Very few people in the world of computer wargame design have been concocting conflicts sims commercially for as long as Robert Crandall of On Target Simulations. Although the father of the chaos-embracing Flashpoint Campaigns series is busy putting the finishing…
When Mark Judd began self-publishing, indie game developers were as rare as hen dentists. After a lengthy hiatus, the chap behind pleasingly physical diversions such as Detonate*, X-Sail, and Vertigo has returned to the fray recently with a new instalment…
Reykjavíkian dev Baldvin Albertsson doesn’t simply want to make an entertaining WWI game, he wants to make a thought-provoking and insightful one. In the following Q&A the ex-actor and theatre director describes some of the ways in which upcoming management game…
If you frequent certain forums at Matrix Games, Subsim, and Reddit you may have come across posts written by today’s interviewee, ‘BlindGuyNW’. As his online handle suggests, Zack wargames by ear and touch rather than eye. In many battle sims…
Missing tutorials and Zimmerit-rough in places, flawed-but-fun Tank Squad feels like it should have launched as an Early Access title. The following Q&A explains why it didn’t, and reveals just how much DeGenerals had to sacrifice in order to keep…
Five years ago today, Early Access Armoured Commander 2 hit Steam. Part-time developer, full -time academic, Gregory Adam Scott promised “over a year of planned additions and updates” in his first post-launch communique. What he and his customers didn’t know…
A lot of water has flowed under the Ponte Tally-Ho since I first swapped emails with Gabe, the AI specialist behind promising swords-and-sandals wargame, Strategos. Keen to catch-up, I recently quizzed him about a range of topics including project progress,…
The days when THC dealt with competitors using polonium-laced IPA, booby-trapped sim hardware, or bouquets sprinkled with funnel-web spiders, are long gone. Nowadays we usually employ more humane methods like distracting our rivals with time-consuming interview questions.
Me and the creator of Apache Canyon – a new game for the venerable Acorn Electron – have a few things in common. Not only are we Brits of a similar vintage, we’ve got the same surname and paternal grandparents.
Fellow passengers in Train Sim World rarely make eye contact let alone start conversations. Last Wednesday, however, while riding the virtual 15:11 from London Victoria to Epsom, my daydreams were interrupted by a cheery “Hello Tim!”.
Having spent the last two Fridays mercilessly lambasting the EU’s attempts to boost the game development sector, I feel it’s only fair to let some beneficiaries of Creative Europe grants tell their side of the story today. Below the break,…
The Frenchman behind Kriegsspiel – 7 Years War, a work-in-progress wargame in which fresh intel is almost as important as feisty infantry, talks formative years and future plans in THC’s latest Q&A.