[Civ2] Interview with Michael Haire, former art director at MicroProse who worked on Civ1, Civ2, SMAC

[Blake00]

Over in the other games area Nikolai II has posted a interview with Michael Haire, former art director at MicroProse who's work included Civ1 & Civ2 as well as SMAC for Firaxis.

Thread 'Q&A with: Michael Haire, former artistic director at MicroProse'

Jan 17, 2025

The Norwegian gaming site Spillhistorie.no has interviewed Michael Haire, the former artistic dirtector at MicroProse, who made art for games like Pirates!, Civilization I and II and later Alpha Centauri for Firaxis.

The article is written in Norwegian and can be found here.

However, for those of you who are not fluent, all is not lost! Spillhistorie.no has an English language version of the article too. That one can be found here.

The article goes through, among other things, his experiences with Sid Meier, creating art on Commodore 64 versus IBM PC, what he created...

• Nikolai II
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• Forum: Other Civ-Related/Sid Meier/Firaxis Games

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Judging by his interview he was probably the main person behind the super easily accessible Civ2 art files we all enjoy modding today. Following the links in his interview I found his business page that showcases various bits of art he was involved in the design of which includes the Civ2 diplomacy screen and 3D heralds. I noticed there was a messaging service so I messaged him to thank him for his work on these great old games and making Civ2's art files so accessible (and showed him some of my custom diplomacy screens), I also told him that we still have plenty of people modding Civ2 to do this day, and I got a nice reply!..

 

[Lord_Hill]

What a portfolio, had a hand in all the big sid meier games from the mid 80s all the way through to 99. Very interesting read.