Cliff Harris of Positech Games(Gratuitous Space Battles) and of Show Me The Games! indie game site fame has done a short interview with Longbow Games regarding the new release of Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece which is an updated version of Hegemony: Philip of Macedon. It’s what I call a real time strategy grand strategy game(it’s truly grand strategy now that they have added diplomacy).
Rick Yorgasson explains ‘We originally planned for it to be a straight-forward expansion, with just a couple new campaigns, but we tend to be really bad at limiting our ambitions. After a while we added diplomacy, a sandbox mode, new tactical buffs, and rewrote the population system, in addition to improving some of the more overlooked aspects, like AI and ship combat. After a while it became clear that this was more than just an expansion, and that it was actually halfway to a true sequel.’
You can read the full interview here. It’s an eye opening interview as they delve into topics like ancient Greece popularity(or lack thereof) in strategy games and the commercial success of Hegemony. If you have not tried Hegemony, go here and download the demo. I’ll have a review of Hegemony Gold in the near future. Here's an advance preview of my review…it’s good!
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