I just saw a post on "Forgotten Empires" Facebook page announcing a "hot and STEAMy" summer work
The story behind this has been posted on official "Age of Empires II: HD Edition" Steam page as another Development Update an hour ago. Here`s the most interesting part, concerning the "Forgotten Empires":
The story behind this has been posted on official "Age of Empires II: HD Edition" Steam page as another Development Update an hour ago. Here`s the most interesting part, concerning the "Forgotten Empires":
Originally posted by MS Ryz0n on "Age of Empires II: HD Edition" Steam page.
You asked, We Heard
After looking through the community’s desires, there are a number of areas we’d like to focus on with future development. To help us do so, we are thrilled to announce a new partnership with the team behind the community driven Forgotten Empires project. We’ll be providing an official announcement with specifics in the coming weeks, but this an exciting time to be an Age of Empires fan! Development teams spend quite a bit of time creating games, but there have been dedicated community members tinkering under the hood for the last decade. Working with the FE team will allow us to focus on improving what the community has been deemed most important over the years!
From Bert “Cysion” Beeckman and the FE team:
[div2=header_info2]Originally posted by FE Team:
"Almost 2 years ago, a group of long-standing fans of the game started to explore the limits of the AOE II engine and discovered that those limits had not been reached yet. With a good portion of confidence we expanded our unofficial project with talent around the globe as more people joined our quest to breathe new life into the game. Starting from a group of passionate hobbyists, we expanded our approach into a streamlined development cycle. However, one key player was missing in this whole story, Microsoft.
Once we felt like we had created something truly unique, we went ahead and approached Redmond. Little did we know they had a rekindled interest in AOE II as well, with AOE2 HD already under development behind the scenes. Thanks to the shared excitement for the franchise between both parties, we are thrilled to have an opportunity to bring the community’s expertise to AOE II HD!”[/div2]
You can read the whole Development Update post here.You asked, We Heard
After looking through the community’s desires, there are a number of areas we’d like to focus on with future development. To help us do so, we are thrilled to announce a new partnership with the team behind the community driven Forgotten Empires project. We’ll be providing an official announcement with specifics in the coming weeks, but this an exciting time to be an Age of Empires fan! Development teams spend quite a bit of time creating games, but there have been dedicated community members tinkering under the hood for the last decade. Working with the FE team will allow us to focus on improving what the community has been deemed most important over the years!
From Bert “Cysion” Beeckman and the FE team:
[div2=header_info2]Originally posted by FE Team:
"Almost 2 years ago, a group of long-standing fans of the game started to explore the limits of the AOE II engine and discovered that those limits had not been reached yet. With a good portion of confidence we expanded our unofficial project with talent around the globe as more people joined our quest to breathe new life into the game. Starting from a group of passionate hobbyists, we expanded our approach into a streamlined development cycle. However, one key player was missing in this whole story, Microsoft.
Once we felt like we had created something truly unique, we went ahead and approached Redmond. Little did we know they had a rekindled interest in AOE II as well, with AOE2 HD already under development behind the scenes. Thanks to the shared excitement for the franchise between both parties, we are thrilled to have an opportunity to bring the community’s expertise to AOE II HD!”[/div2]