playing virtual god
ANNO 1404: Dawn of Discovery was awarded in five categories at this years German Game Developer Award.
It won the audience award for “Best German Game 2009″ and jury awards in the categories “Best German Strategy Game”, “Best Game Design”, “Best Graphics” and “Best Soundtrack”. Since the German Developer Award is regarded as the most important award for developers of computer and console games in Germany, I’m a little proud myself.
Some time after its completion, Tjuhl’s master thesis is garnering some attention by online world researchers at http://virtual-economy.org.
Throughout his thesis, Tjuhl developed a framework and mechanism for an online world economy free of goldfarming. Those pesky goldsellers have become a major annoyance to the players, but also to virtual gods, people and companies that operate and develop online games. While flashing those persons to virtual death with lightning is fun for a short while, at some point it just takes too much time and effort to deal with that nuisance.
Continue reading ‘Goldfarming-free online worlds are possible’
Yet another of my recent projects gone gold: Thanks to the combined effort of Tjuhl and me, I am happy to release version 1.0 of Capture the Egg to the public! Be assured that’s not the last you will see from CtE, we have planned some hot new features and 4 more classes for version 1.1. Stay tuned for more!
It’s done! The production of ANNO 1404 (international title: Dawn of Discovery) is finished and the game will ship June 25th. Time to go on a 2 week vacation!
Dennis Sasse holds a Master of Engineering (Diplom Ingeneur) in Computational Visualistics and currently works as Application Development Manager at Microsoft Germany. In his spare time, he seeks enlightment in the areas of Game and Level Design.
