Magnate: The First City
You're on the phone to the real estate agent talking about this great piece of land near a school and park, which would be ideal to develop into modern housing.
You're on the phone to the real estate agent talking about this great piece of land near a school and park, which would be ideal to develop into modern housing.
Inside the brewery, the mash and lauter tuns hum away happily on one side, as the brew kettle bubbles silently on the other.
The sun is high in the sky, shining directly down onto Main Street in this ramshackle town of wooden buildings.
It is with a sense of deja vu that you desperately type into the console in front of you in a frantic attempt to contact your colleague who, like yourself, has locked themselves into one of the bays on this vast manmade construct.
As witches fly overhead, giants stomp around the wastelands, swarmlings huddle in swamps, chaos magicians cause, well, chaos, halflings burrow the plains and engineers build their bridges from their mountains, you roll up your carpet and prepare to continue through the desert in your nomad way.
Strolling along the parterres, taking in the view of the stepped garden to one side and the water garden on the other, you relax and try to fully appreciate the immensity of this Wonder of the world.
As you will know by now, UK Games Expo 2019 is just around the corner - a week on Friday, to be precise.
The rain is relentless, pouring down in heavy sheets, making the city outside your office window appear like it is behind net curtains.
Imagine the asteroid field scene from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, where our heroes risk their lives to try to get away by entering an asteroid field, then add the AI HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which has gone mad and taken over the spaceship, forcing the crew to try and outwit it - and you basically end up with the gameplay of Sensor Ghosts, the new game by Wren Games, due to launch on Kickstarter on 28 May.
UK Games Expo 2019 is around the corner now.