Master of Magic is a wildly different experience from Master of Orion, enough so that one would scarcely guess it to have come from the same designer.
In reality, though, such could hardly be further from the truth. Given the new game’s title and its short development cycle, one might suspect it to be little more than a reskinned Master of Orion.
If there’s no rest for the wicked, it would seem that Barcia and company had been very bad indeed. It would ship under the MicroProse imprint in time for the Christmas of 1994, only a year after its predecessor, despite being one of the most complex strategy games yet made for a computer. Within two weeks, they were charging full-speed ahead on Master of Magic. As soon as the one game was finished, he wrote up a design document for the next one and shared it with the rest of the SimTex staff. While he was waiting for his latest iteration of Master of Orion to compile each day in the cramped Austin, Texas, offices of his company SimTex, he sketched in the mental details of a follow-up that would take place in a fantasy rather than science-fictional milieu. A Twenty-minute comedic extravaganza which he has presented at MAGIC Live, The Magic Castle and The International Magic Convention in London England.Īlso included is a dated but still loaded with possibilities Selected Card in Flip PhoneĪ Smash and Stab Routine involving paper lunch sacks and a Christmas decorationĪ Game Show themed presentation for the Classic Glass and Ribbon Penetration FrameĪ Sponge Ball version of Dracula and the Sorority GirlsĪ soon to be outdated as well but still neat as hell Card in CD impossible locationĪ in the hands of the spectator version of the 20th Century Silks which Gene Anderson put in his act for a time.Steve Barcia started thinking about his second grand-strategy game well before he had finished creating his first one.
Included is his now signature Coin in Bottle routine. Not that he works all that much these days. Still an enjoyable romp through some of Master Paynes more curious conjuring’s.Īs Tricks You Might Just Be Able To Do is a quirky compendium of Eight routines from Master Payne’s working repertoire. Not quite as fun to read as Master Payne’s first book Sometime the Jokes are Just for Me.
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