Medieval History
How did you get into video game creation?
My first game was a side scrolling arcade game called Elf ? back in 1985 ? in the days when the whole game could be made in 3 months by 2 people ! I have programmed and designed many genres of games but soon settled on strategy games as the area the really grabbed me. In the 90s I worked as a freelance designer/coder on several strategy games such as the Caesar (think SimCity in Rome!), in 1999 I set up Firefly with Eric Ouellette and 2 ½ years later launched what is now our obsession, ?Stronghold?.
Click here to read the full interview from Medievalists.net
- First Trailer Released For Crusader Kings Ii
Paradox Interactive has released the first in a series of seven live-action trailers for medieval strategy / RPG Crusader Kings II. The video features a ?unique? attempt to storm a medieval castle ;) The game, set between 1066 and the 15th century, allows...
- You've Read 'the Canterbury Tales.' Prepare To Play The Board Game
A dozen years ago, Alf Seegert was into playing solo video games, and his wife-to-be was feeling left out. "Can't we play something together?" she asked Mr. Seegert, who works today as an assistant professor/lecturer in the University of Utah's...
- Checkmate! Medieval People At Play ? Manuscript Exhibition Examines Aspects Of Play In Medieval Society
We are all familiar with praying monks, but playing monks? A Book of Hours from Flanders finds them deep in a game of ?Blind Man?s Bluff,? while on the opposite page peasant boys enjoy a rigorous game of hockey. Such delightful images of play are unexpectedly...
- Cfp: Memo Sessions For 2010 Kzoo Congress
The 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies (2010) MEMO is soliciting proposals for two sessions to take place at the 45th (2010) International Congress on Medieval Studies. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a completed Participant...
- Memo At K'zoo
Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) is once again please to be represented at the Medieval Institute's International Congress on Medieval Studies(Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI). For the 2009 Congress, we are looking to...
Medieval History
Who says history can?t be fun?! Medievalists.net chats with Simon Bradbury about the medieval gaming world of Stronghold III
How did you get into video game creation?
My first game was a side scrolling arcade game called Elf ? back in 1985 ? in the days when the whole game could be made in 3 months by 2 people ! I have programmed and designed many genres of games but soon settled on strategy games as the area the really grabbed me. In the 90s I worked as a freelance designer/coder on several strategy games such as the Caesar (think SimCity in Rome!), in 1999 I set up Firefly with Eric Ouellette and 2 ½ years later launched what is now our obsession, ?Stronghold?.
Click here to read the full interview from Medievalists.net
- First Trailer Released For Crusader Kings Ii
Paradox Interactive has released the first in a series of seven live-action trailers for medieval strategy / RPG Crusader Kings II. The video features a ?unique? attempt to storm a medieval castle ;) The game, set between 1066 and the 15th century, allows...
- You've Read 'the Canterbury Tales.' Prepare To Play The Board Game
A dozen years ago, Alf Seegert was into playing solo video games, and his wife-to-be was feeling left out. "Can't we play something together?" she asked Mr. Seegert, who works today as an assistant professor/lecturer in the University of Utah's...
- Checkmate! Medieval People At Play ? Manuscript Exhibition Examines Aspects Of Play In Medieval Society
We are all familiar with praying monks, but playing monks? A Book of Hours from Flanders finds them deep in a game of ?Blind Man?s Bluff,? while on the opposite page peasant boys enjoy a rigorous game of hockey. Such delightful images of play are unexpectedly...
- Cfp: Memo Sessions For 2010 Kzoo Congress
The 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies (2010) MEMO is soliciting proposals for two sessions to take place at the 45th (2010) International Congress on Medieval Studies. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a completed Participant...
- Memo At K'zoo
Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) is once again please to be represented at the Medieval Institute's International Congress on Medieval Studies(Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI). For the 2009 Congress, we are looking to...