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Inspired by the success of his recent game "FrontierVille", Gaming Legend Brian Reynolds today announced a sequel to the critically acclaimed Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri. Your mission: Return to the devastated earth and rebuild a civilization that has fallen back into untamed wilderness. "I was able to convince my employers at Zynga East to merge the possibilities of different ideologies in a futuristic setting with the convenience of social networking games", Reynolds stated in our interview, "so they bought the rights from EA". Did the efforts of his former chief at Firaxis Games, Sid Meier, to transfer the Civilization Universe into facebook, influence Reynolds own plans? Reynolds: "Sids impact on Alpha Centauri has been very low and yet he earned all the esteem, so yes, it's a bit of a competition between us and Sids 'Civ Worlds' facebook project".
The good news for SMAC-verterans: The original seven factions will also play a major role, extended by the possibility to buy factions from the expansion set through an ingame payment system via PayPal or credit card. "SMACVille" as it is currently entitled is based upon FrontierVille and will allow players to take their experience to a whole new level. "Overly complex games like the first SMAC don't sell anymore", Reynolds says, "so we stripped the game of the too much demanding aspects". It is intended to remove mind-worms and the combat system to focus on a more family-friendly playing style. "But you can still chop forests", Reynolds promises. By adding as many friends as possible players will be able to send each other energy resources and unlock more advanced facilities. There might also be an easter egg: "If we reach 4 million 'likes' we might unlock a naked dancing Deirdre ... or Lal".
Read more:
http://blog.games.com/2010/06/09/oh-pioneer-frontiervilles-brian-reynolds-takes-on-the-wild-wes/
The good news for SMAC-verterans: The original seven factions will also play a major role, extended by the possibility to buy factions from the expansion set through an ingame payment system via PayPal or credit card. "SMACVille" as it is currently entitled is based upon FrontierVille and will allow players to take their experience to a whole new level. "Overly complex games like the first SMAC don't sell anymore", Reynolds says, "so we stripped the game of the too much demanding aspects". It is intended to remove mind-worms and the combat system to focus on a more family-friendly playing style. "But you can still chop forests", Reynolds promises. By adding as many friends as possible players will be able to send each other energy resources and unlock more advanced facilities. There might also be an easter egg: "If we reach 4 million 'likes' we might unlock a naked dancing Deirdre ... or Lal".
Read more:
http://blog.games.com/2010/06/09/oh-pioneer-frontiervilles-brian-reynolds-takes-on-the-wild-wes/
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