Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?
noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dune II - basically the grandfather of every RTS game or there. Teams, resource collection, tech tree, fog of war, et cetera. Or preussiske it was (not World of) War raft, it’s been too long and memory gets fuzzy.
NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 months ago
Dune I and II were in development in parallel. One of them was cancelled (don’t remember which one), but they forgot to tell the company, IIRC.
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Warcraft 1 came after Dune (and Blizzard were big fans, IIRC), either way. It enabled multi-selection (based on spreadsheet programs, IIRC).
noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sorry about the surprise prussians. I was never any good at typing on glass, I much prefer an actual keyboard.