Backbone Entertainment Wins Award for Work on Age of Empires |
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Backbone Entertainment Vancouver was recently awarded at the Canadian Awards for Electronic and Entertainment Arts for the company's work on Age of Empires: The Age of Kings for the Nintendo DS. The game won Best Game Design of the Year.As if that isn't enough, the game also picked up a nomination from the BAFTA game awards for best strategy game.
If you do a quick search on the game, you'll see that Age of Empires: Age of Kings got a lot of love from game-reviewers. It's well deserved since the turn-based game delivered hours and hours of deep and involving strategic fun. Five campaigns, unique technologies, dozens of unit types that are both useful and not that redundant, good music, decent presentation, what more could you want?
Well yeah, the game isn't that popular, but design-wise, it's a winner. Congratulations, Backbone. You guys deserve it.
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Yes, the game was decent. But, not award winning in terms of design and innovation. How did this game win over the likes of Trauma Center, Starfox DS, and Animal Crossing?(which btw accesses the net and updates parts of itself in it's design.)
A better contender for this class of game would have been a game that has not even been released yet.
The game is: Disciples for the DS.
People who like this type of game were really looking forward to Disciples for the DS. And, if they could have ported it keeping most of it's animations, campaigns, and the scenario editor, along with the ability to swap maps online and play online, THAT would have been award winning design. Not a diluted port of a 5 year old pc game.
Perhaps because they made a 5 year old port refreshingly enjoyable... you never know with these award giving bodies anyway.
I do agree with you, Trauma Center is better than this. Maybe it's because Trauma Center isn't Canadian?
Thanks for your great analysis.