Adrien Briatta Interview: Dune Spice Wars
Shiro Games' latest title Dune: Spice Wars combines 4X and real-time strategy elements to create an innovative new game set in the Dune universe. Now in early access, Dune: Spice Wars gives players their choice between leading House Atreides, House Harkonnen, the Fremen, or Smugglers as they vie for control of Arrakis, and expands upon the RTS ideas presented in Dune II. The game was first announced during the 2021 Game Awards, and comes from the same studio that created the Norse mythology RTS title Northgard and open-world RPG Wartales.
Dune: Spice Wars draws more inspiration from Frank Herbert's books rather than Dune's film adaptations, and prides itself on letting players create their own stories while still existing within the world of the IP. The game is slightly more 4X than RTS — although players will participate in real-time battles, they also have the option to pause at any time to consider their strategy and will need to focus on things like territory control, forming political alliances, and money making if they want to succeed. The game has recently added a multiplayer mode that allows player versus player competition, and in the future there are plans to add features like a House creation system which will allow players to customize their experience even further.
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Shiro Games' Head of Marketing and Publishing Adrien Briatta sat down with Screen Rant to discuss what players can expect from Dune: Spice Wars in terms of its combat and strategy, as well as the game's development and design process and what's in store for the title in the future.
I'm very excited to talk about bringing Duneto life in this new way, through a real-time strategy 4x approach,
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