer<\/em> world. I like this sort of talk, though, because you can learn a lot about game design philosophies in panels like this. <\/p>\n<p>You can see how <em>Empire Earth<\/em> was born, for example.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Rick came in, and had a really ambitious game in mind, and Brian&#8217;s goal was to get the game back in size.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra has just published a story on the Age of Empires panel at GCDC. Bruce Shelley, Brian Sullivan and Rick and Tony Goodman were there to talk about the history of the franchise. A note for the writers &#8211; when you have two Goodmans talking you can&#8217;t just write &#8220;said Goodman.&#8221; There aren&#8217;t a lot [&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":[59,78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-bY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}