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Vlaada Chvatil na BGG pisze:Hello all. I have just noticed this game was released. Personally, I feel it is rather sad. I do not know the people behind this project, and as long as I know, they never tried to contact me.

So, on one hand, there are people like Nicolas from Boardgaming online, or the Board Game Arena team, who approached me, and asked for the permission to make the game available to online players. And I agreed - because thats why I am doing games, to be played. I highly value these people, as they invest lots of time and effort to a non-commercial project and still respect the game design as an IP.

On the other hand, there are those people, who just came to a conclusion there is a weakness in the law that is worth to abuse, and spent months to do that. I suppose they are not in too much love with board games, and did it only for profit, and honestly, in that case, I think they have not picked a good title to abuse. TtA is very complex, far beyond a usual mobile game player is willing to accept, and moreover, from what I have seen, they failed at presenting it well. The tutorial must be really heavy and confusing for someone who never played the game. The board game does well in the rankings, which I am very grateful for, but that's worth nothing for them, as they had to change the title.

That leaves them only the TtA players... and honestly, I can't imagine the players would abandon boardgamingonline or board game arena, just to play a pirate copy, even if it is done well. Which is not. Their interface is hiding most of the information, you do not have good overall view of the game, you have to tap back and forth for everything. You can do stuff, but you do not see well what is behind. And I have noticed no undo. Playing this online must be really a pain.

I hope I am not wrong here, and those people will learn a lesson. How much fun they could have if they would try to develop their own civilization-like game, with mechanics better suitable for a mobile game?

Don Simon pisze:Zenada.