"Firaxis Q&A" (Part 4/5)

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During ApolyCon '06 held in Timonium, Maryland last July, Firaxis Games Director of Creative Development Sid Meier, Designer/Programmer Soren Johnson and Senior Producer Barry Caudill answered attendee questions about the company, the Civilization series and computer strategy gaming in general. Recorded by event Chairman Daniel "DanQ" Quick, what they said is now being made publicly available in a series of installments.

In the fourth of five parts the three Firaxis representatives first talk about how to adequately address the later stages of Civilization games more and then open up to take more questions from attendees. In addition to a follow-up on this discussion, other topics are the approaches that first went into each Civ title in the interests of game balancing, Civ on handheld platforms, the efforts of CivStats.com, seeing CivIV multiplayer games through and how the introduction of resources in Civ came about.

Available for listening in streaming 64kbps MP3 format, Part 3 runs for 17m18s (8.3MB); please note that due to the approach to recording, its technical quality is not ideal even after numerous post-production efforts but is by and large audible. The fifth and final part is scheduled to be published on March 26th.