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Lord of Ultima City Planning

November 20, 2011 by OliverGodfreed Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: , , , , ,

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For me, one of the most exciting aspects of Civilization is deciding where to build my next city. Since each city’s production is determined by the surrounding terrain, it becomes an interesting spacial challenge and I have spent hours weighing the benifits of a few spots. Well, here I get the defensive bonus from being on a hill, but I loose the food bonus for the cattle. Here I gain access to the coast, but lose the iron resource… Read on!

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Latest Strategy Game News

July 24, 2011 by OliverGodfreed Filed Under: News Tagged With: , , , ,

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Let’s catch up on recent online strategy game news, shall we? First, if you didn’t feel my Civ World review was informative enough, check out the latest interview with Sid Meier over at Mashable. Anyway, after writing the review yesterday, I was inspired to play some Civilization V again. To my surprise, there’s now a prominent ad for Civ World right on the start screen!

Check it Out!

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Civ World Review

July 23, 2011 by OliverGodfreed Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: , , , , ,

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Civ World is a gaming that I really wanted to like. Certainly Civilization has been one of my favourite series throughout the years, and even the latest version, Civ V, was brilliant. The main weakness of Civilization, in my opinion, has been the difficulty of multi-player. It still mostly relies on the players to organize themselves. By taking the game to Facebook, Civ World commited to fully embracing multi-player. Unfortunately, a lot of the original series’ appeal was lost in the process.

Read the full Review!

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Online Strategy Games

July 15, 2011 by OliverGodfreed Filed Under: News Tagged With: , , , ,

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As always, more going on in the world of online strategy games than I could possibly cover. Let’s take a quick look at Empires & Allies, Civ World, and new servers for OGame and Lord of Ultima.

Let’s go!

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Civilization World: Loading

July 11, 2011 by OliverGodfreed Filed Under: News Tagged With: ,

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Well, I’ve been trying to get on to the Civ World Beta, but with very little success! Perhaps the game is more popular than they thought, or maybe they just don’t like me :P This was my favourite error (out of three that I encountered: Have a Look!

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MMO Strategy Game News

May 26, 2011 by OliverGodfreed Filed Under: Facebook Games, News Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

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What’s the latest news for multiplayer strategy games? I’m glad you asked:

There’s more info about Civ World over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. They even have a video that shows the actual game! I’m getting excited.

Watch it now!

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Civ World Interview

May 17, 2011 by OliverGodfreed Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: ,

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Gamasutra recently posted an interview with Civ World’s associate producer Tiffany Nagano. Civ World, of course, is Civilization for Facebook. Now, there is a lot of wasted text; they spent half the article saying, and repeating “It’s Civilziation, but on Facebook!” There were a couple of nice insights though.

But wait, there’s more!

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Potpourri III

April 15, 2011 by OliverGodfreed Filed Under: News Tagged With: , , ,

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You know, maybe I shouldn’t have been so hasty to update, then I would be able to consolidate more… Oh well. First, as the image suggests, there’s a Steam sale on Civilization 5. If you haven’t spent days on this game already, now may be a good time to pick it up. How can you resist the hexes?

But Wait, There’s More!

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Out Sick

March 23, 2011 by OliverGodfreed Filed Under: Fun Tagged With: , ,

I woke up sprawled on the bathroom floor. I was covered in sweat, the back of my head hurt, and my forehead was bleeding. I had gotten so sick that I passed out, and apparently tore off a shelf and smacked my head on the way down. From there I went to the hospital and began an epic journey through the Ukranian medical system, full of bribes and five shots a day, all in the bum. Read More!

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Civ News 2011

January 11, 2011 by OliverGodfreed Filed Under: Facebook Games, News Tagged With: , ,

2011 greets us with some more news from Civilization. First, is that the Civilziation Facebook game, now called Civ World, is entering Closed Alpha today. If you’re interested in getting in on the Alpha, definitely check out the facebook page.

It will be really interesting to see how Civ World adpots the classic Civlization Turn-based strategy to the Facebook platform. I’m hoping, really hoping, that they don’t follow the formula of City of Wonder or City Ville, where you finish construction projects by having your friends click on them. Lord knows USSR would have won the Cold War if more of Stalin’s friends had signed up for Facebook. However, this seeems promising “in Civ World you will be joining your friends to form nations, which will compete with other player-nations to rule the world”. So at least we know that there’s actually competition. That’s a good sign.

You can also read more on Inside Social Games.

In other Civ-related news, Jon Shafer, lead designer for Civilization V, has left Firaxis. Gamasutra has an interview that’s worth a read.

Cheers,
Oliver

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