Robert Whitaker from the History Respawnd podcast has released a new episode if his Civ 101 series, this time featuring India.The description from his website:“Bob talks with Dr. Amber Abbas about the India Civ. Topics include Gandhi, Gandhi as an imperialist(?!), the alternative of Asoka and Chandragupta, Dharma as a unique ability, who “belongs” in India and Indian… Read More »
The History Respawned Podcast talks in its current episode (listen above) about Cleopatra, the Egyptian civ and Civilization.This podcast is produced by Bob Whitaker, a history professor, and here he talks with Dr. Prudence Jones, a history researcher at Montclair State University, who is specialized in Roman and Egyptian antiquity. Direct link to podcast: https://www.historyrespawned.com/home/2022/3/31/civs-101-egyptFollow History Respawned on… Read More »
Soren Johnson has given a talk at this year’s “Game Developers Conference“, titled“My Elephant in the Room: An ‘Old World’ Postmortem“. In this talk, he apparently also coverd the Civ3 bargaining table, since PCGamer has an article titled “Soren Johnson says Civ 3’s bargaining table was a ‘big mistake’“.In this article they cover how Soren thinks that this… Read More »
Anton Strenger, the lead designer of the Civ6 “New Frontier Pass”, has given a presentation at this year’s “Game Developer’s Conference“. His presentation was titled “Ahistorical Accuracy: Bringing New Myths and Representation to ‘Civilization’”, and you can find the summary here. The talks were recorded, but he does not yet know if the recording will be freely available.… Read More »
For the celebration of Women’s history month, Firaxis has released some great artworks for some of the female Civ leaders.The artworks were drawn by 2 employes of 2K and a freelance artist, some are more in the style of Civ, some less. You can find all the artwork here: https://civilization.com/fr-FR/news/entries/civilization-celebrates-women-s-history-month/ and discuss them in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civilization-celebrates-womens-history-month.675939/
Robert Houghton from Winchester University has given an online presentation about Civ, and talks about many things, including how to improve the game with mechanics from other games. It’s long, but have a watch! Discuss this video in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/robert-houghton-%E2%80%98sid-meier%E2%80%99s-civilization%E2%80%99-breaking-genres-for-better-histories.675763/
The BBC has an article with Sid Meier, where he talks about the current development in the games industry. The views in the article probably come due to the recent increase in the monetisation in this industry, not only with in-app purchases and micro-transactions, but also with the recent NFT hype. He also talks about the rise of… Read More »
The Telegraph has published an article two days ago, probably also related to Sid’s birthday, about his story and the experiences with Civilization. They talk about how Sid himself started up in gaming, the relationship to education, and development rules like the 1/3rd rule: 1/3rd keep, 1/3rd improve, 1/3rd new. An excerpt: “Can Civ games – which feature… Read More »