Brandon "Wayward" Casteel

Game designer specializing in Real Time Strategy and Tactics games. Obsessed with competitive strategy game design. Happily married and proud dad of 4 kids.

Re-sharing my Tempest Rising Interview

Earlier this year, I did an interview with a Russian-speaking game magazine about Tempest Rising and the RTS landscape in 2023. I wanted to re-share that interview here for posterity.

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What Are We Fighting For? Winning and Victory Conditions in RTS

An exploration of how RTS are won, why the default win condition is so hard to top, and how some games try to solve the problem of what it means to win and lose.