The new mobile strategy game lets players lead their own civilization from the Stone Age to the Space Age. Now he and Train are back doing strategy.
But at Zynga, he veered off into casual games such as FrontierVille and CityVille 2. For his whole career, Reynolds focused on PC strategy games. After a while, Reynolds branched out more and more to do his own thing, including leaving Meier’s company, Firaxis, and starting Big Huge Games in 2000. Reynolds and Train got their start working for game design wizard Sid Meier. Reynolds and Train rebuilt their studio in Baltimore, and they signed up Nexon M, a mobile-focused division of Tokyo-based Nexon, as a publisher. In re-acquiring the Big Huge Games brand, Reynolds and Train tapped into the nostalgia for those strategy games of yore. Big Huge Games made Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, for 38 Studios. In 2014, they created a startup studio and bought their former name, Big Huge Games - formerly a PC game studio that made real-time strategy games Rise of Nations and Rise of Legends - after the state of Rhode Island auctioned it off last fall in the wake of the collapse of Curt Schilling’s company, 38 Studios. They most recently worked in game design roles at the Baltimore-based Zynga East studio, until the publisher shut it down in 2013.
Reynolds and Train veered off the track of history games for a time.
