And we are now at the 16th dev diary for Ara: History Untold.
This time the devs talk about gaming the art in the game. They talk about how to choose the style for a game, how to properly represent cultures and how they try to give a customized style for each new play of the game.
Check it out, and discuss it with us here.
Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update revamps all language localizations, brings you more events, new map scripts, new game options, balance changes, and much more!
Discuss this update with us here (and read the full list of changes too).
Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.
The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 10 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Duel, Normal, Warlord, Space Colony game for 206,705 points.
nocho and ruff_hi were the most active players during this update, submitting 3 games each.
No player was brave enough to take on Deity this update.
New Number One Entries:
A number of players gained number one positions:
nocho with a 1585 AD, Large, Epic, Prince, Espionage game for 71,089 points.
nocho with a 1370 AD, Large, Epic, Prince, Cultural game for 120,311 points.
nocho with a 1500 AD, Duel, Normal, Warlord, Space Colony game for 206,705 points.
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A number of players gained a composite table High Score (i.e. Any Condition):
nocho with a 1500 AD, Duel, Normal, Warlord, game for 206,705 points.
Gauntlet Updates
Congratulations to nocho for winning G-Minor 274 with a date of 1500AD, ruff_hi was 2nd in 1775AD.
New Gauntlet Starting
G-Minor 275 – Diplomatic, Emperor, Ancient, Tiny, Epic, Great Plains, (check options)
Please join us for “Hall Of Fame” discussion here.
From February 5 to 12, you will be able to try out a free demo of Millennia, the new (semi) historical 4X by Paradox games!
The demo will be single player, and you will be able to play at maximum 60 turns up until the 3rd age.
Join us for the discussion about the free demo here.
A first gameplay video is in the meantime also available, please check here.
The Millennia Twitter account has announced that on Monday 29th, at 14:30 CET you will be able to watch the first gameplay video.
The video will be streamed on their youtube channel, and you will be able to discuss it with us here.
No further information has currently been provided.
The Pourdavoud Institute for the studies of ancient Persia is running a podcast called “Legacies of Ancient Persia”.
In their latest episode they have interviewed Leyla Johnson, and talk about her middle Eastern background and obviously Old World. Leyla tells how she loves history (and to talk with Soren about it), how the interviewer got her 84 years old father to play Old World and he loved the history in it, that Old World was the only indy game to be nominated for a Grammy, and much more.
Listen to the whole podcast here, and discuss it with us here.
These news have been sourced from Twitter.
We got another developer diary from the new Paradox game Millennia!
This time the diary is again about how the economy works. Overall this works comparable to Civ, in the sense that you have a city where you build buildings which give bonuses in certain areas, and in the surrounding you build improvements. The improvements produce distinct goods though (so wheat is not exchangable with pigs or rice), and this has overall downstream effects. For more information the economy in Millennia please check this thread.
And also in the new year 2024 Civ3 stays eternal, and the team is ready to provide you a new quarterly challenge!
In the Civ3 GOTM for “Play The World” you play as China on a normal size Pangaea map with restless barbarians on Regent level. Other details about the map are unknown, but you get 2 additional warriors to make up for this. You have until March 31st to finish this game, and you can find all other information here.
In the Civ3 GOTM for “Conquests” you play as Iroquois on a standard size Pangaea map with 60% water on Deity level, with an extra-tough starting position. Also here you get until March 31st to survive, and you can find more information here.