conan_edw
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"Thas rite!"Based on Reisig’s flowery (sorry) words about seeds and gardening, you may think the game is all about species frolicking together in meadows and holding hands, but you’d be very wrong. “The game is about the fragility of civilization and that it takes a lot of care and dedication to upkeep a social and just society,” he says. “In my opinion all interesting science fiction works are inherently political, and I am always a bit confused when science fiction games try to be not.”
Mostly, Reisig wants this game to make players think about the real world. “I find it fascinating that just by switching the role of the player from commanding a faction in a traditional civilization strategy game to a god game simulation, automatically the perspective on the possible choices change,” he says. “If the player can influence every civilization in the game and it is optimal if as many of them survive as possible, why should they even wage wars and not rather try to prevent them? Of course, it would be great if our game would inspire players to think more about militarisation and resource consumption in the real world. The interesting thing is that the gardening aspect of the game steers the player automatically in this direction. I often see test players cursing when a species spirals into religious warfare, starts burning all their coal for their consumer industry, or if a civilization decides that it is a good idea to manufacture killer robots.”
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“One of my favourite science fiction books is Ursula Le Guin’s ‘Left Hand of Darkness’ and how it deals with an ambisexual society. I guess for me it is normal to assume that aliens would evolve different sexualities, gender identities, and social structures than humanity. If an alien society is portrayed with the same heteronormative values and focus on the gender binary as our society, I am always a bit puzzled. [Anomaly Games] love to explore queer sci-fi tropes and also like to imagine what kind of struggles and bias other societies need to overcome.”
The fact that the trailer seems to be showing gameplay footage, and that said gameplay footage seems to consist entirely of 1) random events and 2) picking one of 3 options from a list does not inspire confidence that this will be a fun game to play. I expect a very complex and mechanics driven CYOA, not an actual game. The fact that it is described as a god game also makes me think that it will not really have win or lose conditions, but rather just a sandbox for the computer to randomly generate events in.Don't really see how the game mechanics work yet, so I'll reserve judgement.
I also tried the demo and found it shit. You click around the screen for random events, then more random events happen. Occasionally you get a choice of 3 different outcomes, and those aren't very engaging either.Tried the demo and it's a solid concept what with managing multiple species' developments/coming into contact with others, but the problem is execution airs on the narrative CYOA style. With four factions I had in my game bringing up their events, galaxy camera constantly panning all over the place and general slow transitions between screens I can see this turning into a hair pulling affair after your galaxy is populated further. In a sense, this seems like a game you'll play once or twice to see most of the narrative events and call it a day because it lacks that tangible strategy bite. I get the feeling that wasn't their target audience to begin with, though.
Isn't that skin color like dominant? What are genetic rules for mixing hispanos, blacks, deep blacks, Chinese-like, and people who's skin max tan is nearly white?Time to nigger: Zero
Good job.
So, time travelling sjw fuckheads teaching the dinosaurs to be gay and tranny was the real reason they died out. The asteroid was just a cover up?looks gayFirst project post-Bloodlines 2 I think.
cdpr are fuckin trash manCDPR should have offered to develop this. But who knows, they might've still insisted on making it sandbox with too broad a scope. I still think either they or Rockstar are this franchise's only hopes.
Isn't that skin color like dominant? What are genetic rules for mixing hispanos, blacks, deep blacks, Chinese-like, and people who's skin max tan is nearly white?Time to nigger: Zero
Good job.
I think the easiest answer to the Fermi Paradox is readily apparent to anyone who has ever played a Space Strategery Game: Imagine such a game being played out for real, only one player gets a 500 turn head start.
is there still a game? Will the other players even have planets left to spawn on after 500 turns of the game?