So that’s how it started, and I’ve been at it for far longer than I expected – as games development tends to be! So I switched gears, thought about games I liked and what I really wanted to play, and started making Banished. About eight or nine months into development, I was building kind of a zombie action-RPG type game, but there were too many zombie games out there and what I was making wasn’t fun. I had some money saved up to do this, so I left and started making… actually not Banished, but a different game. The last one, which you may or may not have heard of, was Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, and I was a graphic programmer on that.Īfter 10 years of doing that, I decided I wanted to do more than graphics and tools, and struck out on my own.

I worked in the games industry for about 10 years at a company called Vicious Cycle Software and I shipped 15 or 17 games, over the course of the 10 years with them. But could you tell us a little bit more about yourself? IncGamers: Thanks for taking the time to talk to us! I want to know a little bit more about you and the project you’ve been working on, which is called Banished, and which is effectively a city builder. To learn more about this promising title, IncGamers had a lengthy chat with the one man (and a music guy) development team behind Banished, Luke Hodorowicz. It’s looking a little bit Settlers and a little bit SimCity but with more forests and the chance of horrible plague. That means self-sufficient farming, resource gathering and a keen knowledge of how to survive in the hostile wilderness. The inhabitants of your settlement-in-waiting have been chucked out of their home city and must now make their living in the woods.

Banished is a forthcoming city-building strategy title in which people are your main resource.

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