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Yea. And being behind the wall, you have to heat the office 11 months a year... ;-)
After thinking about it for a while, I decided I'm going into my family practice for development. I would like to thank Paradox for inspiring through many years of their games. I promise to turn Charlotte into the most glorious Venetian city-state after I sack Raleigh.
This may of been asked a thousand years ago but:
- How did Paradox Interactive survive in the beginning?
- What size was the team around 1999/2000?
- How did Paradox Interactive acquire funding to develop Europa Universalis 1?
- Was it tough developing games in the first few years?
- Was there any doubts or worries that Paradox Interactive may go defunct during the first few years?
- If the original staff travelled back to 1999, would there be anything you would do differently?
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Is Paradox Interactive interested in joining a game devs meet up event in downtown Cologne during Gamescom 2015 on Saturday?
I am, but I am sadly only in Cologne from 5/8 to 7/8 :/ Maybe there's some people from Paradox that will stay until Sunday, do you have more details?
Thanks for the interest. Here are more details. I'll make sure to drop by the Paradox booth before the devs leave.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/game-devs-networking-event-tickets-17596321070
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/game-devs-networking-event-tickets-17596321070
Fan gathering event is the best place to get them all in one place and time. That Happens Thursday night 20:00-23:00
Hello, Paradox Interactive! Sorry for my english. Rang of government is great idea but republic can't be a duchy, kingdom or empire. It's monarchy government. Did you want to do republic for example federation instead empire etc.?
Game specific comments should go in the forum for that game example here is the CKII forum https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/crusader-kings-ii.551/
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Well...we were first called Target Games AB, and then at the end of 1999 part of Target Games formed a new company called Paradox Entertainment, then in 2005 we split off into PI.
For the first years it worked fine, we were part of a large company for the first 4 years doing RPG's, boardgames, etc, that let us create a computergames division.
Then those things kinda died, and we had to downsize.
Then the actual development team for EU1 was me (coder, designer, etc), as all other had been let go, or moved to another team. We were basically 10 at the company then. It was even worse a year later when another team was let go, and we were down to .. Me, Patric, Fredrik Malmberg, Dick Sjöström, Marcus Edström and our then CEO Theo Bergqvist, and we were starting working on HoI1.. We also had Doomdark joining the company in late 2000 as well.
Dick (3d artist) now works at Avalanche (3d artist) and Marcus (2d Artist) at King IIRC
Own money, and some outside investment. Luckily Fred M was a shrewd negotiator and forced them to fund Europa Universalis to be allowed to fund Valhalla Chronicles.
Oh hell yes.
Usually in at 8 am, and then took a taxi home at 9-10pm... and then I coded EU2 patches in the weekend cause I had no life.
Only one other developer that could program at all until 2003, and he was working 100km away from me (Doomdark)(
So many times its not even funny. We tried to hide the scary times from the employees when we grow, but postponing salaries was very common for us in the management.
Luckily, stuff managed to become slightly more positive when we hired Fred to run the sales & marketing, and we started to self-publish.
There were some games we released where we basically got paid 0$ at some major markets. THANK THE LORD OF THE DARK FOR STEAM!
1) Bet on certain sports events I know about.
2) invest some money & time into a battle.net/steam system & a world of warcraft mmo-game for my own enjoyment.
3) live a good life
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Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions Johan, it's much appreciated and it's an interesting insight into Paradox's history!
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Victoria (base game) and maybe Crusader Kings. They had a few... issues with the release of those, due to middlemen taking the money and running and the like.
All those games under my flag would have gone unpurchased without a second hand copy of Victoria lying in a bargain bin 10 or so years ago, so at least that's something. Especially given it was probably second hand due to the complete lack of copy protection - not that I realised that until years later. All that time I was completely needlessly taking out my KotOR or AoE disc and putting in my Vicky disc because I assumed it was needed to play
In which year and/or after the release of which game did Paradox stabilize financially? I.e. when did you have a comfortable amount of money in the bank, so you didn't have to worry about paying salaries, or if you had to delay the release of a game for a month it wouldn't ruin the company.
Was it 2012/CK2 or was it earlier?
Was it 2012/CK2 or was it earlier?
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How many (estimated) insides jokes have circulated within the office over the years?
Has anyone ever played office prank? What was it?
What was the best prank assuming they happen(ed) every now and then?
Has anyone ever played office prank? What was it?
What was the best prank assuming they happen(ed) every now and then?
I know this isn't the right thread for it, but taking into account the low amount of traffic HOI 1 forum has I felt compelled to ask here anyway.
It's rather simple though. Where do I buy it?
It's rather simple though. Where do I buy it?
It's available from "Good Old Games": https://www.gog.com/game/hearts_of_iron
Might find a hardcopy version on Amazon or eBay. Also search for "Hearts of Iron Platinum" and "Hearts of Iron Anthology" (anthology includes both HoI1 and HoI2+expansions).
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