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A few years ago, Matt Hall, the 39-year-old co-creator of the enormously successful Crossy Road, was a struggling, unprofitable video games developer living on an Australian sheep farm owned by his parents, chasing a dream of success that had come true for some friends but eluded him.He’d formed a studio, named KlickTock, which he called a “one-man-band game development company dedicated to making games for everyone.” It led to titles with names like Little Things, Doodle Find, Super Search 60 and Zonr. Before that, he worked at Big Ant Studios and Tantalus Interactive, both names in the Australian development scene.
Sid Meier’s Civilization series is leaving home.This fall on Linux, Mac and Windows PC for $49.99, Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth will take the strategy game beyond the confines of its home turf to an alien world that players will colonize and where they will forge a new future of humanity.Polygon spoke with four of the upcoming game’s developers to learn about the game, the challenges a new venture like this poses for those creating it and how escaping Earth’s gravitational pull will change the long running series.
