Gaslamp Games CEO Daniel Jacobson previews the new Clockwork Empires sandbox city-building strategy game, Clockwork Empires, in this exclusive interview from GDC 2014.
Indie developer gaslight games places a microscope on the process of cultivating the colonial frontier in the simulation Clockwork Empires.
Tom Chick - "If I was to make a game that I didn’t want anyone to actually play, it would look a lot like Clockwork Empires. A torturous interface with lots of busy little buttons and information spilled across various mutually exclusive screens. Basic tasks that require about two too many steps. Lots of waiting among the various stages of any process, so when you went off to do something else, you might forget the first thing you were doing. One way doors into unrecoverable economic death spirals that you don’t know you’re in until it’s far too late.
Also, it would crash a lot."
Gather your colonists! You will need great wits to get your steampunk colony up and running without facing the wrath of the Occult in Clockwork Empires!
Interesting take on strategy gaming.