Mohawk Games have released the offical manual for Old World: It’s a 100 pages long PDF document with all the basic explanations you need for the game. The manual has been made with the help of a Velociryx, https://www.twitch.tv/velociryx, the author of the SMAC/X strategy guide. You can find the manual here, and you can leave comments in our… Read More »
Civilization’s 30th birthday: Give Civ a present, get one back! To celebrate the 30th birthday of Civilization, we are holding a contest: Give Civ a present, get one back! How would you do this? We are looking for any form of art, created for Civilization! Have you ever drawn something inspired by Civ? Made a sculpture? A lego… Read More »
The developers of Old World have released a new patch. The patch notes can be found here. Besides various tweaks, also more bonus cards and events were added. Discuss the new patch in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-september-1.672965/
Soren Johnson has released his latest blog post about the development of Old World. You can find the blog post here. An excerpt: “I used this opportunity to fix a couple other problems with the design. Players had complained that cities were too similar to each other, which was certainly a problem with yields coming less from the… Read More »
A new patch for Old World has been released. The patch notes can be found here, the full log here. The changes include various balancing related items in single, as well in multiplayer, in addition to 39 new events. Discuss these changes in our Old World forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-august-25-2021.672732/. Follow this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/civfanatics/status/1430645958904369154
Soren Johnson has written another blog post about how the different yields in Old World were developed, and what considerations the developers had. An excerpt: “In contrast, Civ has relied on a much more abstract model that shifts around from game to game. In Civs 1 & 2, resources like Iron and Stone were turned into generic “production”… Read More »
Mohawk Games has released a new patch for Old World. The patch includes AI improvements, performance improvements, and various bug fixes. You can find the full list of changes here: https://gist.github.com/MohawkGames/1f15dc66a5b4ad5aae957247d547a7e6 Discuss Old World in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/categories/old-world.612/
Soren Johnson, the lead designer of Old World, which is probably the biggest contender for Humankind right now, has written another note about the design decisions in Old World. An excerpt: “Of course, every piece of game design is a set of trade-offs, and one of the trade-offs that the traditional tech tree made in the name of… Read More »