RPS: So essentially a 4X game with more of an RPG heritage?There is a lot I want to say about this, but don't have the time currently. Check out and come back later when I have some more time to opine.
Wardell: Yes, it’s a 4X strategy game with a little Baldur’s Gate in it. The closest game I can think of is Master Of Magic, that’s been a bit of an inspiration for us. What we wanted to do with Elemental is to make it more of a personal experience. We really want you to be a presence within the game world, with your dynasty, with the way you design your units. When you go and zoom in and look at a unit you can see them all in the world, and they’ll all be a little different. And we want to move away from it being abstract. If I have a village with fifty people I can’t just click on it and ask for a legion of people. Those people have to come from somewhere. If spear-men come from a particular village, then there are less people left living there. It’s more personal in terms of you not just being this over-arching power, than other games in this genre.
"Sandbox"
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Let's talk about the term "sandbox game". We'll take a look at a couple
games I consider as true sandboxes and a couple t...
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