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This is really about the whole Civ series. https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/jake-solomon-part-1 Because both the interviewer and interviewee shared an important work experience at early 2000s Firaxis, you get some real cool inside stories in this Part 1. Some moments that...

Making this the second Korea-made Civ spinoff, after Civilization Online. https://mmoculture.com/2023/04/civilization-reign-of-power-nexon-shutting-down-mobile-strategy-title-5-months-after-official-launch/

Yeah, I was going to mention original Colonization, which is available on GOG & Steam, but only the DOS version IIRC - the original CD-ROM carries both DOS & Windows 3.1 versions, which have entirely separate art assets. And Civ1 has 3 major iterations from MicroProse: DOS, Mac / Windows 3.0...

Except for all the legal conundrums of using decades-old fan mods with no clear licensing, whose authors may have disappeared off the net :) If we are on things not too likely to happen: One of Civ2's biggest if less talked-about features is the beautiful Civilopedia made in Macromedia...

Your general point of managers budgetting for visible flare that wins them KPI & promotion, instead of substantial but unseen work with real benefits, definitely has a kernel of truth. But the idea for a zombie mode in particular may have originated from Sid Meier. Like several...

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2022/02/21/jeu-video-sid-meier-rock-star-malgre-lui_6114668_4408996.html Unfortunately article seems paywalled. Also interviewed: Bruce Shelley, Soren Johnson, and Bill Stealey. Via the interviewer's twitter:

I don't remember CivWorld (the Facebook game) too clearly, but it didn't have large splash wonder art. Its most important new artworks were the isometric throne room customizations, which are very poor in quality, not indicative of a big art budget. Otherwise, most artworks were reused from...

Relevant trivia thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civilization-iceberg.669754/ Another piece of trivia: Haida civ considered for Rise and Fall https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/r-f-almost-included-the-haida.629447/#post-15055477

The other thing is fantasy modes are not the only thing tested out in the NFP phase. Some of the new modes may also pave the way to future main entry mechanics, especially the new barbarians.

Haven't touched it in a while, you need to either unpack Civ4's FPK files (PakBuild) and browse the files with an image viewer that support DDS texture files, or use a tool that can read from the pack. I used Dragon Unpacker.

See this report on Sid's canceled CivRev2 (not the released game of the same name). Firaxis had been trying to use fantastic themes to expand the palette of Civ gameplay for years. The NFP modes finally gave them a canvas to bring these experiments to shippable form. Whether they can make a...

A little Brian Reynolds trivia: - Brian's belief in empowering the player is why he made Civ2 to have a cheat menu, highly editable data, and scenario support. He built the WW2 Europe scenario to showcase it. - The game industry can be a small place. You see the composer of Rise of Nations...

Ah, an iceberg meme. Civ is such a big family there's endless trivia to mine. Here are some. - Board games: we have iterations of the Francis Tresham original, three separate licensed adaptations (apparently the middle one, based on CivRev, is the best?), and the Soren Johnson-designed card...

Reading this thread, I must say this is quite the telephone game we are witnessing here. From a 250 CE insurgent about which we naturally have limited primary sources, to a 1900 CE booklet on local sights that attributed to her a few words like 扫清海宇 "to sweep clean the realm within the seas"...

1. Rather than 極, which makes no sense as a verb here, the character should be 拯 "rescue". The next word should be 塹壕 - "moat, trench". Together, the phrase is 拯斯民於塹壕: "to save our people from the deep trench." 2. The second word you don't recognize seems like 邪 to me, equivalent to 耶 (yé in...

Hope they remember to also fix aurora!

I've seen posts mentioning that they hadn't seen aurora in Civ6 since GS. Is this an actual issue, or the result of pure chance?

To play detective a bit, there is an important point of suspicion. Setting aside the likelihood of someone violating NDAs so openly on Reddit, the poster claimed: Neither Civ6 itself, nor its official Youtube videos have been localized into Hungarian. Unless 2K are in the process of localizing...

The podcast Designer's Notes, hosted by Civ4's Soren Johnson, has recently released The final part of its Sid Meier interview. In this episode, he talked about his more recent games, including CivRev, the unsuccessful Facebook game CivWorld, and the original plan for CivRev2. As you may recall...

"Designer's Notes" is a podcast hosted by Civ4's Soren Johnson. A few days ago the podcast has wrapped up a four-part interview with Sid Meier, with lots of insider talk about Sid's design process. You may also enjoy the episode with Bruce Shelley, which largely focused on his tenure as Sid's...