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    Civilization for Facebook: What do You Think?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by sirmetman, Oct 21, 2009.

  1. sirmetman

    sirmetman Notebook Virtuoso

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    So Gamasutra has an article on Firaxis doing Civilization for Facebook.

    http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25747

    I'm conflicted. I hope it is good, and gives me an entirely new way to skrew off at work. ;) However, the idea of shoehorning Civ in to a Facebook-friendly game... well, I hope they make Facebook fit Civ, not the other way around. I also hope this isn't evidence of yet one more awesome dev with a great series and IP jumping ship to console/social network/casual games. I hope they leverage the income from these other types of games to drive development of thier core competancy, and don't change themselves in to some ized shell of their former selves. So what do you think?
     
    sirmetman, Oct 21, 2009
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  2. StormEffect

    StormEffect Lazer. *pew pew*

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    They also took the Civ engine and threw it on the iPhone. I spent several flights playing it.

    If they use the same engine and just make a Facebook Friendly UI, I can see this being incredibly successful.
     
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  3. neilnat

    neilnat Notebook Evangelist

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    Ick. On facebook you'll get bonuses for inviting friends. They killed Oregon Trail too. The only game on facebook that isn't completely inane is Scrabble/Scrabulous.
     
    neilnat, Oct 21, 2009
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    cloud962 Notebook Consultant

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    I didn't really like Civ on the iphone. It was slow and too hard to control, imo.
     
    cloud962, Oct 21, 2009
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    Seems like it could work...
     
    tootall4wsu, Oct 21, 2009
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    I think it's blasphemy, but the developers put the franchise on consoles so there's no telling how far they'll go to expand the series.
     
    Harleyquin07, Oct 22, 2009
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