Will there be a Dominions 4

[Gandalf Parker]

Heehee. Kristoffer does an amazing job of offering us variety. And thats while operating within some limits (known religio/mythology). Can you see what would happen if you turned him loose with NO restrictions such as alien lifeforms?

[Sir_Dr_D]

Morkilus said:
Dominions 3 is perfect. Where could they go to next... Dominions in SPAAAACE?

Maybe we could visit R'lyeys home world.

[S.R. Krol]

Gandalf Parker said:
Heehee. Kristoffer does an amazing job of offering us variety. And thats while operating within some limits (known religio/mythology). Can you see what would happen if you turned him loose with NO restrictions such as alien lifeforms?

I think you'd be looking at potentially the greatest space 4x game ever! Imagine just applying the core Dominions stats in a SF setting...60+ alien races, 1500+ technology tree items, hundreds of starships, multiple tech ages...

[Sir_Dr_D]

A fantasy setting interests me a lot more. Magic appeals more to the imagination, and having heroes and commanding living troops gives more of a humanistic feeling. Commanding star ships is more science and logic then imagination, and gives you less of a connection with your troops. That is just my preference.

Christopher being a history person would be more likely to make another fantasy game I believe.

[S.R. Krol]

Ah, but what's that famous quote from Arther C. Clarke?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

So there you go, a SF Dominions could be the equivalent of a new fantasy title.

[Sir_Dr_D]

Hmmm. So that means that all those dominion spells can get accomplished scientifically. Lets pick a spell. Flaming Arrows --> Get burning pitch. Tip arrows in pitch. Shoot arrow at target. See target burn. There! A high tech scietific approach to a dominions spell. perhaps you have a point.

[HoneyBadger]

If you have enough imagination, and enough of a grasp of scope, you really find that fantasy boils down to one thing-anachronism. Fantasy-even Dominions fantasy-is basically just the trappings of various cultures, seen through the eyes of wishful thinkers who want the distortions of myth and storytelling, to be real.

Soooo...there's no reason at all that you can't have "future-anacronistic" fantasy, as opposed to "past-anachronistic" fantasy.

Look at Lovecraft: big influence on Dominions 3, and fantasy (through his friend R A Howard, of Conan fame), and he mixed fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres freely, and did so from an original mythos-base.

Personally, I think that Dominions 3 has only barely scratched the surface.

[weimaar]

Sorry for digging up an old post. Is there any news about whether it will be a Dominions 4 in the near future or not? Please illwinter. This game has potential. Didnt you guys earn enough with Dominions 3? Youve now built up a fanbase, so why "throw it" away?

[Dedas]

Read the posts from Johan and Kristoffer in this thread:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...t=6#Post579651
to get some understanding of why they are making this game.

[Endoperez]

As far as I know:

1) The Dominions engine has grown over about ten years, and is too big of a mess for major changes.

2) Illwinter guys do this for fun, and Johan (the programmer) works long days with computers on his main job.

Because I don't think Johan would enjoy working 20/7, half on his work and half on updating the Dominions engine, I don't think there will be another game based on it. I hope Illwinter will continue making games, and because I've liked all four games of Illwinter I've played (Dom:PPP, II and 3, and CoE2), I think I'd also like it, even if it wasn't Dominions.


3) An unnamed, non-Dominions 3 related project exists.

Kristoffer O said:A bit further since last time, but I've been slightly preoccupied lately. Most of my energy has gone into school (or rather sleeping when returning home from school) and recently our other IW project. I'm a bit stuck Dom3-wise, waiting for the crashed computers to be restored to enable patchwork again. I have done some map-work while waiting. Added shades under most forests and smoothed mountain edges.

See this post. It could be anything from paying taxes to buying Bioware, although the latter one would've failed now that Vivendi out-did their offer.