Hi everyone. I wanted to give people a general update on Gem Wizards Tactics: precisely what it is, in some detail, because two months from today it will become available on Steam (wishlist it now!). I’ve written about it before – use the Gem Wizards Tactics tag to find everything I’ve written on it – […]
Gem Wizards Tactics launches in 2 months Read More »
I’ve talked a little bit before about the Business Demons, who are the first completed faction in my upcoming turn based tactical war game, Gem Wizards Tactics. They have two special units: the Bulldozer, and the Garg-Oil. I’ve just recently finished up a bunch of the mechanics for the Garg-Oil so I wanted to write
Gem Wizards Tactics: The Garg-oil and the Bulldozer Read More »
Episode 2 of my new series is up! Check it out!
How to do Fog of War properly (or, RESPECTING the Information Horizon) Read More »
I’ve always been a turn-based tactical wargame fan, since I discovered they existed. I was super into X-Com (particularly the 1995 version), the Advance Wars games, Jagged Alliance, SRPGs like Final Fantasy Tactics, Western-style RPGs with tactical combat such as Temple of Elemental Evil or Fallout 1 or 2, or even 4X games that had
Solving some major problems in turn-based tactical wargames Read More »
Today I interviewed James Lantz, game designer at Klei. Among numerous other games, he was for me most notably a designer on Invisible Inc., a really interesting X-Com-ish tactical strategy game, and Mercury, a small indie Rogue-like game that really boiled down how Rogue-likes really work in the smartest way I’ve ever seen. (By the
Interview with James Lantz, designer of Invisible, Inc. Read More »
I don’t mean “bar” as in “pub”, I mean it as in like a resource bar. In this episode, I talk about Rogue-like games in detail, why it isn’t really a genre, and what the future of these games are. What can we do with single-player strategy games? Must they all be “managing highly random
CGD Podcast Episode 17: Rogue-likes and Other “Bar Games” Read More »
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