So when creating new systems and designing others around well-established Civilization concepts, they relied heavily on their quality assurance team and some dedicated fans who got early code. Their approach during development tried to walk the line between the familiar and the new. They were making a Civ game, but it was an oddball. They had good reason to be, but it now seems somewhat misguided.Ī Miller explained, they knew it would be compared directly to its predecessor, a reality both understandable and somewhat unfair. Despite its departure, McDonough admits that Beyond Earth suffers from "a little bit of lack of ambition," because he and Miller "pulled our punches a little bit." The problem, they now understand, is that they were a bit too cautious and a bit too revenant to previous games. Though it's something of a spiritual successor to the 1999 Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, game's other-worldly premise was new for Civilization. Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is the follow-up to Civilization 5 and its expansions. Polygon Video: The cinematic opening to Civilization: Beyond Earth
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The upcoming patch is their attempt to fix their creation, many of whose mistakes began in a game they didn't create. These days, more than four months after its October 2014 release, they're hard at work on what McDonough characterizes as the 2.0 version of Beyond Earth. The good news for McDonough and Miller is that, at Firaxis, releasing a game isn't the same thing as finishing a game. And some of those things would have probably been caught in a beta they never had. When creating their first Civilization game, they got some things wrong. In several ways, the newcomers now know they were a little too cautious. It was received with critical acclaim last year.īeyond Earth wasn't all bold new frontiers, though. They took the franchise off-world for the first time, eschewing the comfortable confines of Earth for alien landscapes. And they would do it at the studio where the man whose name appears on its games resides. Not long ago, developer Firaxis Games gave the young designers a chance that few get: To create a radical new entry in the venerable Civilization series. The duo detailed their triumphs and shortcomings in a 2015 Game Developers Conference presentation - and discussed their plan to fix their shortcomings by being bolder where they were once more timid. These are problems that the co-lead designers hope to fix.
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