MadDjinn scopes out Firaxicon live

[jackal1234]

M&M's idea sounds suspiciously identical to Jon Shafer's upcoming At the Gates game. Each population point in your empire represents a clan with unique traits and strengths and weaknesses and so on.

I went to the site and looked.. Looks pretty cool. Out later this year I just might get it. Shafer's pretty smart designer, found this quote about design in his latest blog post near the end

Naturally, I dove into the deep end of this concrete pool head-first by tackling the most difficult - but also most impactful - challenge of all: making it so that learning the game was, you know, not nigh-impossible for a human adult of above-average intelligence.

At the same time though, I absolutely didn't want to achieve this by simply "dumbing things down" and making the game mechanics themselves simpler. You see, that's cheating. And I'm no cheater.

Rings a bell for me *fingers crossed*

 

[NASAROG]

He's is a very bright person with singular focus. He was working on clan and skill balance, and now he's about to delve into AI.

 

[Yama951]

It didn't say anything other than unused faction symbol.

For the sake of curiosity, is there a picture of the unused faction symbol?

 

[MadDjinn]

Yeah, on my periscope stream. Though the online version is probably gone now I do have a backup video on my phone

 

[Westwall]

For the sake of curiosity, is there a picture of the unused faction symbol?

You can also see it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3raWOKiECI

It's one of the first things shown. It's kind of neat actually.

With a few adjustments, I think it might make a nice Supremacy/Harmony icon if they ever want to bring it out of mothballs.

 

[MadDjinn]

If anyone missed the periscopes, I should have them up on my yt channel in the next day or so.