Pre Civilization Egypt

[Hofstadter]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/461620/

[Raied]

Seems very interesting for me, I will grab it today, the developers also made a game about Ancient Greece earlier called Marble Age, I think I will grab that too.

[Anguille]

Finally....

Going to grab this as soon as my paycheck comes in.

[tgb]

I haven't watched the video yet.  I thought about getting it but have doubts about the replayabilitity.  Wishlisted.

[Jarhead0331]

Not a culture that particularly interests me when it comes to gaming. Pass on this one. Enjoy!

[Philippe]

How could you not like a culture that made pots that look like this:






If you happened to study archeology in school (ok, not very many people did), the period is a turn-on.

If nothing else, the game's a blast just for the artwork.

[Jarhead0331]

The artwork is nice. I'm just not a fan of loin cloths.

[Philippe]

My girlfriend rather likes them...

[Father Ted]

How could you not like a culture that made pots that look like this:

Sorry, I couldn't admire anything that has feet of clay

[Barthheart]

 ;D

[Nefaro]

I haven't watched the video yet.  I thought about getting it but have doubts about the replayabilitity.  Wishlisted.

Same.


I'm a bit concerned about it's depth.  Is it another made-for-tablet game?  Read mentions of it being rather puzzle-like in it's strategy.

But I'm always looking for more ancient bronze age stuff.  Someone will give impressions, I hope.

[steve58]

I messed around with this last March/April when they had an early demo.  Just didn't care for it. 

There is a Demo Download on the Steam page.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/461620/

You can also get the demo from their webpage (http://egypt-civilization.com/), but you've got to "subscribe" to their news.  I may give it another go to see if its changed much.

[Philippe]

This is what it looks like when you're in the game.

I may just be at the begining of a downward spiral of senior moments, but when you come back to the game after not playing it for a while, the correct moves aren't neccessarily obvious so you don't hit on them from the get-go.  So though the replay value isn't as great as in Age of Decadence, there's more than enough to get wrong.  But I should mention that for the most part the game tends to be a single solution puzzle.

However, the charm of this game doesn't come from solving the puzzle.  My girlfriend teaches drawing at one of the local colleges, and part of one of her assignments is to go to the Met and draw a bas-relief from an Egyptian tomb (and then draw a Greek vase painting and write a paper comparing and contrasting what is going on graphically).  Playing this game is like having the Egyptian drawing part of her assignment come to life (and it's a lot more fun than reading the papers they write about it).  I've probably studied too much Egyptology, but I get a big kick out of watching the little wall paintings come to life. I like the animated film 'Sita sings the Blues' for the same reason ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QkYOqI3jSM).

I haven't looked at the demo lately, but the original demo was written in Borat-English.  I don't want to belabor the point (especially if you read the game's credits carefully) but the actual game plays out in a reasonable facsimile of late-twentieth century English.

But it's possible to play the game reading very little of what's written so it doesn't have to be very taxing. 

[JudgeDredd]

I like the art

[tgb]

Tried the demo.  Meh.