↑ Bruce Geryk. “A History of Real-Time Strategy Games”. GameSpot. Truy cập ngày 31 tháng 3 năm 2008. Early computer strategy games adhered firmly to the turn-based concepts of their board game ancestors, where--by necessity--players had time to plan their turns before their opponents had a chance to move. Real-time strategy changed all of that so that games would begin to more closely resemble reality: Time was limited, and if you wasted yours, your opponents would probably be taking advantage of theirs.
↑ Bruce Geryk. “A History of Real-Time Strategy Games”. GameSpot. Truy cập ngày 31 tháng 3 năm 2008. It wasn't until some time after the game was in development that I decided to call it "real-time strategy"--it seems obvious now, but there was a lot of back and forth between calling it a "real-time war game", "real-time war", "wargame", or "strategy game". I was deeply concerned that words like "strategy" and "wargame" would keep many players from even trying this completely new game dynamic. Before 1992, wargames and strategy games were very much niche markets--with the exception of Sid Meier's work--so my fears were justified. But in the end, it was best to call it an "RTS" because that is exactly what it was.
↑ “Top ten real-time strategy games of all time”. GameSpy. Truy cập ngày 2 tháng 12 năm 2008. You can't really talk about the real-time strategy genre without giving a nod to Dune II, the title that kicked off the phenomena.
↑ Bruce Geryk. “A History of Real-Time Strategy Games”. GameSpot. Truy cập ngày 31 tháng 3 năm 2008. Although games such as Populous and SimCity are certainly played in real time, these give rise to the "god game" genre, which includes such titles as the city-builder series from Impressions, Will Wright's innovative designs, and much of Peter Molyneux's work, including the upcoming Black & White. Games in this genre tend to appeal to their own fans, and while there definitely is an overlap between these two genres, gamers generally see them as distinct from one another.
↑ This mostly a concern with older RTS games that did not feature building queues, meaning that players would have to click the button to build a unit soon after it was completed. However, in some games where units have timed abilities that must be explicitly activated, for instance heroes in the RTT game Mark of Chaos this is still a concern.
↑ “RTS Design”. Aspects of real-time strategy. Tháng 9 năm 2007. Truy cập ngày 13 tháng 9 năm 2007. Chú thích sử dụng tham số |month= bị phản đối (trợ giúp)
