This is great news for the Pox Nora team. How will Sony use this new property? Tycho sees a future for Sony’s CCGs at Playstation Home.
Topics: Industry

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A writer with the name “Poisoned Sponge” has written a long post dealing with a question that I have tackled before many times. Taking the Total War games as his starting point, the writer asks about how far game designers can deal with the...
Topics: Design, History

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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)..
Topics: Creative Assembly, Preview

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Soren Johnson has posted his “seven deadly sins” of strategy game design, a column that (I think) premiered in an issue of Game Developer magazine earlier this year.His point on scripting (#1) and on story (#7) are two sides of the same coin..
Topics: Blogs, Design

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Michael Akinde, developer of the still not finished Imperium - Rise of Rome, has started blogging about some of the design details of the combat model in his game. The starter post can be found here, and his thoughts on how to reflect troop types and...
Topics: Ancients, Design, Imperium

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