That’s kind of the biggest difference and manifests itself in many ways as well. It was a very very different approach- "let’s make sure everything we have up to this point is the best possible thing that we can make." We need to make the best Age II possible.
But then when the definitive editions were made it was more than "OK, let's bring back Age II." That’s actually the whole project goal from within Microsoft and from us as well.
We brought more content because there was clearly a demand from the community. What did you see as the tentpoles for a definitive edition? What were sort of the project goals of that that separated it from previous HD editions you’ve done?īack in the HD edition, the main goal was "let’s bring Age of Empires back to the players." There were a lot of players who hadn’t played the original, there were no CD players on laptops, for example. That was kind of the goal for the HD edition, to bring it back to the players.Īnd it kind of grew on that. After the launch of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, lead developer Bert Beeckman dropped by the GDC Twitch channel to discuss the process of revamping this series, and what considerations were needed to add new civilizations to the game.īeeckman and his colleagues at Forgotten Empires are a team of former modders who organized as a studio after their mods to the Age of Empires games took off and caught the attention of Microsoft. If you've ever wondered about how a team of modders could take up the mantle of developing Age of Empires, here's some insight from Beeckman on the process.
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