Posts Tagged ‘Aphelion Phoenix Rising’

Interview with Brad Ottoson | Aphelion: Phoenix Rising main Developer

Monday, November 16th, 2009
Aphelion: Phoenix Rising

In September 26th I wrote a post about a new space strategy game in the making called Aphelion: Phoenix Rising. You can read the post here: Aphelion Phoenix Rising: A new 4x Space Strategy Game under Development.

By then Brad Ottoson (main developer) told me that“[Aphelion] won’t be out for a few years still but we have a lot of it done”. Having liked what I saw and after having a nice chat with Brad I decided to invite Brad for an interview which he kindly accepted. Here is the interview we did. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

Aphelion Phoenix Rising: A new 4x Space Strategy Game under Development

Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Aphelion Colony Building Screen

Aphelion: Phoenix Rising is a new 4x space strategy game currently being developed by the Wyvern Studios a game development company founded by Brad Ottoson and Jared O’Connor.

I became in contact with Brad Ottoson some days ago when we were discussing my blog article: Master of Orion 2: The Formula behind the Success. We briefly discussed about Aphelion: Phoenix Rising, a new 4x space strategy game that is being developed by Brad and Jared. Brad told me that “[Aphelion] is inspired by various 4x space strategy games like MOO2 and Birth of the Federation”. Saying that I immediately decided to investigate the game progress and write an article about it. Continue reading...