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A fan site for the PC game Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, recently got a chance to talk with one of the creators of the Age of Empires series. Rick Goodman left after the creation of Age of Empires to start the company SSSI, which created Empires: Dawn of the Modern World. The interview with him covers the creation of Age of Empires, along with talk about Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games in general. Here's a snippet:

Before we were finished with AoE, I was already thinking of what we ought to do as a step forward to make something bigger and better than AoE. And it occurred to me one time – it was 3 in the morning after a long night of work and I was walking home in pitch-black – it occurred to me that why not do a much more epic game? The same style, but why limit it to the Bronze age, Iron age? Why not Bronze age, Iron age, Dark ages, Middle ages, and all the way though, maybe even [to] the future.

Age of Empires Creator Q&A

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