Jon Shafer’s At the Gates: New strategy studio Conifer Games is starting small but has huge ambitions

What’s next for a designer of strategy games after working at Firaxis and Stardock, two of the few remaining studios making turn-based titles for the PC these days? Run over to Europe and catch on with a publisher such as Paradox Interactive?

If you’re Jon Shafer, you find another option: You start your own studio.