{"id":97,"date":"2008-06-20T09:33:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2013-10-29T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:50:23","slug":"sids-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/sids-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sid’s Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Civilization Revolution<\/em><\/a> is out! Sort of. Europeans have it, but – strangely enough – Americans still have to wait until July. CivRev<\/em> is often incorrectly described as the first console version<\/a> of Civ. <\/em>However, a more important (and actually true) first is less often mentioned – CivRev<\/em> is the first Civ<\/em> since the original to be designed and programmed directly by Sid. Every line of game and AI code (and probably quite a bit more) inside the game was written by Sid himself, for all three versions: 360, PS3, and<\/em> DS. CivRev<\/em> is a rare chance nowadays to see one of our industry’s first great designers still making games the old-fashioned way.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to the team at Firaxis; they did a great job of bringing the franchise to new platforms and, hopefully, to new audiences as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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