The German version of the MotherBoard, the technology channel from Vice.com, has an article on how the Command & Conquer franchise is still supported by avid gamers, almost 23 years after the release of its first game. Or, it should be something like that, since my german knowledge is extremely limited and I'm practically a slave of Google Translator for those things.
Anyway, the article is: "Deshalb sind Gamer auch nach 23 Jahren noch von 'Command & Conquer' besessen".
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It features some of the C&C community survivors, including Twisted Insurrection, OpenRA and, yea, Project Perfect Mod as well. The author of the article, Christian Huberts, has interviewed several prominent community members such as Aro, pchote and yours trully. There were other community members that I could not recognize there yet.
The article shows the author's perspective on how the franchise impacts the RTS genre, attracts its fans and that C&C Rivals was not exactly the kind of game that fans were expecting for the franchise at this point. He explains his own point of view on how the C&C franchise derailed with the end of Westwood Studios and almost closed for good with Tiberian Twilight. It also shows how modders are still keeping it alive regardless of the awkward management from EA.
If your German is just as bad as mine, check it out the Google Translated version here. Bear in mind that Google Translation always has limitations and it may put some ideas out of place or add a couple of things that may not make as much sense as the original article. I.e.: OpenRA is not developed at PPM. But we have forums where we help modders, we have tutorials, post news about this engine, etc.
And... check the replies/comments of this news for an interesting bonus.
Anyway, the article is: "Deshalb sind Gamer auch nach 23 Jahren noch von 'Command & Conquer' besessen".
It features some of the C&C community survivors, including Twisted Insurrection, OpenRA and, yea, Project Perfect Mod as well. The author of the article, Christian Huberts, has interviewed several prominent community members such as Aro, pchote and yours trully. There were other community members that I could not recognize there yet.
The article shows the author's perspective on how the franchise impacts the RTS genre, attracts its fans and that C&C Rivals was not exactly the kind of game that fans were expecting for the franchise at this point. He explains his own point of view on how the C&C franchise derailed with the end of Westwood Studios and almost closed for good with Tiberian Twilight. It also shows how modders are still keeping it alive regardless of the awkward management from EA.
If your German is just as bad as mine, check it out the Google Translated version here. Bear in mind that Google Translation always has limitations and it may put some ideas out of place or add a couple of things that may not make as much sense as the original article. I.e.: OpenRA is not developed at PPM. But we have forums where we help modders, we have tutorials, post news about this engine, etc.
And... check the replies/comments of this news for an interesting bonus.