A local store is selling some old Airfix Dogfighter games they found lying around, for the neat sum of 20 NOK (~4 USD). That game predates even EU1. But IIRC Johan was making games with Funcom before he joined PI?
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No idea about Airfix, but this is what mobygames says about Johan's pre-Paradox times: "Formerly an employee of Funcom Oslo A/S, where he was responsible for titles such as Nightmare Circus and NBA Hang Time, Andersson moved back to his native Stockholm to work as a senior programmer for Target Games in January 1998. He was involved from the start in developing the award winning Europa engine, which has been used for over half a dozen successful games the last decade."
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,39146/
The Europa engine has been replaced by Clauzewitz for a while now, nothing about that?
Check the link; looks like they list all the games with Johan's name on them (as dev or publisher).
Well it lists all the Clausewitz games (through mid-2011 at least). Only the text summary doesn't mention Clausewitz.Nothing to do with it. I asked about the engine.
You will probably find yourself listed there to as a game-developer. At least I am listed there as a 'game-developer' (but they base that solely on the fact that I am listed in the credits as a beta).
Me too, or rather my first name and last name. They failed to include Nikolai, which should be in the middle. So it's really my father's name. But only my Civ5 betaing is covered. Oh well.
So it's really my father's name. But only my Civ5 betaing is covered. Oh well.
How come there was never a King Arthur I icon? It's on special today, on Impulse ...
Today's a sad day. I got that sinking feeling in my stomach a little while ago.
I've thoroughly enjoyed my quest of the past year or so, searching out Paradox bargains on the game sites, mostly gamersgate, impulse and the very odd Steam product.
I was brought up poor. Play the violins... So it has left me with a chronic aversion to buying "new". Even when I had the "good", well-paying jobs, I still had my affliction. I buy second-hand, never new, not unless I have to. Even my car is a banger.
My wife is the same. You should see her spend hours on Ebay, searching out bargains, plotting her bids with great timing and tact. The absolute joy when she gets her bargain.. a pair of real leather shoes, NEW, size 5, for £3.00, plus postage. ...
I'm the same with games. I've lots of games, 95% of which were "bargains". What's a bargain? Getting a newish game for 8 euros, when the list is 30 euros!
But today, I look at my Paradox list, and there are only a very few left, unbought. I see the end of the road approaching. Soon, there'll be no more bargain-hunting. I feel sad today.
I've thoroughly enjoyed my quest of the past year or so, searching out Paradox bargains on the game sites, mostly gamersgate, impulse and the very odd Steam product.
I was brought up poor. Play the violins... So it has left me with a chronic aversion to buying "new". Even when I had the "good", well-paying jobs, I still had my affliction. I buy second-hand, never new, not unless I have to. Even my car is a banger.
My wife is the same. You should see her spend hours on Ebay, searching out bargains, plotting her bids with great timing and tact. The absolute joy when she gets her bargain.. a pair of real leather shoes, NEW, size 5, for £3.00, plus postage. ...
I'm the same with games. I've lots of games, 95% of which were "bargains". What's a bargain? Getting a newish game for 8 euros, when the list is 30 euros!
But today, I look at my Paradox list, and there are only a very few left, unbought. I see the end of the road approaching. Soon, there'll be no more bargain-hunting. I feel sad today.
I think I will not most likely have almost all paradox games, because some paradox games are not my taste.
I think I will not most likely have almost all paradox games, because some paradox games are not my taste.
That's not a reason! Buy them on sales for a few bucks and embrace the power of the icons!
That's not a reason! Buy them on sales for a few bucks and embrace the power of the icons!
May be I should register all the paradox games I own.
I picked up my Diplomacy from a 5 below for a few bucks a few years ago. So started my adventures that would one day lead me to paradox...
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The first Paradox game that I bought at full price was Crusader Kings 2. I paid nine dollars for EU1 back early last decade (which started my whole Paradox obsession), bought EU2 bundled with CotN (before there were icons), then EU3 complete once I upgraded my PC. CK1 was gotten for a song, but I am committed to CK2 so I finally broke down and got it, but no golden icon. I will have to be happy with just the ordinary shield.
I am bummed out that I missed the special preorder icon for ck2... was so busy with work during that time so didn't notice what was going on.
but for me the most prized icon is the golden platypus, and for a long time I thought I totally missed out on it until a forum friend told me he had it and was willing to gift it to me. That was really awesome Thanks again, Teur!
we should have like an icon alerting system which sends emails when a new icon somehow becomes available
but for me the most prized icon is the golden platypus, and for a long time I thought I totally missed out on it until a forum friend told me he had it and was willing to gift it to me. That was really awesome
Thanks again, Teur!we should have like an icon alerting system which sends emails when a new icon somehow becomes available
we should have like an icon alerting system which sends emails when a new icon somehow becomes available
I absolutely second the motion !
Especially, as i feel it's not all that easy to see the mission icons with the new game-registring system (unless i've missed something... :unsure
I agree as well.Maybe it could be a part of the newsletter.What surprised me was the lack of icons for the new releases like Defenders of Ardania and Gettysburg. I think it is safe to say that an icon boosts sales...
To TheDarkside: i missed the CK2 Preorder icon for just a couple of hours. I registered anyway but i am still knocking my head on the wall I fear icon-hunting has become a kind of obsession
To TheDarkside: i missed the CK2 Preorder icon for just a couple of hours. I registered anyway but i am still knocking my head on the wall
I fear icon-hunting has become a kind of obsession