![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Q: How did the concept for Solitairica come about?ĬLINT: This is going to sound nuts, but when Unreal first announced it would license the engine to everyone a while back, Joe and I joked that we should make a totally badass hyper realistic solitaire game on Unreal. With a compelling premise and lots of promise for future growth, I reached out to Righteous Hammer’s Creative Director Clint Jorgenson and Technical Director Joe Van Zeipel to discover more about the recently-released project’s path from concept to completion. By using a variety of magical items and powerful spells, players are tasked with battling their way through a horde of ever-changing enemies in an attempt to defeat the horrible Emperor Stuck. Well, Righteous Hammer’s Solitairica seeks to answer this question by taking RPG combat and challenging roguelike progression to a fresh new place - the world of solitaire. But with hundreds (if not thousands) of solitaire games and apps already available to consumers, how would a developer go about delivering something fresh that truly differentiates itself from the crowd? This made solitaire more accessible, popular and fun to play than ever.While solitaire has been a gaming staple around the world since the mid-18th century, the digital age has brought about the opportunity to experience the classic card game in all-new ways. The computer shuffles the cards, lays them out and you can start again at the click of a button. In the 1980’s the first computerized version was created which people could play on their home computers. Hundreds of books were written describing hundreds of different kinds of solitaire (thousands if you include minor variations). Over that time there was a boom of new solitaire games created. The next significant period on the solitaire timeline is the mid to late twentieth century. Prince Albert was known to be a fan and by the late nineteenth century English rulebooks describing solitaire games began to be published. By the mid-nineteenth century solitaire had become a popular past-time in France and it was around this time it began to spread to England too. …(continued) If you are British you may have heard Solitaire being referred to as “Patience” and the French are also known to call it “Reussite” (that is French for “Success”). ![]()
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