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Powermonger
''Powermonger'' is a real-time strategy game developed by Bullfrog in 1990 for Amiga and Atari ST, derived from the '' Populous'' engine but presented using a 3-dimensional game map. Gameplay The game features a 3-dimensional game map, although camera movement is limited to rotating the map by 90 degrees or small discrete intervals and 8 pre-defined levels of zoom. Only the map topography itself is 3-dimensional; people, trees and other game objects are 2-dimensional sprites. The game features a fairly advanced (for its time) "artificial life" engine. Each person seems to have a mind of their own and will go about his or her job, fishing, farming, shepherding, collecting wood or making items without any input from the player. The player can also use a query tool to view the name, sex, age, allegiance, vital stats, hometown and equipment of any given individual. This aspect of the game has some clear resemblances (though less advanced) with the later '' Black & White'' game als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powermonger Amiga
''Powermonger'' is a real-time strategy game developed by Bullfrog in 1990 for Amiga and Atari ST, derived from the '' Populous'' engine but presented using a 3-dimensional game map. Gameplay The game features a 3-dimensional game map, although camera movement is limited to rotating the map by 90 degrees or small discrete intervals and 8 pre-defined levels of zoom. Only the map topography itself is 3-dimensional; people, trees and other game objects are 2-dimensional sprites. The game features a fairly advanced (for its time) "artificial life" engine. Each person seems to have a mind of their own and will go about his or her job, fishing, farming, shepherding, collecting wood or making items without any input from the player. The player can also use a query tool to view the name, sex, age, allegiance, vital stats, hometown and equipment of any given individual. This aspect of the game has some clear resemblances (though less advanced) with the later ''Black & White'' game also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Carr (video Game Developer)
Gary Carr (born February 1966) is an English video game developer. His career began at Palace Software, where he worked on titles such as '' Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior'' and '' Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax''. In 1989, he joined Bullfrog Productions and worked as lead artist on ''Powermonger'' and '' Populous II''. He also worked on ''Theme Park'', but, after a disagreement with Peter Molyneux, he left the company to work for The Bitmap Brothers, where he worked on ''The Chaos Engine 2''. He returned to Bullfrog in 1995 hoping to work on ''Dungeon Keeper'', but worked on ''Theme Hospital'' instead. He left Bullfrog again in 1998 to join Mucky Foot Productions. In 2003, he joined Lionhead Studios, and later became a Creative Director, as well as an Executive Producer at Microsoft Game Studios. He left Lionhead in 2015. The following year, he set up a new company, Two Point Studios. In 2017, the company signed a publishing deal with Sega for a new game. Career Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullfrog Productions
Bullfrog Productions Limited was a British video game developer based in Guildford, England. Founded in 1987 by Peter Molyneux and Les Edgar, the company gained recognition in 1989 for their third release, ''Populous (video game), Populous'', and is also well known for titles such as ''Theme Park (video game), Theme Park'', ''Magic Carpet (video game), Magic Carpet'', ''Syndicate (1993 video game), Syndicate'' and ''Dungeon Keeper''. Bullfrog's name was derived from an ornament in the offices of Edgar's and Molyneux's other enterprise, Taurus Impact Systems, Bullfrog's precursor where Molyneux and Edgar were developing business software. Bullfrog Productions was founded as a separate entity after Commodore International, Commodore mistook Taurus for a similarly named company. Electronic Arts, Bullfrog's video game publisher, publisher, List of acquisitions by Electronic Arts, acquired the studio in January 1995. Molyneux had become an Electronic Arts vice-president and consulta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Molyneux
Peter Douglas Molyneux (; born 5 May 1959) is an English video game designer and programmer. He created the god games '' Populous'', ''Dungeon Keeper'', and '' Black & White'', as well as ''Theme Park'', the ''Fable'' series, '' Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube?'', and ''Godus''. He currently works at 22cans. Career Early career Peter Molyneux began his career in 1982 by distributing and selling floppy disks which contained video games for Atari and the Commodore 64. He believed that including games on the disks would improve sales, and later concluded that the games were the main selling point. He created ''The Entrepreneur'', a text-based business simulation game about running a fledgling company. "In those days you could literally call a game 'Space Blob Attacks Mars' and sell about 50 million copies. So what did I do? I did a business simulation", Molyneux later said. Molyneux published the game himself in 1984 by duplicating hundreds of tapes on two Tandy Corporation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populous (video Game)
''Populous'' is a video game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts, released originally for the Amiga in 1989, and is regarded by many as the first God game. With over four million copies sold, ''Populous'' is one of the best-selling PC games of all time. The player assumes the role of a deity, who must lead followers through direction, manipulation, and divine intervention, with the goal of eliminating the followers led by the opposite deity. Played from an isometric perspective, the game consists of more than 500 levels, with each level being a piece of land which contains the player's followers and the enemy's followers. The player is tasked with defeating the enemy followers and increasing their own followers' population using a series of divine powers before moving on to the next level. The game was designed by Peter Molyneux, and Bullfrog developed a gameplay prototype via a board game they invented using Lego. The game received critical accl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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