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• 50 Years of Text Games - 1991: Trade Wars 2002 (27 May 2021)
• Black Out! at HG101 (9 April 2021)
• 50 Years of Text Games - 1974: Super Star Trek (28 January 2021)

• The Digital Antiquarian talks Master of Magic (23 October 2020)
• The Digital Antiquarian talks X-Com (18 September 2020)
• The Making of Dune II (7 September 2020): The birth of the real-time strategy game
• EA's strategy for remastering Command & Conquer (24 July 2020)

• A hobbyist developer's love letter to Warcraft 1 (12 December 2019): first in a series of articles about remaking the classic game's engine for modern computers
• Command and Conquer at HG101 (12 November 2019)
• 20 years later, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is still a frightening prophecy (18 September 2019): Fascinating insights about the story of a planet-wide ecological breakdown, and the war people are fighting in the middle of it.
• On two decades of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (20 August 2019)
• The history of the strategy game (18 July 2019)
• Per Aspera Ad Astra (2 July 2019): The deep and surprising roots of 4X games.
• Dune (at HG101) (2 February 2019)
• Little Wars (27 January 2019): How HG Wells created hobby war gaming

• Controlling the Spice, Part 2: Cryo’s Dune (30 November 2018)
• Retro Revisited: Z (4 November 2018)
• Developing Spore: An oral ('Sporal'?) history 10 years on (11 September 2018)
• All rise and no fall (15 March 2018): How Civilization reinforces a dangerous myth.

• Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 1: Strategy and Simulation (December 2017)
• Rock and Roll Days of StarCraft (27 April 2017): a development retrospective

Two important postmortems

Ever wanted to know how Warcraft and Starcraft were made? Now’s your chance. The man who led development on both projects is writing multipart postmortems on both of them:

• The making of Warcraft
• Tough times on the road to Starcraft

The rest of Patrick Wyatt’s (very new) blog covers a variety of programming topics, some specific to game development, others more general — an excellent addition to any blogroll.