Firaxis Tour Photo Gallery (Part 1/2)

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During Apolycon '06 in Timonium, Maryland, <A HREF="http://apolyton.net/about/10/129/">Markos Giannopoulos</A> and <A HREF="http://apolyton.net/about/10/129/">Daniel Quick</A> were lucky enough to be allowed to go on a tour of the Firaxis studio. Otherwise closed to participants due to several titles being in a near-release state, Dan and Markos were allowed to tour certain parts of the studio and see into the inner workings of the Civ developer.

Here are some of the pictures from that event!

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<table cellspacing=0 border=0 width=300 style="border: 1px solid gray;margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 60px;"></tr><tr><td style="padding-left: 4px;"><font size=1 color=gray></td><td align=right><font size=1><A style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/danq_markg(firaxis_tour).jpg><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/essenceserver/thumb.php?x=320&y=240&i=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/danq_markg(firaxis_tour).jpg style="padding-left: 4px;"><font size=1 color=gray></td><td align=right><font size=1><A style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/danq_markg(firaxis_tour).jpg><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/upload/view/830_full.gif title="click to enlarge" align=right></a><font size=1 color=gray>DanQ and MarkG at the Firaxis headquarters</td></tr></table>
<table cellspacing=0 border=0 width=300 style="border: 1px solid gray;margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 60px;"></tr><tr><td style="padding-left: 4px;"><font size=1 color=gray></td><td align=right><font size=1><A style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/danq_dshirk_markg(firaxis_tour).jpg><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/essenceserver/thumb.php?x=320&y=240&i=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/danq_dshirk_markg(firaxis_tour).jpg style="padding-left: 4px;"><font size=1 color=gray></td><td align=right><font size=1><A style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/danq_dshirk_markg(firaxis_tour).jpg><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/upload/view/830_full.gif title="click to enlarge" align=right></a><font size=1 color=gray>DanQ and MarkG with tour director Dennis Shirk</td></tr></table>
<table cellspacing=0 border=0 width=300 style="border: 1px solid gray;margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 60px;"></tr><tr><td style="padding-left: 4px;"><font size=1 color=gray></td><td align=right><font size=1><A style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/employee_office(firaxis_tour).jpg ><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/essenceserver/thumb.php?x=320&y=240&i=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/employee_office(firaxis_tour).jpg color=gray></td><td align=right><font size=1><A style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/employee_office(firaxis_tour).jpg ><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/upload/view/830_full.gif title="click to enlarge" align=right></a><font size=1 color=gray>An unnamed Firaxian's office</td></tr></table>
<table cellspacing=0 border=0 width=300 style="border: 1px solid gray;margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 60px;"></tr><tr><td style="padding-left: 4px;"><font size=1 color=gray></td><td align=right><font size=1><A style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/lunch_room(firaxis_tour).jpg ><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/essenceserver/thumb.php?x=320&y=240&i=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/lunch_room(firaxis_tour).jpg color=gray></td><td align=right><font size=1><A style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/lunch_room(firaxis_tour).jpg ><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/upload/view/830_full.gif title="click to enlarge" align=right></a><font size=1 color=gray>The Firaxis lunch room</td></tr></table>
<table cellspacing=0 border=0 width=300 style="border: 1px solid gray;margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 60px;"></tr><tr><td style="padding-left: 4px;"><font size=1 color=gray></td><td align=right><font size=1><A style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/smac_logo-concepts2(firaxis_tour).jpg ><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/essenceserver/thumb.php?x=320&y=240&i=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/smac_logo-concepts2(firaxis_tour).jpg color=gray></td><td align=right><font size=1><A style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/smac_logo-concepts2(firaxis_tour).jpg ><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/upload/view/830_full.gif title="click to enlarge" align=right></a><font size=1 color=gray>Several SMAC concept logos</td></tr></table>
<table cellspacing=0 border=0 width=300 style="border: 1px solid gray;margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 60px;"></tr><tr><td style="padding-left: 4px;"><font size=1 color=gray></td><td align=right><font size=1><A style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/ultimate_civ2-poster(firaxis_tour).jpg ><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/essenceserver/thumb.php?x=320&y=240&i=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/ultimate_civ2-poster(firaxis_tour).jpg style="border: 0px;" href=http://convention.apolyton.net/photos/tour/ultimate_civ2-poster(firaxis_tour).jpg ><img border=0 src=http://apolyton.net/upload/view/830_full.gif title="click to enlarge" align=right></a><font size=1 color=gray>An Ultimate CivII lightbox</td></tr></table>
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More photos from the Friday of ApolyCon '06 will be released in future. Post-coverage of this gathering continues exclusively here on ACS.