Game Idea For Shrapnel

[Atilla the Pun]

Originally posted by Richard:
BTW how serious are these Civilization folks? This is a hobby project right?

Serious? Yeah, I think they're pretty serious. The whole thing seems like an ad hoc project to me, but their "model supervisors" (I forget what they call them) stay pretty constant. They have 2 or three coders and they make slow but steady progress. They're planning to release it as shareware with profits going to to the developers in keeping with how much they input to the project. I'm (fearfully) watching for hurt feelings and possibly worse when it gets released, but the project looks waaaay cool. I don't even understand their econ model and I've played the Demo 6 several times. Of course there may be issues with the economic model, it's supposed to function at three levels, Empire wide, Province, and Square (or Tile, I forget).

Anyway, I digressed (what are the odds of THAT happening, do ya think? ), if you're thinking about offering to publish for them watch them for a bit. I like what I've seen so far.

AtP

[ May 31, 2002, 05:59: Message edited by: Atilla the Pun ]