How does on go about making a sequel to one of the most famous arcade maze games, fourteen years later? Wait but… weren’t there already sequels to the original game? Not really. Ms. Pac-man was a spin-off, Pac-mania was a “reimagining”, Pac-land another spin-off, even though it definitely did look and play like what the…
– Hello Jim and thanks for being available for this short interview! I have read on a website that you got the mail idea for Majesty while playing The Settlers. Can you confirm and elaborate on this? Jim: Yes, I was playing The Settlers, and watching one of the workers going fishing, and noticed that…
Kings are the slaves of Real-Time Strategy. In 2000 Majesty came parading out of the gates, sceptre in hand, screaming to the world: “I am the Fantasy Kingdom sim”. And we could say it kept its promise, since the whole game comes straight out of a Dungeons’n’Dragons rulebook of the nineties. Rangers, rogues, warriors, wizards,…