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Napoleon: Total War SDK "in the near future"
Posted: 13.12.2010 16:24 by Joe Robinson Comments: 2
Modders rejoice! Creative Assembly has confirmed that they will be releasing a set of modding tools for Napoleon: Total War "in the near future".

The news came out during Strategy Informer's interview with Total War: Shogun 2's Lead Designer Jamie Ferguson, where we asked him why the relationship with the modding community had been a bit rocky recently.

"Yeah it wasn't something that was ever intentional," he said.

"I think we kind off... you know sometimes you can upset your friends without meaning to. What we were trying to do was create a game that would run faster but at the same time was moving things forward and looking good. I think the unintentional result of that was that in some ways it was harder to mod."

He then went on to reveal the developer's plans for releasing an SDK for Napoleon.

"But we are planning to launch an SDK for Napoleon in the near future, we want people to know we're not abandoning our old games. We want people to continue playing them as well as Shogun. We want people to constantly look at Total War as a continuing on-going experience. It's not like when we move on they have to move on and not touch it again."

We couldn't pin them down on an exact time-table, and when asked as to whether an SDK for Shogun 2 was also in the works, he was equally as vague:

"I wouldn't rule it out. I don't know when or in what form that would take, but it's something we will probably be looking at as well," Ferguson commented.

Total War: Shogun 2 is due out on March 15th 2011. Don't forget to check out the rest of the interview, as well as our hands-on preview.

Comments

By RaviL (SI Core Member) on Dec 13, 2010
RaviL
Cant wait for a SDK to come for this game maybe they will think of adding an SKD to Total War: Shogun2 in the near or distant future.
This will one a hole new horizon for the moding community, the possibilities would be almost infinite .
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Dec 13, 2010
herodotus
About time too as the modding scene for the game is almost dead, and it's crying for more content. This just might end up being the ultimate Napoleonic Strat-fest that it should have been.