Not long ago I shared with you guys that I played and is replaying a game called Pharoah. It's a civilization building game which is similar to Zues, Settlers and Emperor which are all made by the same company. It's a city building game unlike Sim City but pretty easy to learn in nature.
I have to say I learned a lot throughout my adolescence's years of playing games. For example, I learned about the ancient religions of the Egyptians where various Gods are worshiped. Osiris, Ra, Ptah, Seth and Bast are a few that I can recall. I also learned that what are the basic needs of a society and rough idea how the a civilization evolves once a certain need has been satisfied. Architecturally, I learned how pyramid was built visually, though not exactly the real procedure, but it was no doubt helpful enough on how it came about. Did you know that pyramids are not first built a 100% steep and sharp like what we know?
The above is the first form of pyramid. It's not exactly very pretty, but it's made of pure plain stones with hundreds of thousand slaves' hard work.
Then, it evolved into a second form of pyramid which is shown above. It's made of limestone blocks in its outer layer and plain stone blocks as its core. it's not the true pyramid yet as the early architects still had problem with the foundation of the building somehow. Thus it looks more like a retarded pyramid if you ask me.
Next come the real thing. But I'm going to show you that it's a lot of hardwork for the Egyptians, especially the slaves to build it first.
As opposed to the image where the slaves were pulling 4 blocks at once, the blocks are actually pretty huge in real size and 1 of it requires at least half a dozen people to pull it. Then, upon brought to the site, a few stonemasons are required to lay the block in its rightful place with the right building connecting liquid (not sure if they have cement back then). As the monument grows higher, it will require carpenters to build ramps made out of wood. The higher it goes, the more wood it requires to ensure they can sustain the weight of the blocks getting pulled up there.
Upon laying the final block on the top of the pyramid, another task arise where stonemasons will have to carve out the blocks of stone to make the pyramid's outer layer look perfectly like a pyramid. Don't ask me how but that's what I understand from the game. Lol. I could have been fooled. *Shrugs*
Tada~ it's done.
Here's a sphinx as well.
My civilization built it and this one requires lots of wood for carpenters to use and cost a lot of stonemasons' lives. I know it's pretty ugly, but the deal is to show how a monument is built, alright? :)
I hope you enjoy the pictures because the process of building these monuments actually took quite awhile. Lol.
Loves playing good city building games
Robb
I have to say I learned a lot throughout my adolescence's years of playing games. For example, I learned about the ancient religions of the Egyptians where various Gods are worshiped. Osiris, Ra, Ptah, Seth and Bast are a few that I can recall. I also learned that what are the basic needs of a society and rough idea how the a civilization evolves once a certain need has been satisfied. Architecturally, I learned how pyramid was built visually, though not exactly the real procedure, but it was no doubt helpful enough on how it came about. Did you know that pyramids are not first built a 100% steep and sharp like what we know?
The above is the first form of pyramid. It's not exactly very pretty, but it's made of pure plain stones with hundreds of thousand slaves' hard work.
Then, it evolved into a second form of pyramid which is shown above. It's made of limestone blocks in its outer layer and plain stone blocks as its core. it's not the true pyramid yet as the early architects still had problem with the foundation of the building somehow. Thus it looks more like a retarded pyramid if you ask me.
Next come the real thing. But I'm going to show you that it's a lot of hardwork for the Egyptians, especially the slaves to build it first.
As opposed to the image where the slaves were pulling 4 blocks at once, the blocks are actually pretty huge in real size and 1 of it requires at least half a dozen people to pull it. Then, upon brought to the site, a few stonemasons are required to lay the block in its rightful place with the right building connecting liquid (not sure if they have cement back then). As the monument grows higher, it will require carpenters to build ramps made out of wood. The higher it goes, the more wood it requires to ensure they can sustain the weight of the blocks getting pulled up there.
Upon laying the final block on the top of the pyramid, another task arise where stonemasons will have to carve out the blocks of stone to make the pyramid's outer layer look perfectly like a pyramid. Don't ask me how but that's what I understand from the game. Lol. I could have been fooled. *Shrugs*
Tada~ it's done.
Here's a sphinx as well.
My civilization built it and this one requires lots of wood for carpenters to use and cost a lot of stonemasons' lives. I know it's pretty ugly, but the deal is to show how a monument is built, alright? :)
I hope you enjoy the pictures because the process of building these monuments actually took quite awhile. Lol.
Loves playing good city building games
Robb
6 comments:
eh, nice game la...its been a long long time since ive played these 'building cities' game... :D
nice game..
reminds me of age of empires.. haha.. =D
I wanna play~~~
i used to play this game when i was in high school. really liked it. there's a Chinese civilization version of this game as well. i think it's called emperor or something.
Nice, it looks nice. Thanks for sharing the knowledge on how the pyramid was built. FYI, I also have been playing "city building" games like Caesar 3 and it is very addictive, I tell you. Can take me even the whole day to play this. I don't know how addictive this game is.
That's a pretty cool game! Can you wage war?
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