{"id":11083,"date":"2014-05-29T09:56:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=11083"},"modified":"2014-05-29T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T14:05:23","slug":"stellar-indie-venture-galactic-inheritors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/stellar-indie-venture-galactic-inheritors\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellar Indie Venture: Galactic Inheritors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During the recent resurgence of the 4X genre is not uncommon for more indie developers to begin working on their own projects and bring their own take on the genre. The latest of these is Crispon Games, founded by Chris King a veteran of the Grand Strategy genre, with their announcement of Galactic Inheritors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chris King is a game designer, which up to recently, worked for Paradox Development Studio. He worked on many of their games, such as Victoria II and March of the Eagles. Fortunately for those that wish to know more about his background and why he created Crispon Games, or why he decided to make a space 4X strategy game, you are in luck as we\u2019ve managed to ask him a few questions:<\/p>\n

Crispon Games is a two man studio, myself and Pontus \u00c5berg. Prior to this I worked for 7 years at Paradox Development Studio and although it was a fantastic place to work, I felt now was the time to go out and give working for myself a go. Pontus is another former Paradox Developer who moved on to work in commercial software development but decided now was a good time to return to game development. Having worked so many years on historical games I wanted to do something very different. Science Fiction was the genre we picked; the setting gives you a lot of freedom as you can pick and choose what to use. 4X was just a game idea Pontus and I talked about a lot at the pub, we finally reached the point where we felt we are going to go for this and make the game we always talked about. -Chris King (Crispon Games)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About Galactic Inheritors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Galactic Inheritors is a space 4X game; however, it will focus on the inevitable conflict that will lead to only one race being able to survive in the end. The bits of lore that have been revealed speak of the existence of the ancient mass driver weapons which may be the explanation for such events as the extinction of the dinosaurs here on Earth and the reason why most races seem to have the same level of technological development.<\/p>\n

One theme that comes up often in the developer diaries is maintaining immersion, which seems to have a key role in many of the design decisions. I decided to ask what their inspiration was and how crucial was immersion to the development of the game:<\/p>\n

Science fiction is one of my favourite genres, I couldn’t point to one author or book that really inspired me, but they all add up. The thing we really wanted to do was to try and create a universe. So I spent a fair amount of my time trawling through the internet to reading about current scientific knowledge and theories and the kinds of future idea scientists are researching. I did read Paul Krugman’s paper on the theory of interstellar trade but decided not to include a trade system in the game. I always felt that science was a vital component in a science fiction game, as it is so essential to game immersion. So exploration is a staple of these games, and we changed what exactly you found when you explored to add that little bit to the game experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Due to the back lore, this means the game will only have one road to victory: conquest. Crispon Games has considered having a possible technological victory based on unlocking the secrets of the ancient mass drivers, but there is no promise that this will be implemented.<\/p>\n

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The game\u2019s focus seems to be the management of your empire from the perspective of the one in charge. The game will focus more on the high level decisions than on the micromanagement of one\u2019s assets. Elements of gameplay that have been defined at this moment are:<\/p>\n

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