Today, the folks at Gamespot posted an interview with legendary game designer Sid Meier. The interview goes into the development of Starships and how Sid wanted to get back to "a method of making games that really focused on game design, that allowed us to spend most of our time designing and maybe a little less of our time on all the other stuff needed to make games."
Read the full interview here: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sid-meier-s-starships-going-beyond-beyond-earth/1100-6424735/