10.Oct.2023
Misja van Laatum (Mail)
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Pixelart: Designs for unreleased game "Conflict
Misja van Laatum had recently reported in a Mastodon article that he and a friend played a lot of Empire: Wargame Of The Century in the 90s and had then made the "half-hearted plan" to make it "bigger and better". Unfortunately, nothing came of that plan. Misja, however, still owns some of the graphics he had already started, which he released to us for publication upon request: Combat backgrounds, user interface designs, a title logo and some Sculpt-3D images for an intro sequence.
Misja van Laatum explains further to us: "The game we were planning was to be called Conflict, and we had ambitious plans: terrain of different heights (hence the bunch of tiny tile graphics), more types of units than in Empire, a zoomed in view when attacking cities (the larger tiles) allowing you to target individual infrastructure, etc. The problem was that I'm not a great programmer (my skillset was limited to Blitzbasic and AMOS) and I didn't really know anyone that could, at that time... but it might be fun to one day pick this up now that I have a bit more experience."
In this respect, there is hope that the "half-hearted plan" will eventually become reality.
(dr)
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