Ascendancy II is (Maybe) Coming

Two years ago, in the early days of this blog, I wrote a post about Ascendancy II. It was in part a celebration of Ascendancy, the people who created it, and the immense role the game played in my childhood… and in the other part it was a vaguely bitter and definitely melodramatic rant about The Logic Factory saying they might develop the sequel to Ascendancy on a platform I had no access to. So — pretty on par with the quality and professionalism you should expect from the first year or so of my blogging career. Here’s the weird

Ascendancy II Is Coming

(This post is from 2012. I’ve written more recently about Ascendancy II, which you can read here.) Never (I won’t say in a million years, but maybe a hundred) would I have anticipated writing this post before the one about the original Ascendancy. Ascendancy is one of my all-time favorite games, one of the most influential experiences in my life, and a defining moment of my childhood. To say that Ascendancy, and by extension, The Logic Factory, is dear to me is an understatement of near-criminal magnitude. So, of course, I was planning a long love-fest of a post on