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rfmcdonaldThe fact that I'm involved in the Tirane Sourcebook project, aimed at fleshing out the populous and prosperous human colony world at Alpha Centauri known as Tirane in the 2300AD/2320 setting, and my enthusiastic hope that there are Earth-like planets orbiting one or the other or both Alpha Centauri A and B, certainly has something to do with the fact that Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is my favourite computer game. It has been for a decade.
A spiritual successor to the famous Civilization series, seven different players--fourteen different players if you've the Alien Crossfire expansion module, including two alien factions--with different ideologies compete for supremacy. I like strategy computer games very much, and I like science fiction very much. There's something about the contention of the many different ideologies--technocratic, mercantile, Gaianist, bureaucratic, and so on--that makes the universe seem real. Plus, there's something fun about sending mind worms to terrorize your enemies.
Guess what game I'm playing a lot more of lately?
A spiritual successor to the famous Civilization series, seven different players--fourteen different players if you've the Alien Crossfire expansion module, including two alien factions--with different ideologies compete for supremacy. I like strategy computer games very much, and I like science fiction very much. There's something about the contention of the many different ideologies--technocratic, mercantile, Gaianist, bureaucratic, and so on--that makes the universe seem real. Plus, there's something fun about sending mind worms to terrorize your enemies.
Guess what game I'm playing a lot more of lately?
