Gamedata

Genre:	grand strategy/economy sim
Recommended Age:	PEGI 12
Status:	Release: 25.September 2015
Platform:	PC, PS4
Developer:	Gaming Minds Studios
Publisher:	Kalypso Media

Gameplay

In Grand Ages : Medieval you start as an major of a town, who uses trade and settlers, to build up an economic stable system, from which on the player can also use military and diplomacy to be emperor over Europe.

You as a player will set up profitable trade routes,  bound with other emperors, research advantageous technologies and take over opponents city by city either by military or peaceful negotiation. The user can learn the game in the 10 hour tutorial campaign, or challenge himself and up to seven other human players in the open game.

My tasks

As for the game design, I provided many usability and late game adjustments to provide long-term motivation in an open game. Furthermore I was conceiving after release content, and was involved into the transfer from the idea to the concept and implementation.

On the other hand, I was part of the small in house quality assurance team of 4 to 5 men, in which I was testing for all kind of bugs and brought the game through the Sony submission for PS4.

Awards

Deutscher Entwickler Preis 2015: Bestes Game Design 2015
German Developers Award 2015: Best Game Design 2015