This week the team up of Stardock and Dallas based BonusXP was announced! We’re all very excited to work together on a new game that we think gamers are going to really like.
Little by little the pieces of our long-term strategy get announced. Here’s a recap of what’s been going on:
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2015
The nature of the team ups
From a game development point of view, the development, art, sound, music and design teams that were involved in Civilization, Civilization III, Civilization IV, Civilization V, Age of Empires series, Galactic Civilizations series, Sins of a Solar Empire series and more are all able to collaborate, support each other on everything from code review, design suggestions, gameplay feedback, art direction, etc.
The next few years are going to be an amazing time to be a gamer!
You are a genius. I want to buy all this stuff.
While I was reading this, I thought you were making a mmo or new phone services. New games are better though. :3
DARCA.
Holy hell, cool.
That's the understatement of the year!!! Good job getting this all together Brad.
Probably not Protoplazm, considering Sins is not a 4x game.
I might be dumb, but what does "4x 4x" mean? Also, does "IP" mean something different from "Intellectual Property"?
Anyway, sounds like an exciting schedule to follow - looking forward to what comes out on the other end.
-tid242
I'm happy that Stardock and several other devs i like have or are in the process of achieving escape velocity. Feels like we've just entered a golden era in gaming!
I am liking this strategy.
Anyone else find it ironic that the world's best strategy game makers are strategically aligning themselves to work with each other?
Seems like a strategic move.
When you're #1 in the power rank always get an alliance with #2. Then... win!
IP means SD Intellectual Property. What he means is that they're releasing a game based on some new world that they haven't talked about yet. So not associated with Elemental, GalCiv, StarCon, etc. It's some new IP we haven't heard about yet.
Looking forward to all this!
All wonderful. Except one thing. RTS? Could you modify this RTS to have easily accessible paused features like in DW. Many of us don't have really fast eye-hand-mouse-joystick reaction times. Turn based mode? Please.
No mention of E2015?
(I hope enough people here will understand this.)
Meanwhile at Stardock:
Please tell me it's not a 4x game for the phone... bonusXP has only made phone games... there is a huge difference between the two. Although the phone market is huge and you'd be foolish not to at least try to gain some of that market. But i'd rather see new PC games. i don't see the point in playing games on the phone when i have some many other electronics that are far better at gaming.
In Stardock's latest customer report, Brad said he didn't view mobile as a viable market yet. I don't have the link on hand, but it's a worthwhile read.
Is there an ULTIMATE ELITE FOUNDER thing we can buy for like $500 and we get everything you ever make from now on? SOLD!!!
PC game.
Star Control...
I so loved those games. Thank you Stardock for reviving this IP. Can't wait to see what you can do with it.
Can't wait to see the new RTS you are working on.
Can't wait for any of this...
Crap... I'm drooling on my keyboard.
So its straight RTS. I could hope.
I think that is this one:
Remember, E2015 hasn't been officially announced yet.
Definitely. And the "4X 4X" is a typo I think
New RTS! Yeah! I know that games like Majesty have been named RTS by their creators though that's false since RTS is WarCraft, StarCraft, Company of Heroes and such.
I hope it will be made with competitive 1v1 in mind but I doubt it.
4x 4x ?? 4 x 4 = 16x! The worlds first 16x!!
Two new gameannouncements + two new gamestudios = just as expected
From a game development point of view, the development, art, sound, music and design teams that were involved in Civilization, Civilization III, Civilization IV, Civilization V, Age of Empires series, Galactic Civilizations series, Sins of a Solar Empire series and more are all able to collaborate, support each other on everything from code review, design suggestions, gameplay feedback, art direction, etc. The next few years are going to be an amazing time to be a gamer!
Don't know if this has ever happened before in the industry. Will be interesting to see if such collaboration will work out.
It could just be the most meta 4X ever conceived...like a 4X inside of a 4X.
Keanu: Woah...
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