By The 14th Brigade and Beyond Alpha Centauri. Initially posted on Beyond Alpha Centauri(Part of Apoylton as of January 1999)

What is this anyway?
"Focus on Firaxis: A Look Inside the Company" is an inside look, via interviews, at the company that brought the world a little closer to the Civil War through Sid Meier's Gettysburg! and is now taking us to the stars through their latest work, Sid Meier's Alpha Canturi. SMAC, which is the subject of this web site, is a turn based game similar to Civilization and will be released by Firaxis sometime in 1998. These interviews, done in February and March of 1998, were meant to give you a closer look at the minds that make up Firaxis.

Questions about Firaxis' present, past and future

To the Interviews...

Company Founders

Jeff Briggs, BMOC (Big Man on Campus)
Brian Reynolds, Designer for Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Sid Meier, Designer for Sid Meier's Gettysburg!

Artists and Animators

Jerome Atherholt, Artist/Animator
Mike Bazzell, Artist/Animator
Greg Foertsch, Artist/Animator

Programmers and Designers

Tim Train, Producer/Designer
Mike Ely, Programmer/Designer (kinda)

People that don't fit into the above categories

David Evans, Sound Stud
Lindsay Riehl, Marketing
Susan Brookins, Master of the Miscellaneous

Thanks...

Thanks to all the employees of Firaxis that took time from their busy schedules to answer the questions. Special thanks go to Lindsay Reihl at Firaxis for helping to set this whole thing up and acting as a middleman (middlewoman, whatever). Thanks go to Susan Brookins for listening to me whine. Thanks also go to Mike Ely for being the super cool guy that he is. And of course thanks to the Gamestats Family for supporting this web site.