The Telegraph has published an article two days ago, probably also related to Sid’s birthday, about his story and the experiences with Civilization. (The image of Sid Meier is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license, and is taken from here). So it’s perhaps easy to overlook how important the investment in game design and gameplay is.”” “In a sense gameplay is cheap… The game design part is critical and crucial but doesn’t require a cast of thousands in the way some of the other aspects do. “Sid Meier says that if major companies continue to focus on ways like this to monetise gaming, they risk losing the audience: “People can assume that a game is going to be fun and what it needs for success are more cinematics or monetisation or whatever – but if the core just is not there with good gameplay, then it won’t work. The views in the article probably come due to the recent increase in the monetisation in this industry, not only with in-app purchases and micro-transactions, but also with the recent NFT hype.įiraxis has gladly never said anything about the latter, and we are very happy about it. The BBC has an article with Sid Meier, where he talks about the current development in the games industry. The game is also cheap, so I guess this can’t hurt to maybe have a look if you’re running low on unplayed games in your Steam library. This game does not fall into our core focus area, but turn-based games which have building and fighting are probably somewhat of interest for us. The game normally costs 8.19€, but is currently discounted to 7.37€. Right now there are no grand strategy features or diplomacy, but we got told this could be an option for the future. You fight with your cards in a fantasy setting, trying to beat your opponent on the other side of the map.Īccording to the devs there is also some building involved, you build infrastructure, and need to manage its upkeep with gold.
The developers of Dragon Evo have asked us to spread the word about their just released game, and we are happy to do so, if it falls somewhat in the interest area of us CivFanatics.ĭragon Evo is (per description) a turn-based deck-builder, so similar in some way to Magic The Gathering.