6th December 2004, 12:23 AM
I bet they sold it to Firaxis...
And he hasn't really been the lead designer on a game like this in a while now. Oh, he's done wargames (Gettysburg!), games with some strategy elements (Pirates!), etc, but for Civ... he hasn't been the actual lead designer on a Civ-style game since the first one. Now, he's helped a lot obviously with II, III, AC... but he wasn't the lead designer.
As for 3d, I'm mixed. I guess it gives better graphics, but you get somewhat less detail and in Civ being able to zoom and rotate the camera is quite unnecessary... it's a flashy thing I guess to do but I think 2d would work just as well for gameplay for this kind of game.
And he hasn't really been the lead designer on a game like this in a while now. Oh, he's done wargames (Gettysburg!), games with some strategy elements (Pirates!), etc, but for Civ... he hasn't been the actual lead designer on a Civ-style game since the first one. Now, he's helped a lot obviously with II, III, AC... but he wasn't the lead designer.
As for 3d, I'm mixed. I guess it gives better graphics, but you get somewhat less detail and in Civ being able to zoom and rotate the camera is quite unnecessary... it's a flashy thing I guess to do but I think 2d would work just as well for gameplay for this kind of game.