Jake Solomon on his journey from underqualified graphics programmer to master strategist

[Gorbles]

Bit of a curveball but didn't know where to put this. It's a good journey through Jake Solomon's time with Firaxis.

Jake Solomon on his journey from underqualified graphics programmer to master strategist

From Civ 3 to XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns, Jake Solomon shares his thoughts on his extensive back catalog

www.gamesradar.com

I love gamesdev history, especially when it's straight from the devs, so this was a bit of a treat.

Moderator Action: Moved to a separate thread.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I love gamesdev history, especially when it's straight from the devs, so this was a bit of a treat.

Did you see the video The J posted over in the Old World forum with Soren Jonson addressing the GDC?

GDC 2022, Soren Johnson: My Elephant in the Room: An 'Old World' Postmortem

Soren Johnson's talk from the GDC of 2022 has now been released on Youtube. He talks obviously about Old World, about Civilization and how Old World is similar and different, and about issues of the 4X genre in general. He also talks about the decision to include characters and a kind of story...

forums.civfanatics.com

 

[Gorbles]

Did you see the video The J posted over in the Old World forum with Soren Jonson addressing the GDC?

GDC 2022, Soren Johnson: My Elephant in the Room: An 'Old World' Postmortem

Soren Johnson's talk from the GDC of 2022 has now been released on Youtube. He talks obviously about Old World, about Civilization and how Old World is similar and different, and about issues of the 4X genre in general. He also talks about the decision to include characters and a kind of story...

forums.civfanatics.com

I did, yeah! Good stuff.

EDIT - wait, I was thinking of something else. Didn't realise the GDC talk was on YouTube already. So thanks again - going to be watching this one shortly.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I think I might make a thread based on it, on core principles of 4x design. Here in OT, not over in the Old World forum.

 

[Takhisis]

Drop us a linky if you do.

 

[The_J]

Bit of a curveball but didn't know where to put this. It's a good journey through Jake Solomon's time with Firaxis.

Jake Solomon on his journey from underqualified graphics programmer to master strategist

From Civ 3 to XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns, Jake Solomon shares his thoughts on his extensive back catalog

www.gamesradar.com

I love gamesdev history, especially when it's straight from the devs, so this was a bit of a treat.

I might move this into a separate thread in ....er... probably the Civ3 forum tomorrow or so, I think it's worth it .

 

[The_J]

I might move this into a separate thread in ....er... probably the Civ3 forum tomorrow or so, I think it's worth it .

Okay, I've now read through the news article, and plugged this into CivRev, since Jake says himself that he's not much of a Civ guy, but apparently he did more work on CivRev than on Civ3. And we don't have a Midnight Suns forum, so here it goes.

Interesting read, but somehow a bit depressing. No matter what he did, besides Midnight Suns, he seems to not have a high opinion of himself. It's good to be critical of oneself, but not everything can be bad, especially with such a career.

EDIT: Main site news item to come in a minute.