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By: Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Best In The World At Kate Bush » Blog Archive » Making of: Soren Johnson on Civ 4

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:22:32 +0000

[...] could be roughly divided into two parts. The bits which were not about Civ4 and not about Spore. We’ve published these in January, where we talked about the future of the PC being Punk Rock. The second half were the bits about [...]

By: Darren T.

Darren T. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:50:00 +0000

Good interview. I especially appreciate how many specific games are mentioned (mostly by Soren) as examples of interesting contemporary design innovation.

So much of Civilization 4′s improvements over its predecessors seemed to start with what it took away and radically rethought about past versions of the game.

People usually talk about mainstream and online/indie games as though the two worlds are mutually exclusive, but I think it’s designers like Soren who have started to show us how we can take classic designs and actually make them truly better by rethinking our prejudices and focusing on what is truly fun and fulfilling.

By: Inflatable Moron

Inflatable Moron — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:00:44 +0000

Very interesting article, Im looking forward to reading the AI related talk. However i think someone needs to lend Soren a copy of this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rip-Up-Start-Again-1978-1984/dp/057121570X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200517152&sr=1-1

Or alternatively just link him to the wikipedia entry for “post punk”

By: Krupo

Krupo — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:36:15 +0000

I haven’t touch Civ 4 in months. Seeing that screenshot, though, made me immediately realize I want to go back into playing it.

SMAC 2 would be awesome.

By: Rawdge

Rawdge — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:49:47 +0000

I think he’s right. The gaming industry tends to avoid great ideas and concepts if they happened to be poorly implemented in the past. There are a number of awesome ideas, designs, concepts, etc., that wound up suffering not necessarily due to any fault of their own. It may have been poor marketing, or certain other parts of the game being buggy or whatever that caused a game to fail, or otherwise not do very well, yet even if it had a really kickass core design, the entire concept gets abandoned and avoided like some pariah. It’s a damn shame, as there is a lot out there that I know I’d personally like to see expanded upon, or simply re-done.

By: terry

terry — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:56:33 +0000

Fascinating reading – I thought I was doing something wrong when I continually got attacked by Tokugawa :( Fortunately a few bananas or an Elvis record now and then pacified him.

Shame on you for not asking about Alpha Centauri 2 :O

By: Kast

Kast — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:58:33 +0000

Babs – Oh, nuke that sunnovabitch Ghandi and get that orange jumpsuit on already XD

By: Babs

Babs — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:52:35 +0000

Pod: It depends on the difficulty level, and what you mean by cheating. At Noble (medium essentially) level you and the AI play more-or-less the same game and above that AI gets production, research and some other bonuses. I wouldn’t say the AI ‘cheats’ though, it’s more like a golf handicap :)

Civ4 is there reason I still haven’t played Portal. Damn you Soren!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:30:16 +0000

I never really noticed the Civ3 AI cheating. I do remember once though, when I played one of (I think the first) C&C games’ single player campaigns as a side that had flame troopers. Later on in the game I discovered that the enemy AI was also producing flame troopers despite it not being a class they were supposed to be allowed. I wasn’t sure if this was deliberate or just a bug but it was kind of annoying.

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:10:13 +0000

; Excellent interview, looking forward to the ‘rest of the story’ and catching up on his thoughts on AI and the Mod scene.