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Ahead of Gamescom, we had the chance to speak with Kristen Pirillo, Senior Game Designer at World\u2019s Edge to uncover why the studio and its partners are poised to deliver a much-anticipated \u2013 and incredibly comprehensive \u2013 refresh of a classic that could otherwise have been destined to be remembered only by a select few.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Age of Mythology<\/em> has been left alone for over two decades, Pirillo shares that there\u2019s a smaller, but deeply passionate community of players still actively invested in the game: \u201cThis interest sets Age of Mythology<\/em> apart from a lot of other games. It may be the least talked about, but it also has the highest brainworm potential.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe Age of Mythology<\/em> crowd is just particularly passionate and incredibly inventive \u2013 it was just a matter of waiting for the right time, and using all of the learnings from other Age titles.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Age of Mythology: Retold<\/em>, at its heart, aims to be the game that these fans have been asking for \u2013 a faithful recreation of the original, with all the quality-of-life changes that modern development can offer. Retold <\/em>called for an ambitious vision \u2013 the team really wanted to lean into the larger-than-life elements of huge mythological armies, monsters, and bombastic God Powers in a way that were previously limited by the tech of the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n This is immediately evident in the game\u2019s visual design, especially when comparing unit models from the original game to their shiny new versions in Retold<\/em>. The art team had a strong vision of what the game should look like \u2013 epic proportions, atmospheric worlds, and of course, horrible monsters. Pirillo describes this process using the Argus as an example, an Atlantean monster unit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIn Age of Mythology<\/em>, it\u2019s just a rough sphere with some tentacles, but in Retold<\/em>, we can do so much more,\u201d Pirillo shares. \u201cNow it\u2019s got a ton of eyeballs that all move independently, it slithers around, and it\u2019s just kind of gross. But the idea is we want to amp everything up and really maximize the mythology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n