I successfully killed off Gollop by attacking his mount, then his wizard. Only problem: the manticore I used to attack didn't really exist. Sorry, Julian.

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X-COM creator hopes his kinder, gentler strategy game will woo new players

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 26, 2015
Updated June 18, 2025
11 min

Julian Gollop designed X-COM, a difficult strategy game to dive into.

Perhaps as a bit of atonement, he’s now working on the hybrid strategy-RPG Chaos Reborn, which re-creates his original fantasy strategy game Chaos — and makes his whole approach to the genre quite a bit more friendly.

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