Yup, the links are: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/elementalwarofmagic/news.html?sid=6200601&om_act=convert&om_clk=newsfeatures&tag=newsfeatures;title http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/920/920420p1.html The first one's a lot more interesting, though :) ...and it looks GREAT. I just hope there aren't just two sides...
Well, FlyByU, programming teams always have a huge amount of ideas on what they might code. The big question is, which of these many ideas *should* they code? And I believe they're doing the right thing: looking at old games who have such good gameplay that they're still being played today despite 320x200x256 graphics and other limitations. For example, Master of Orion -> GalCiv (and they were the first to actuall ymanage that, although very many others tried).
My very dear Stardock (yes - due to your very good games), if you allow me to seriously beta-test your non-MoM game (and I'm uniquely suited *brag* as I've been playing on computers since 1981, and coding commercially since '84) I am VERY willing to buy that game in advance, paying full price without even looking at it first. If you manage to take the MoM idea, the game with so extremely many way to play, so many different paths to victory, manage to take over the entir