Posts Tagged ‘Jon Shafer’

Interview with Conifer Games on At the Gates By Keith Turner on August 27th, 2013 at 12:36 pm Earlier this year, developer Conifer Games was able to successfully kickstart a new strategy title called At the Gates. This game caught my eye because of its unique features. I had questions though. Here's our interview with designer Jon Shafer. Category: Interviews 3 comments

Soren Johnson joins Stardock, Lots of Titles in PreProduction By Adam Solo on March 1st, 2013 at 7:08 pm Brad Wardell, Stardock CEO, announced that they hired Soren Johnson (Sid Meier's Civilization 4 lead designer) to oversee the design of all their games. Category: News & Announcements 30 comments

Jon Shafer’s Civ5 Lessons Learned, Mea Culpa & At the Gates By Adam Solo on February 14th, 2013 at 11:39 am Jon Shafer succeeded on Kickstarter with At the Gates and in a recent Kickstarter update he talks about Civ5's design,lessons learned and his new vision for At the Gates. Category: Game Design, News & Announcements 40 comments

Civ5 Designer Jon Shafer on Kickstarter for 4X At the Gates By Adam Solo on February 6th, 2013 at 12:54 pm Jon Shafer is on Kickstarter for At the Gates, a historical turn-based 4X strategy game. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 37 comments

Jon Shafer leaves Firaxis and joins Stardock to work on Elemental War of Magic By Adam Solo on January 5th, 2011 at 3:19 pm Jon Shafer, the lead designer and principal programmer of Civilization 5, the last Civ game released by Firaxis Games in September 2010, announced in December 2010 that he was leaving Firaxis (where he was employed for 5 years). The reasons for his departure were not made public and so the Civ5 fanbase discussed (speculated) intensely in the CivFanatics’s site forums which could have been the reasons for his departure. Category: News & Announcements 0 comments