New BE stories

[Buster's Uncle]

...I encourage anyone with less duties making demands on their free time to look through these and start threads w/ summaries and quotes...

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Civilization goes Beyond Earth, but not back to Alpha Centauri

[Buster's Uncle]

From GameCrate:
Civilization: Beyond Earth designers discuss inspirations, aliens, and more

There's an interesting passage about their literary influences...

[BlaneckW]

Not dystopian.  Well, "American Reclamation Corporation" is a good joke.  I don't think the United States will be around forever, except as re-founded federations.

Excellent article, by the way.  One of the few out there, I'd say, even if it's still not talking about gameplay much.

[Buster's Uncle]

A new one at Gamespot: Beyond Earth: The Alpha Centauri Connection
-Interview with Greg Foertsch, Jerome Atherholt, and Mike Bazzell, who worked the art on SMACX and now BE.

[BlaneckW]

I like how all the screenshots were Alpha Centauri's and the question of whether it is it's spiritual successor is sidestepped.  But I'm glad he's getting something out of it.

[Buster's Uncle]

I did enjoy all the AC screenies for some reason...

I'm noticing, BTW, what a tremendous amount of love there is out there for SMACX among CIVillians previously unknown to me as fans since the BE news broke Saturday.  We're signing up a lot of new members who seem to be actual people, and it looks like AC is going to see a bit of a revival in the run-up to BE...

[BlaneckW]

It will see a revival after the release of BE when you get the people who are tired of games made in the vein of Angry Birds.

[BlaneckW]

Keep the articles coming, by the way.  I'd be glad to hear if they reveal a game which is complex in addition to "artsy."

[Geo]

What comes out most in the first two articles is how SMAC had a dark story already spliced in, but BE will let the player more or less decide how dark it's gonna be for his band of merry colonists.

[Buster's Uncle]

-Which, I daresay, means little or no story.

[Geo]

Then one needs to use his/her fantasy.

[Buster's Uncle]

Why aren't you using your imagination playing ciV, then?

[BlaneckW]

BE will let the player more or less decide how dark it's gonna be for his band of merry colonists.

I didn't get that at all.

[Buster's Uncle]

From AFP Relax News, a mainstream source, this turned up in the science news:  'Civilization: Beyond Earth' looks to the future

[Geo]

Why aren't you using your imagination playing ciV, then?

Why do you assume I don't?
I mean, a few games ago my Roman Empire even became autocratic!
While I should have been building up in Rome so all other cities would have shorter construction times!