Most communication is done through Discord (used to be Skype and MSN before that, since we’re getting old), with direct project organization and documentation through Github and a bunch of spreadsheets. Honestly, sometimes I’m surprised how well everything works with such a large team, especially with how ad hoc it has to be. There are a few other members of the team whose backgrounds go out to a few other games like Starcraft, or Galactic Battlegrounds though. Usually, my ability to directly help other projects stays to a model or texture here or there since most of my modding time goes towards Empire at War Expanded. Originally it was gonna be set in our own universe that we did some initial design work for, but we had all these assets we’d made for Thrawn’s Revenge, and as a bunch of the devs was playing Sins we kept thinking “wouldn’t it be cool if this were a huge triangle instead?” so we ended up back where we started with Star Wars.īeyond that, I’ve contributed to a few other Empire at War and Sins mods over the years, a little for some mods for games like Freespace, and played around with some Stellaris stuff for personal use. Over that time we also made a Star Wars mod for Sins of a Solar Empire called Ascendancy, which we started in 2014 and gets updated a bit more sporadically because of some less-than-fun tools, even if I love the game. The initial releases especially weren’t great, but they were fun to make, and eventually, because of improved skills, better software, and more help in the last few years we’ve been able to go from Thrawn’s Revenge being one project back to covering all the original content we wanted to and then some, under the name Empire at War Expanded. We got back down to only Thrawn’s Revenge by 2010 as we realized how much we’d bitten off and as most of us on the team were finishing High School, we thought we’d just get a release of that out and then stop (then we never stopped). We quickly ramped up to four projects covering different eras of Star Wars, having no idea what we were doing. When they didn’t I started my own mod, Thrawn’s Revenge, hoping to expand that content myself. I had no idea how game development or mod development worked at the time, so I assumed when the game launched, so would all these huge mods adding all this content. When I started modding, it was just making a few changes to the Star Wars: Empire at War demo in 2006 before the game properly launched.
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