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We had an extensive pre-alpha test period for Civ 4 that started 18 months before shipping getting player feedback that early made a huge difference in the quality of the product. What's one valuable gameplay or development lesson that you brought to Offworld from your Civilization days?

The Hacker Array can also ruin a rival's profits by triggering an artificial surplus that drives down the price of their most profitable resource.

Games like offworld trading company upgrade#

Indeed, buying into another player early is a bit like rushing in a traditional RTS while buying up one's own stock is turtling and skipping stocks to upgrade one's HQ is booming.Īlso, the black market provides a lot of tools for slowing down opponents, such as mutinies (steal a building), dynamite (destroy a building), EMPs (freeze nearby buildings), Pirates (steal from shipping lanes), and so on. Players exterminate each other in Offworld by buying them out on the stock market. What does extermination look like in Offworld? There's exploration, expansion, and exploitation. Offworld, on the surface, has most of the elements of a 4X strategy game. Eventually, we stripped much of this away to get to our current game where each player has his own HQ and only places building with no unit micromanagement.

Also, the game had more of a traditional real-time strategy feel in that the player controlled individual units, whether scouts or engineers or even pirates. Basically, the game originally felt a lot more like Railroad Tycoon set on Mars, in that the player transported resources to different neutral colonies and spent a lot of time micromanaging her shipping lanes, which you managed by hand. I go into detail on how the concept changed extensively in the game's Designer Notes, which are published on my blog. How has the game concept changed since you first came up with the idea? I've always wanted to make a strategy game that focuses on economics instead of war, partially from the games I enjoyed as a kid, such as Railroad Tycoon and SimCity, and partially because there simply haven't been any good competitive economic video games since M.U.L.E.-which is a long time ago! When did you first get the spark of an idea to make this game? Soren's own anticipation is palpable in his words, with the official launch of Offworld on April 28 being so near. And even how Offworld Trading Company started off as something more like Railroad Tycoon, but ended up in far less charted territory. You can see in his answers the long train of thought that informs his design process. We chatted with Soren Johnson, asking questions about his latest endeavor. It's a real-time strategy game, but it's not quite like any RTS you've played before: It's an economic RTS. The first game from Mohawk Studios (which he opened in 2013) is Offworld Trading Company. Soren Johnson built the entire AI for both Civ III and IV, so he knows a thing or two about programming from the ground up. Have you played Civilization III? How about Civilization IV? Perhaps you even got sucked into Spore like many of us did, crafting unique creatures, vehicles, and buildings for days on end. You may be one of the millions of gamers already familiar with Soren Johnson's work.