{"id":990,"date":"2008-07-08T11:43:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T15:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/08\/ensemble-and-console-rts\/"},"modified":"2008-07-08T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T15:43:21","slug":"ensemble-and-console-rts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/08\/ensemble-and-console-rts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensemble and Console RTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to check my blogroll more often since I missed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ensemblestudios.com\/blogs\/bshelley\/archive\/2008\/06\/30\/age-of-empires-iii-20-million-games-played-and-halo-wars-controls.aspx\">this post from Bruce Shelley<\/a> about many things. Most importantly, it says a few things about how their RTS <em>Halo Wars<\/em> will be controlled on the console.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I may have mentioned many blogs ago that we reprogrammed Age of Mythology to be playable with an Xbox controller as a proof of concept. Designer\/programmer Tim Deen got to the point that he could play AoM better with the controller than the mouse\/keyboard. We are very excited about how the new, built from scratch, control system is working. We know that if we do a good job with Halo Wars, especially the controls, it could encourage a much more rich and interesting genre of console strategy games for the future. Ideally we would like to do for strategy games on the console what Halo itself did for first-person shooters on the console.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written that <em>Halo Wars<\/em> could be the RTS to solve the controller puzzle since it is being designed with the 360 in mind. Mind you, a lot of people have said that they solved the problem in their ports of PC games, and been largely wrong. (My review of the 360 <em>Supreme Commander<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispygamer.com\/_GeneratedPages\/GameReviews\/Review322.aspx\">up at Crispy Gamer<\/a>, but I&#8217;ll more to say on that once I&#8217;ve put the 360 <em>Kane&#8217;s Wrath<\/em> through the wringer. Gas Powered Games and Hellbent have done a lot of stuff right with the controller adaptation, but didn&#8217;t adjust the scale of the game to the demands of sitting seven to ten feet from what is going on.)<\/p>\n<p>Does Tim Deen really think that the prototype console controls for <em>Age of Mythology<\/em> beat the mouse? I&#8217;d be stunned if this were the case, especially since there is a lot of micromanagment of economic stuff going on in AoM, and this is generally where the console controls start to come apart.<\/p>\n<p>(Post spotted at <a href=\"http:\/\/gamesetwatch.com\">Game, Set, Watch<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to check my blogroll more often since I missed this post from Bruce Shelley about many things. Most importantly, it says a few things about how their RTS Halo Wars will be controlled on the console. I may have mentioned many blogs ago that we reprogrammed Age of Mythology to be playable with [&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":[74,59,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-fY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}