eXplorminate interviews Brad Wardell on GalCiv IV

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From the eXplorminate website: Rob and Ben had a lengthy conversation with Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock, and the Creative Director of their upcoming, highly anticipated 4X game, Galactic Civilizations 4. Rob and Ben had a lot of questions and Brad had a lot of answers.

You can see it in video form here, complete with talking heads, raw and uncut:

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Thanks Rob and Ben too. Great questions, discussion and insight into GC4. Thanks also to Brad Wardell for being so open and forthcoming to all the questions asked of him regarding GC4. Great Stuff Guys!!!

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

For flavour, an option for a battle after action report that's super bare-bones for those not interested in all the technical details is to generate an article presented by the Galactic News Network. The briefest form could be the headline, while the article goes into ship numbers and losses. A more detailed report could be one presented by the equivalent of the war ministry, with an executive summary outlining the basics of losses and weapon effectiveness, while the body provides numerical details and perhaps more.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Great interview, really informative. Thanks for giving us some insight into what you're vision for GalCiv 4 is. If I've understood correctly you want each game to create a compelling, immersive, epic emergent story that the player wants to see reach its conclusion?

 

If so then that sounds amazing, and will definitely incentivise players to complete a game even on the biggest maps.