http://apolyton.net Daily news from the Civ world en-us 180 Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Daniel Quick. All rights reserved dan@apolyton.net (Daniel Quick) locutus@apolyton.net (Wouter Snijders) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:43:15 -0500 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:43:15 -0500 http://boa.apolyton.net/apolyton-civ4-300.jpg http://apolyton.net http://apolyton.net/misc Last month, the call went out to nominate PolyCast (PC) for the 2009 Podcast Awards short lists in both the "Best Produced" and "Gaming" categories. Saturday 14th, the Top 10 nominees in these and all 22 categories were announced.... (16 November 2009, 03:43) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:43:15 -0500 http://apolyton.net/news/item/15741/ http://apolyton.net/misc Hello Civ Fans! I wanted to let you know we’ll soon be looking for beta testers to help us develop a unique new way to play Civilization. Ever since we finished Civilization® Revolution™ last year, I’ve been looking at ways of expanding the Civ gameplay experience to include solo, competitive and cooperative play to take advantage of the uniqueness of social networks. We’re calling this project Civilization® Network™ and the full g... (21 October 2009, 11:10) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:10:32 -0500 http://apolyton.net/news/item/15740/ http://apolyton.net/misc PolyCast, the well known PodCast production of Daniel `DanQ` Quick, may be nominated once again for the Podcast Awards! Your nomination is needed to help PolyCast to gain a top-10 nomination in the "Best Produced" and "Gaming" categories. For more information please consult This Thread... (5 October 2009, 15:41) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:41:49 -0500 http://apolyton.net/news/item/15739/ http://apolyton.net/misc Firaxis is very busy helping the community to get a game career started lately! Today another article was posted in the "Start a gaming career" series. This time Producer Barry Caudill tells about his job. The producer "serves as the cheerleader for the team" he says. Two new Associate Producers, Michelle Menard and David McDonough, tell about how "t... (5 October 2009, 15:36) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:36:52 -0500 http://apolyton.net/news/item/15738/ http://apolyton.net/civ4 Steve Ogden, lead artist of Civilization IV, talks about some of his favourite civ4 artwork in a new article in Firaxis "Behind the scenes" series. "It just said "Civ" to me – building something awesome that was going to last for ages." Ogden says about an image in the Pyramids wonder movie. Read more about Ogden`s favourite art right here... (2 October 2009, 16:30) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:30:48 -0500 http://apolyton.net/news/item/15737/ http://apolyton.net/misc Scott Wittbecker, Quality Assurance Manager at Firaxis, talks about play-testing of games. "QA is a critical component of the game development cycle since there’s no way that the programming and art teams can verify every aspect of the game prior to release." Wittbecker says. If you want to learn more about play testing or seek a way to start career in the gaming industry, Firaxis` career articles may help you to get `a foot in the ... (2 October 2009, 16:25) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:25:19 -0500 http://apolyton.net/news/item/15736/