TGDRT #14 – Civ with Soren Johnson

Episode #14 is now up!

This week Jon and Dirk are joined by Soren Johnson, best known as the designer of Civilization IV. The gang discusses the 4X genre with a particular focus on the Civilization series. They dig into what makes this category of games special, what problems they have yet to solve and what opportunities exist with multiplayer and on mobile platforms.

I’d been looking forward to recording this episode for a while, and it ended up even better than I had hoped! Soren and I really dig into what makes Civ tick along with some of the problems afflicting both it and the 4X genre generally.

Soren even shares what he would do if he were in charge of Civ 6 - so now you have to listen!

- Jon

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by Jon Shafer on February 14, 2013 • Permalink

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Posted by Jon Shafer on February 14, 2013

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@liet @DanOppenheim Very cool! Definitely some interesting ones out there I haven't heard of. I wish there was an easier way to find them. 9 hours ago

@pabosher Thanks! Will definitely check those out. The rotation was getting a bit light, so it's good timing. 9 hours ago

@TroyGoodfellow @dknemeyer It was a great battle. Love that game. Not a fan of dice, but you still need a good strategy to win (usually). 9 hours ago

@TroyGoodfellow @dknemeyer Had to roll two blue on three dice in the last battle. Without that, Troy would have beat me on the next turn. 9 hours ago

@TroyGoodfellow @dknemeyer It was REALLY close, but Troy left a couple units exposed that I could gang up on and get lucky rolls against. 9 hours ago

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