![]() ![]() Sas: It’s going to be on multiple stores, yeah. GamesBeat: Is Ages of Wonder going to be on Steam or the Epic store, or are you going to try to sell it everywhere? What does it mean to be human in such a world? What ideological differences are there between people, between factions? Where does humanity go to? Those questions are things we deal with in this game, especially in the single-player campaign. The technological changes affecting the world, like mass automation maybe resulting in mass unemployment, doomsday weapons, sentient AI, ecological disaster, genetic modification. The doomsday scenarios looming over the horizon that we made real in this game. Sas: Primarily the way that the world of the Star Union is a reflection of our own world and what could happen to it. GamesBeat: What’s one aspect of science fiction that you’ve put into this game that you yourself love? It’s been a lot of fun to do a science fiction game for once. Of course sometimes we still talk about, oh, let’s cast a spell, when we really mean let’s use an operation. The entire world, the Star Union, all the faction designs, they rely less heavily on predefined tropes. In science fiction there’s a lot more freedom to shape your future. ![]() Especially, Age of Wonders was more of a classic fantasy setting, relying on more direct tropes. But translating that into a game world is a lot more work. We grew up watching the old Battlestar Galactica. Of course we’ve been science fiction fans for all our lives. ![]() GamesBeat: Was it difficult for your team and for yourself to get out of the mindset of fantasy medieval units and work on sci-fi? You may also be interested in this recent VentureBeat interview with Truimph Studios' CEO Lennart Sas. Here's a fresh faction spotlight video dedicated to the Syndicate: The faction augments its ruthless trading practices with considerable psionic prowess and is fairly formidable when it comes to espionage. The Syndicate is one of the factions you'll be able to play as in Paradox Interactive and Truimph Studios' upcoming 4X strategy with RPG elements Age of Wonders: Planetfall. ![]()
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