[simonh]

Ordered. Funnily enough I recently came across this GDC presentation by Sid and Bruce Shelley on the development of the original Civilization[0]. Highly recommended.

The influence of Empire as one of the inspirations of the game was obvious to anyone familiar with it. If you're interested there's an excellent updated implementation of Empire on the App Store[1]. I'd love to be able to get a version of Civ 2 on mobile. It's still by far my favourite iteration of Civ. Or Pirates!

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ-auWfJTts

[1]https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mother-of-all-battles/id425160...

[tomashertus]

It's amazing to see them sharing the stage and talking about their first achievement with such dignity and depth.

It's even more mind-blowing when you realize that Shelley went ahead and started Ensemble Studios[1] that created the Age of Empires franchise which is still alive today[2]. And Civilization is today still under development and even more successful than ever before.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_Studios

2. https://www.ageofempires.com/games/age-of-empires-iv/

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[vanderZwan]

I bought The Settlers 7 purely because I knew Bruce Shelley worked on it. It was a nice game, interesting take on the "casual economic sim" genre

[n3k5]

People who liked these tips might also like:

Bruce Shelley was on Soren Johnson's podcast Designer Notes (ep. 9, 2015). Sid Meier is in episodes 23—25 (2016).

[acheron]

And Brian Reynolds did two episodes as well. All recommended if those names are interesting to you.

[gbraad]

This for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.windowsgam... or Windows: http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/mother.html ?

[Rebelgecko]

As long as you're referring to the original version of Pirates, it works great on phones in an emulator (I've used the NES version)