Faced with new tech, expanding audiences, and a changing medium, game developers are reimagining the strategy genre.
Porting is therefore more straightforward, and consoles are better equipped to handle whatever’s brought over. “The power of the console and how it’s improved over the years makes developing something like a strategy game easier,” says Dennis Ries, executive producer on. With hundreds of interactable AI units appearing onscreen and rolling systems working in the background, strategy games often demand a lot from the hardware.
Yet the strategy genre is more peculiar still. Not only dense with systems, mechanics and menus, some of the most popular strategy games are as kinetic as the biggest first-person shooters. Mouse and keyboard, then, has long been the preferred way of interacting with them, and porting them to consoles has the added difficulty of making their controls compatible with the limited inputs and precision of a gamepad.
, there’s been a “maturity in the language of controller use” among both players and developers. “Even if you go back to PS3 or 360 games now, the modern sense of how you would use a controller, it’s just not there,” he says, pointing to the way players now expect by default to use shoulder bumpers to switch menu tabs and press the left analog stick to make their character sprint.
“Whether your game is on PC or console, for me the platform is a design tool to keep me honest,” Foertsch says. “If you design with the input method in mind, I think you're going to end up with a more accessible game in general, because it's going to focus your thought, it's going to really make you put a lot of effort into how the player interacts with the game.
. While at first glance it looks like a fantasy RTS in the standard vein, it involves minimal base building and virtually no resource systems, minimizing the back-and-forth precision that can be cumbersome to pull off without a mouse.
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