Journals
Dev Journal
Greetings! We have made Beta 1-Z4 available. General Overview: Focus on improving stability, particularly on Windows XP Prepping the AI to start actually having it do something (AI still non-existent but the plumbing is starting to go in) Better Saved Game Robustness Performance Optimizations Cleaned up Technology Tree Caveats: There are some cases of stuck turns. Don’t be alarmed by this, they’re caused by the multiplayer code exposing ... [read more]
News
Elemental Facebook Contest is On!
As mentioned last week, we are having a giveaway on our Elemental: War of Magic Facebook page where we are giving away a key for Elemental. All you have to do for a chance to win is become a fan of our Elemental page, and leave a comment in the giveaway post. http://www.facebook.com/elementalgame Contest rules - http://bit.ly/bcrWRg [read more]
Dev Journal
The good news is that Elemental Beta 2 is only expected to last 2 weeks. The bad news is that Beta 2 will be multiplayer only, hence the short duration. The object of beta 2 will be to begin the testing of the server infrastructure. Elemental is client/server for its multiplayer. In fact, it’s dedicated server for beta 2 – players will be playing on our own servers distributed across the world. The reason for this is that it eliminates the whole connectivity issue – if you... [read more]
Dev Journal
Elemental Beta Testers: Your characters in now
As promised, we are going to start putting in Beta tester NPCs into the game. If you want your NPC in the game here is what you need to do: Step #1: Create a sovereign When you create this guy/gal, bear in mind that this is going to be an NPC. So don’t max him. He shouldn’t be as powerful as your sovereign so don’t use up your points. Step #2: Find your sovereign in the documents\my games\elemental\units Step #3: Make them an NPC This is rel... [read more]
News
Join our Elemental Facebook page for a Chance to Win
Next week we are having a giveaway on our Facebook page for Elemental: War of Magic. One lucky winner will win a code to redeem their copy of Elemental. All you have to do is become a fan(or “like” now) of our page, and answer the simple question we will post come next week. A random winner will be picked a week later from those who respond. Be sure to pass along the info to your friends too! You can find our FB page here: www.facebook.com/elementalgame [read more]
Dev Journal
Elemental – Data Driving the AI
When I wrote the AI for Galactic Civilizations, everything was hard-coded in C++. That was nice for me but not so nice for everyone who would like to tweak things later. Moreover, it makes it very easy for things to become a mess later on as improvements rely on my memory of what technique I used to do a given thing. Yesterday and this morning, I officially began my work on the Elemental AI. What’s in the game presently isn’t AI, it’s just a few IF/THEN statements.... [read more]
Dev Journal
Elemental: Destiny’s Embers Preview
Elemental: Destiny's Embers is due out in August. Published by Random House, the story revolves around the Kingdom and the Empire trying to regain mastery of the world. Myself and the editors and writers at Random House are collaborating on a single set of lore that the game and the novels make use of. The novel helps underscore how serious we are about delivering to gamers (and readers) a world that isn’t simply generic fantasy. Starting with beta 3 of Elemental, the lore star... [read more]