{"id":276,"date":"2010-09-17T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T19:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2024-11-04T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:31:30","slug":"media-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/media-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Media Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, I appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/3ma\/episodes\/modding\">Three Moves Ahead Episode 76<\/a> podcast on modding strategy games, along with Derek &#8220;Kael&#8221; Paxton of <em>Fall from Heaven<\/em> fame. I need to do something about my terrible audio quality (and my overuse of the word &#8220;um&#8221;), but it&#8217;s always a blast to be on Troy&#8217;s show. Hopefully, I&#8217;ll be back sometime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, I also gave a Google Tech Talk on AI and <em>Civilization<\/em>, examining the difference between &#8220;good&#8221; and &#8220;fun&#8221; AI and how that affected the development of <em>Civ4<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IJcuQQ1eWWI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, a user on YouTube named Kaszman posted a extensive and detailed documentary on the prototyping of <em>Civ4<\/em>. This piece is a much more polished version of the talk that Dorian Newcomb (<em>Civ4<\/em>&#8216;s lead animator) and I gave at GDC 2006, which was a bit of an A\/V disaster &#8211; the projector would only work at the wrong resolution,&nbsp;some of the demos didn&#8217;t work when off the network, and&nbsp;even my cell phone went off. Thus, we were happy to get another shot at it, and the video turned out quite well. During development, I saved a version of <em>Civ4<\/em> every couple months with a eye towards using them to show how the game grew over its two-and-a-half years of development. I got a chance to show them off here; for people curious to see how the sausages get made, these videos are a great place to start:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QTM7TT7bOUk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I appeared on Three Moves Ahead Episode 76 podcast on modding strategy games, along with Derek &#8220;Kael&#8221; Paxton of Fall from Heaven fame. 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