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Draginol's Articles for March, 2017
March 16, 2017 by Draginol
What kind of people are you? I think the biggest reason the Galactic Civilizations series has been so popular over the years has been because each game is your own epic story. In fact, the biggest request we get is to make the galaxy feel move alive.  With this Spring's mega expansion to Galactic Civilizations III, we hope to do just that. With Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade, we've been able to use the new, 64-bit, multicore game engine to create a much more lively...
March 8, 2017 by Draginol
Spying on Aliens Galactic Civilizations is a game that asks the question: What happens after we start colonizing other planets? For our purposes, we are going to assume that we will come into contact with alien civilizations. Alien civilizations will have their own histories, cultures and ideals that we can only fathom.  In Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade, you will be able to train your citizens to learn more about these other civilizations and, if necessary, do very bad th...
March 13, 2017 by Draginol
  ## ASHES OF THE SINGULARITY IS EVERYWHERE ## We just came back from the Game Developer's Conference.   It was a great week for the Nitrous engine (the underlying engine used in Ashes of the Singularity). Big News: AMD is bundling Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation with more and more CPUs   The hardware bundling keeps a steady stream of new players coming into our community. Moreover, the AMD Ryzen chips, which are 8-cores, really show off the power of th...
March 13, 2017 by Draginol
  ## ASHES OF THE SINGULARITY IS EVERYWHERE ## We just came back from the Game Developer's Conference.   It was a great week for the Nitrous engine (the underlying engine used in Ashes of the Singularity). Big News: AMD is bundling Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation with more and more CPUs   The hardware bundling keeps a steady stream of new players coming into our community. Moreover, the AMD Ryzen chips, which are 8-cores, really show off the power of th...
March 17, 2017 by Draginol
One of the things that I tend to fixate on is the shape of my territory.  Anyone else like this? In GalCiv III: Crusade, I re-wrote how the territory expands.  Crusade comes out this Spring.