Our moderator Eagle Pursuit has dug up another curiosity: The Civilization Youtube account lists a “video is hidden” among its trailers (see here, on top). What does this mean? New content for Civ6? An announcement trailer for Civ7? We don’t know! Come speculate with us here.
And we are now at the 10th dev diary for Ara: History Untold.
In this episode the devs talk about the AI behind Ara, and they talk about software engineering, that the AI in 4X games is among the hardest, how randomization, e.g. the availability of resources play into how the AI behaves, and way more details.
Check it out, and discuss it with us here.
For this month’s GOTM we strive for great things: You play as Rameses II on a standard size inland sea map on Prince level. Your goal is to win via a culture or diplomatic victory, but you need to avoid the biblical plagues (disaster level of 1). You have until December 2 to build the pyramids and all other wonders!
For more info please check this thread.
Our moderator bite has again taken up the humongous task of creating a full map for another game, this time for Old World. On his site he has noted down all cities, tribes, natural features such as mountains, rivers, volcanoes, etc, to create an all-encompassing map of this game. If you want to see how big the “Old World” is, then check out his website here and discuss with us here.
Given that the rainy season has started for this GOTM, we go to England! You play this time as Victoria on a standard size islands map on Immortal level. You can dominate the planet in any way you want, until December 4. For more details please see this thread.
Most people here will have heard of FreeCiv, a freely available game inspired by Civ2.
But did you know there is another longstanding game with the same inspiration?
Meet C-Evo!
C-Evo has been in development since the times of Windows 95, mostly being a single person project. It aims to improve and fix mistakes from Civ2, and not to overhaul the game. It aims at a slim rule set, and the AI is made to win, not to roleplay.
As you can see from the screenshots it really has a Civ2 feeling too!
Civ-Evo is currently available for Windows and Linux, in English, Russian, Italian, Czech, German, and simplified and traditional Chinese.
You can download the current version here, and read more info about it here. And obviously we also have a thread for it here.
The developers of Ara: History Untold have released another dev diary, this time about improvements and triumphs.
They talk about the improvements you need to harvest resources for your empire, how you make production chains, how they contribute to your victory, and more.
And for halloween they guys have also dressed up! Discuss this video with us here.
We got another developer diary from the new Paradox game Millennia!
This time the diary is about the combat in the game. The combat is different to civ games, as you can group multiple units into armies (a bit similar to Civ3), but multiple armies will fight each other in a simulated battle, on which you have no influence on itself, besides the troop composition. There are more details in this dev diary, like the production of the units and how leaders are used on the battle field.
For all this information please check this thread.