“I have to say that Unity is one of the things that allowed Amplitude to exist,” says Girard. Unity played a central role in the game, as well as the studio’s subsistence. “Endless Legend is a much more ambitious game, so naturally some of its features-the terrain, animated characters-are more complex to develop.” “The difference is that now they’re more experienced, and the team has grown slightly in size compared to Endless Space,” says CEO Mathieu Girard. The team behind Endless Legend is essentially the same core team that was behind Endless Space. Where space is mostly empty, however, the planet of Endless Legend is crawling with life-a huge consideration in terms of both gameplay and, for the team, production. “That may sound a bit megalomanic, but in Endless Legend it just sounds like everyday life.”Įndless Legend is essentially a fantasy civilization game-close, in many aspects, to the studio’s previous title, Endless Space, and certainly inspired by it. “We wanted to control big fantasy armies, deal with the politics of our kingdoms and rule the world,” says de Waubert. Later on, reading books and seeing movies like The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, de Waubert and his team’s desire to live out an epic adventure as the leader of a fantasy realm continued to grow, until they eventually gained enough inspiration to buckle down on their own project. The game promised great things-taking command of a fantasy empire, for one, and conquering the world with it. “A long time ago, we were big fans of a game called Master of Magic,” says Amplitude Studios creative director Romain de Waubert.

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