{"id":1212557,"date":"2023-12-18T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212557"},"modified":"2023-12-18T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:00:15","slug":"an-interview-with-cities-skylines-2-developers-ceo-mariina-hallikainen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212557","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Cities: Skylines 2 developer\u2019s CEO, Mariina Hallikainen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen, from the company’s “Winter Recap” video. (credit: Colossal Order\/Paradox Interactive\/YouTube)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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It’s not often you see the CEO of a developer suggest their game is “cursed” in an official, professionally produced video, let alone a video released to celebrate that game. But Colossal Order is not a typical developer. And Cities: Skylines 2<\/em> has not had anything close to a typical release.<\/p>\n

In a “Winter Recap” video<\/a> up today for Cities: Skylines 2<\/a> (C:S2)<\/em>, CEO Mariina Hallikainen says that her company’s goal was to prevent the main issue they had with the original Cities: Skylines<\/em>: continuing work on a game that was “not a technical masterpiece” for 10 years or more. The goal with C:S2<\/em> was to use the very latest technology and build everything new.<\/p>\n

“We are trying to make a city-building game that will last for a decade,” Hallikainen says in the video. “People didn’t understand; we aren’t using anything from Cities: Skylines. <\/em>We’re actually building everything new.” Henri Haimakainen, game designer, says Colossal Order is “like fighting against ourselves, in a way. We are our own worst competition,” in trying to deliver not only the original game, but more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – An Interview with Cities: Skylines 2 developer\u2019s CEO, Mariina Hallikainen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enlarge \/ Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen, from the company’s “Winter Recap” video. (credit: Colossal Order\/Paradox Interactive\/YouTube) It’s not often you see the CEO of a developer suggest their game is “cursed” in an official, professionally produced video, let alone … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1212557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}