'I worked for like 15 years on just Hearts of Iron and history, so you want to do something different' — Afterworld director explains the fantasy post-apocalyptic setting, and the pub trip that inspired the game
- Afterworld is the first Paradox grand strategy game with an original fantasy setting in a decade
- Director Dan Lind says this brings a level of "design freedom" that would be possible in few real-world settings
- He also wanted "to do something different" after working on historical games for so long
The recently revealed Afterworld stands apart from the rest of the recent Paradox Games portfolio. It's the studio's first title in a decade to take place in an original fictional setting, this time post-apocalyptic North America, rather than a real-world historical one.
The game is being directed by studio veteran Dan Lind, who has been working at Paradox for almost twenty years. He started out on Europa Universalis 3, working his way up to eventually become game director of the supremely popular Hearts of Iron 4 — a massive-scale WW2 sim.
In an interview with TechRadar Gaming at the...
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