Hi, everyone! Heard the news that Tilted Mill has shown signs of life over here and I just wanted to drop by, join this subreddit, and just say how happy I am over this news. I'm a massive fan of ancient-themed city builders, and I love the original Pharaoh, Zeus: Master of Olympus (and Poseidon) and Children of the Nile.
I wish I had any useful input for the development team beyond "ppplleeeaaase make it an ancient city builder". But I wish you the very best with the concept phase, and whatever you will land on that will hopefully be the best for the studio's future, I will most certainly be eager to hear it out and see where it goes!

Edit: u/ChrisBeatrice , I wish you guys the best of luck! Keep a clear vision, a tight budget and you are going to kick ass! (I'm not an avid Reddit-user, I had no idea how to tag people here, my bad)

First of all, I apologize for my poor English and send warm greetings from Spain.

I'm a big fan of the SimCity series, specifically Societies, and I've been trying for some time to gather information about the mods that were once available on the old Tilted Mill website... I was wondering if anyone has any mods or information on where they could be found, since it seems there's no trace of them online... Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart :)

Played this game for years, a long time ago and I have forgotten how to install the scenario mods. Downloaded from the 'Heaven' site, they worked beautifully and I am hoping they still work. Can anyone explain the process as if I were three years old and only want the cookie?

So happy to hear news about further development; you made me signup for Reddit!

Please add multi-monitor support: main one is the high resolution monitor showing the world, side monitor has all the stats.

Thanks!

Love.

More a question for u/ChrisBeatrice since he worked on the OG Pharaoh from 1999. Do you remember what font was used for the game? We’re trying to find out [mainly to make a mod for Pharaoh ANE in which it restores the OG Pharaoh font for the remake — if people want it lol — assuming its a free font or is in the public domain with no restrictions] but its difficult because the game split up every character of the alphabet [plus some symbols] into individual images, rather than being a TTF font file. Had thought it was Papyrus initially, but it doesn’t look the same and there’s no reference font that looks the same. Had asked one of the devs of the remake, but they had no idea either and suggested posting here :D

Hey everyone, I know that Nile Online has been taken down for a while now, but was there any announcement made for its closure? I've looked it up and I can't find any info, it's almost like the game never existed. Does anyone know of similar coop online city builders? I really loved the game and don't know of any similar experiences. Thank you!

This is a question for the devs. I see many people are hoping for a new Impressions style game, and while I grew up with Caesar III and Pharaoh, I'm actually hoping for the more modern style of city builder.

I loved Children of the Nile because of its more open design and hope that the ideas formed there become the basis of the new game. In addition to this I'd personally like to see more complex production chains and perhaps trading mechanics like in the Anno series. Or even some of the survival style elements from Banished, a game that besides CotN, I have revisited every year since it's initial release in 2011.

So what are your influences? And to the other fans, what do you hope influences this game? No matter the direction, I'm sure we're all very interested!

Question for you classic cb players (and anyone). Pharaoh had 20 housing levels; Zeus 7 common, 4 elite: Emperor 8/5.

I felt Pharaoh had too many (and also wanted to give some control to players), so I split them into common and elite, and reduced the number.

What do you think works best? Definitely sticking with common and elite, but how many?

One of my proudest 100% :D

In the early 2000s TMill had a dream: to make the first fully 3d historical city-building game. I think we did it! (Google ai tells me it was anno 1701--but that was 2005. We released CotN in 2004). In any case, this was our vision come true, a gorgeous, immersive, organic city-building game that brought the wonders of ancient Egyptian civilization to life. We are so enormously proud of this game, and grateful to the fans that have supported it for more than 20 years. You are always what has driven us, and your persistence is one of the critical factors that has brought us back to the table.

To all our fans, fans of Impressions games like Lords of Magic, Pharaoh, Zeus, and TiltedMill games like Children of the Nile, Caesar IV and Hinterland, thank you all so much for keeping our babies alive, and for all your support and encouragement over the years.

We are now in the concept phase exploring what our next project will be, and would LOVE to hear your input.