From AoH3 modding to developing my own grand strategy game
I've been making and sharing AoH3 mods for a while, and working with the game taught me a lot about what I enjoy and what I wish I could change in grand strategy games.
Eventually I reached the point where some of the ideas I wanted to make went beyond what I could realistically do through AoH3 modding.
So I've decided to stop working on my AoH3 mods and take a pretty big risk: I'm starting development on my own grand strategy game from scratch.
A lot of its design ideas come from the things I learned while modding AoH3, although I'm not trying to make an AoH clone. I want to build something with deeper mechanics while keeping the accessibility that originally made me enjoy AoH.
Since this is the community where I started sharing my work, I wanted to share the transition here too.
For people who play/mod AoH3: what mechanics do you think a game like AoH gets right, and what would you most want to see done differently in a new grand strategy game?