During the talk Soren Johnson, the lead designer for Civ4 and also for Old World, has covered parts of the presentation on Twitter. We have collected theset Tweets, have a look in our forum to read and discuss them.
We continue our series about potentially interesting games for Civ-fans, and this time it’s about Hexarchy. Hexarchy is a civ-like game, it plays on a hex-grid, turn-based, and you build cities, units and wonders. The main difference to Civ is that it is a deck-builder: You have each round a certain amount of cards (units, buildings, technologies, etc), which you can use, if you have enough production and resources. Non-used cards you may discard or keep for the next round, whereas used cards vanish and will be replenished from the card stack. It is set up for a lot shorter games than Civ though, most should be over in one hour.
Our long term user alcaras has made a video about some basics in Old World. Have a watch if you want to get to know some of the mechanics deeper, and discuss this video in the Old World video thread.
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.
Christopher Tin has shared on Twitter this video by the Avon Indoor Winds, who are apparently performing at a flight-themed show called “Murmuration”. Their performance features “Sogno Di Volare”, with parts of “Iza Ngomso”, among other songs.
There’s a new announcement at the games2gether forum about the upcoming Holi event, based on an Indian religious day. It’s basically a follow-up of last year’s Dia de los Muertos. It is again a timed-event, from March 17 until April 11. The challenges for this period are the following:
Shrewd General: Force an Expansionist Empire that has Vassals to Surrender
Famous Accumulate 40 000 Fame over several games.
Smite the Wicked: Earn a level 3 Hero badge while playing as the Mughals.
Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest patch for their game. This update includes balancing changes, an update for the mod menu, and 44 new events.
