How Bruce Shelley brought a board gamer’s view into designing Civilization
Before he worked on Civilization with legendary game designer Sid Meier, Bruce Shelley was a board game designer at companies such as Avalon Hill....
Civilization’s father, Sid Meier, shares 25 years of insights on his beloved series
Sid Meier is the legendary designer behind many different computer games in a wide variety of genres, and he’s perhaps the only video game...
Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1 billion hours played, and 66 versions
LAS VEGAS — Civilization is one of the gods of strategy games, where you oversee the creation of a whole society in competition with other civilizations. It...
Age of Empires devs modernize the RTS genre with faster gameplay — and giant mechs
Half of BonusXP's team are real-time strategy vets from Ensemble Studios.
How Zynga grew from gaming outcast to $9 billion social game powerhouse
Update: This article is now available as a 63-page e-book on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore. Zynga has turned the video game world upside down in...