Designing Games In A Vacuum, Part 1: Terrain & Positionality
In developing the space-based RTS game AI War: Fleet Command, I encountered an unexpected design challenge: namely, I hadn’t anticipated the issues that would be caused by setting the game in space. I’ve played space-based games like Homeworld (which I didn’t care for) and Descent: Freespace (which I loved), among many others — all sorts…
