The new history-themed game developed by Paradox, Millennia, has been released today.
We made a whole forum for this game, and you might want to check out the following threads:
We are looking forward to many interesting discussions.
New indie game release: LakeSide
This game has been in development and alpha-stage for a while, as you can see by the above video by GamerZakh, which is now 2 years old. But today it has been released, so it’s worth a thread!
This game is a side scrolling city builder, which I am not sure is a usual thing. Instead of looking down on your city, and planing from the bird’s eye perspective, you’re looking at it from the side, and planing houses into a pixel art landscape. There seem to be multiple stages of each house, you can upgrade your buildings, and even build wonders like the pyramids or the colosseum, if you just have enoug resources!
Due to the pixel art the game runs also on rather old computers. The price is normally 14.99, but has been discounted until April 1 down to 10.49.
Millennia – the reviews
The first reviews for Millennia are in!
- IGN https://www.ign.com/articles/millennia-review
- PCGamesN https://www.pcgamesn.com/millennia/review
- Wargamer https://www.wargamer.com/millennia/review
The verdict seems similar to what the Civ-Fanatics crowd has noticed during the demo: The game has interesting ideas, and can fascinate you for a while. The graphics aren’t pretty though, and there are things which do not connect nicely, gameplay wise. The civs are bland, but the ages and economy are interesting. Overall probably a solid game, which needs some more work (patches, tweaking and expansions), to make it potentially a great game.
PolyCast 431: Daylight Savings
The four-hundred-and-thirty-first episode of PolyCast, “Daylight Savings“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:
News
– 00h02m50s | March Challenge of the Month: The Ides of March
– 00h12m45s | Latest Information on the Civilization Mobile Game
– 00h14m46s | Millennia Release Date and Ages Dev Diary
– 00h22m06s | AI LLM Simulations Often Choose Violence and Nuclear War
Forum Talk
– 00h32m52s | A Comparison Between Civ4’s Nationality and Civ6’s Loyalty
Research Lab
– 00h50m41s | Possibilities for Group Victories
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on March 16, 2024.
PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production recording live every other Saturday at 12 Noon US Eastern Time throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice.
The next episode is scheduled to be streamed live at 12:15 PM EDT on March 30, 2024.
Come and discuss this episode with us here.
Millennia Developer Diary – Art of the Ages
We got another developer diary from the new Paradox game Millennia!
This time the diary is about the art style. As we are already used from civ, most items, no matter if technology, unit, improvements and others have their own customized icons, as well as 3D models. The ages also have their own art style, obviously. This diary contains a range screenshots, which are better suited to provide any more information, so please check this thread.
CivBattleRoyale Season 4 (CBR X4) – Episode 1
The Civ5 Battle Royale is huge but the concept of the show is pretty simple! On a massive world map, 61 AI Civilizations got at it to see which one can be the last one standing. All Civilizations are chosen by the audience of the civbattleroyale reddit group and part of the fun is helping narrate the story collectively along with original content and putting your support behind one of the competitors. No human intervention in the show as a several months long game is recorded and then curated into episodes across the action. Episodes are narrated by members of their 10k+ sized community cheering on the AIs on their unpredictable route to victory. Three seasons have been recorded so far, and the 4th one has just started, the first episode you can find above. If you are interested in following or discussing, then join us in our thread here.
First Human to Receive Neuralink Implant Says It Lets Him Play Civilization VI
The PCMag (and various other outlets) have reported about today’s first video of Neuralink’s first implant: The Neuralink implant is a brain implant for quadriplegic people people, allowing them to move a cursor on a screen. While in general not a new invention, Elon Musk’s company has managed to garner widespread media attention for the first implantation of such a device. The patient reports playing chess with the device, and also playing Civ6 until 6 in the morning.
The video can be found here (mentioned around the 3:30 mark), and also the official Civilization Twitter account has picked up these news.
Glad to see that games can give people joy in their life, although we certainly hope that he’ll have additional useful uses for it in the future.
(Back Episode) PolyCast 419: News, News, and More News
The four-hundred-and-nineteenth episode of PolyCast, “News, News, and More News“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:
News
– 06m34s | Leader Pass Developer Livestream
– 25m48s | Civilization VI Added to Game Pass
– 30m16s | April Fools from Firaxis
– 39m30s | Christopher Tin in the Classic FM Hall of Fame
– 45m07s | April 2023 Patch Notes
– 58m03s | Atari Reacquires MicroProse and Infograms
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on April 22, 2023. (Back Episode)
PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production recording live every other Saturday at 12 Noon US Eastern Time throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice. Streaming is currently disabled due to ongoing technical issues.