Comments - Nico_Schoeman

Hi there.

I would like to put a few of my thoughts and opinions forward.
You guys are leaning very heavily on Spore for inspiration.
so read this Designer-notes.com
In there Soren makes the point that making 5 games in 1 is a bad idea, and it would have been better if the focus of Spore was only on "cell stage" and "creature stage", this I think would be very good advice to you guys.

What I would like to see is you forgetting about space and civilization and instead focus on the evolution aspect. I would like to see the idea of "stages" dropped in favor of one seamless evolution experience.

Good luck

Good Job Shadow_Assassin ;) If someone want's to PM me rather send it to Nico_Schoeman as I'm active on this profile.

Very cool :) I'll keep a watch to see where you take this. Good job so far.

Unity does have networking capabilities yes, though they are not ideal for doing very complicated stuff server side, in that case it's best to find another solution. For what I'm aiming at right now Unity's networking stuff is more than enough :)

The Celestial team will have a meeting now to discuss Throne and what we want to do with it. We would still like input from you guys. We will keep you posted.

Hi Marktk
Did you download the guide? and if you did, did you find it helpful?

Hi Marktk, Thanks for getting back to us. We just checked, our server was down. Sorry about that, we don't check it very often. But it should be up now. Also you can setup your own server on your machine, the sever executable is included in the download. This will allow you to play alone or with friends. I will post some news soon to explain how to set your own server. Please note that we made Throne in 48 hours, so there is some bugs. We will put in some time soon to clean it up and maybe make some improvements

Regards
Nico