Creative Assembly isn't won over by the latest generation of real-time strategy games. "They're like 'RTS-lite' or 'My First Strategy Game,' but that's not what fans of the genre demand," says Stormrise product manager Vispi Bhopti.
The goal with the veteran studio's latest offering is to make a deep and involving real-time strategy title, but with a control system that doesn't oversimplify or limit what you can do, which some could accuse the otherwise excellent Tom Clancy's EndWar of doing. "We have a control system called Wheel Select that is actually faster in some circumstances - and in most situations as fast - as a mouse and keyboard," Bhopti tells OXM.
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Kim Sellentin, Producer behind Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms at SEGA Studios Australia, discusses her start as a QA tester, her approach of cultivating a learning culture in the studio, and strategies for current and future producers.
