Computer games aren't written in a day

[strange_complex]

Wow - could this be my ideal computer game? CivCity: Rome.

The screenshots are promising: hardly a historically-accurate rendering of Rome's topography, but, then again, if the user is getting to build their own Rome, then why shouldn't the Colosseum, Circus Maximus and Pantheon all be right next to each other? And the renditions of each are very nice (although if they're to scale, the people in the Colosseum must be about twenty feet tall!).

Good thing it doesn't come out until the summer, really, or I could kiss goodbye to the book...

Comments

[edling.livejournal.com]

Ooh- that does look like it'd be worth keeping an eye on. I think I played some of Firefly's earlier games and they were fun, and Firaxis are pretty good, even though I found Civ IV a little disappointing, personally.
If you mailed them saying what you do, it's quite probable you could persuade them to send you preview/beta copies to test, then if you like it they get to put lots of positive quotes from an expert in their press releases (and I could, erm, provide technical support...)

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Now that is sharp thinking! I still think I'll try and get the book finished first, though, as it is a slightly higher priority...

[edling.livejournal.com]

You can't say that while wielding that icon!

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Nonsense: academia is just a particularly erudite form of geekdom.

[kkjxx.livejournal.com]

Strictly speaking, by accepted definition, a "geek" is merely an individual with a great deal of specialised knowledge that the average layman would have difficulty understanding. Academics are the original geeks!

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[edling.livejournal.com]

Dammit- foiled by non-computer related geekery again!

[megamole.livejournal.com]

shurely "fairground performer who bites the heads off live chickens?"

Fairly specialised, admittedly...