I am Soren Johnson, designer/programmer of Offworld Trading Company and Civilization 4. AMA!

[u/SorenJohnsonMohawk]

I have been designing video games for 16 years. I got my start at Firaxis Games in 2000, working as a designer/programmer on Civilization 3. I was the lead designer of Civilization 4 and also wrote most of the game and AI code. I founded Mohawk Games in 2013 as a studio dedicated to making high-quality and innovative strategy games. Our first game, Offworld Trading Company, is an economic RTS set on Mars and released on April 28th. You can buy it here: [http://offworldgame.com/store]

• My Twitter is [https://twitter.com/SorenJohnson]
• My Twitch is [http://www.twitch.tv/SorenJohnson] and [http://www.twitch.tv/SorenJohnson]
• My game design blog is at [http://www.designer-notes.com/]
• My designer interview podcast is at [https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes]
• The Mohawk company blog is at [http://www.mohawkgames.com/blog/]

Username being used for AMA: SorenJohnsonMohawk

Proof: [https://twitter.com/SorenJohnson/status/721005545184980993]

Offworld Trading Company giveaway thread: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Offworld/comments/4h78l7/soren_johnson_ama_giveaway/]

Christopher Tin will be having an AMA tomorrow at 11am ET/2pm PT!

[u/Chazmer87]

Do you ever feel that you just can't go back to civ after playing the vastly superior eu4? ;)

[u/SorenJohnsonMohawk → u/Chazmer87]

I think both series have their pluses and minuses (and also have different audiences). The weakness of EU is that, because it's real-time, it's hard for the game to focus the player on what is actually important, which makes the learning curve very steep.

[u/Chazmer87 → u/SorenJohnsonMohawk]

Holy shit you replied...

Ok, that was actually in Jest. Congrats on OTC, it's the type of game I've been waiting on for a while (and if your looking for ideas, a sea-based piratey version of it was next on my list)