GMT Games announces GMT ONE

Here is the latest from the GMT Games monthly newsletter and it includes some great news from the solitaire front, something I have lobbied about for a while!

We are proud, then, to announce an in-house development studio dedicated to enabling Solitaire gamers to enjoy the wide variety of multiplayer games that GMT publishes: GMT One. Some of you may have noticed the GMT One logo on the front of the Tru'ng Bot Update Kit for Fire in the Lake.

GMT One will help bridge the gap in knowledge and experience between our multiplayer designers and the skills and techniques used to craft Solitaire experiences and support these designers in creating top-notch designs. Our design group includes the designers who built the Solitaire systems in Tank Duel and Gandhi, and we will partner with designers like John Butterfield, Mark Herman, Volko Ruhnke, Harold Buchanan, Mike Bertucelli, and others to create best-in-industry Solitaire experiences for you.

Today, we are very happy to announce two new games with GMT One solo systems: Prime Minister and In the Shadows. Both of these games include simple, card-based Solitaire systems which enable the player to continue to play the game as if playing against a human opponent. The main difference between these systems and traditional 'bots' is that care was taken to make sure that the bot does not take more work to run than the game takes to play. Usabililty, Clarity, and Simplicity are the three key pillars of GMT One's Solitaire designs.