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Creatures of Elemental: Hordes of the Fallen

  The Fallen are made up of many different races and creatures. Some of these creatures are sentient (or semi-sentient). Some are mindless and others, while lacking sentience have a cunning that makes them lethal. This is by no means a complete list of Fallen creatures.   Trolls. Huge, powerful, stupid. Powerful sorcerers can charm them.     Edars. Rare but powerful Edars are incredibly dangerous with their elemental magic. Can be... [read more]

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Elemental: The Tragedy of Procipinee

This Summer we are hoping to put up some flash movies on the site to help introduce players to the lore of Elemental. The movies would be organized as a timeline starting at around 10,000 years before the Cataclysm. Elemental: War of Magic, takes place approximately 100 years after the cataclysm. The upcoming Beta 1G (due “real soon now”) begins to incorporate actual “game” stuff.  So I thought this would be a good opportunity to discuss and begin introducing people to the actua... [read more]

News

Elemental Q&A Update with GameSpot

GameSpot.com has a quick update Q&A with Brad Wardell about the current status of Elemental: War of Magic. "Brad Wardell: We're nearing the end of the first beta of the game. Our focus has been to work through the game mechanics to make sure what seems fun on paper will translate to fun in-game. Specifically, we have been working on the battle system, quests, and the player's dynasty. The dynasty system has proven to be far more interesting than we had realized" Read the full update ove... [read more]

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Elemental Beta 1-G plans

The next public beta of Elemental adds Dyansties, Spells, and Quests.  I’m pleased to say that those features are in but they aren’t even slightly balanced or remotely polished yet.  Moreover, there are some blatant bugs (AI is threaded now and there are times that it isn’t triggering the semaphore) that we need to deal with. So with that in mind, we’re going to go ahead and push Beta 1-G back.  Because next week is the launch of Sins of a... [read more]

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Elemental February Status Report

As I write this in February, we are working on Beta 1G of Elemental. The last two betas (beta 1E and beta 1F) have been released only internally making this the first public beta since December. Beta 1G marks the end of Beta 1.  Right now, we’re trying to decide whether we need to polish beta 1G further prior to releasing it to the public or whether to release it and then do subsequent public updates to beta 1G as we clean things up as we head into Beta 2 which begins the multipla... [read more]

Dev Journal

Elemental: It's Fun to Charm Stuff...

So the next big beta is scheduled for this Thursday, where evenone on the beta group will get their first taste of several new features.  One such feature (possible the biggest, from a gameplay standpoint) is in the implementation of the spellbook. You can now learn spells and, provided you have the mana and/or essence, cast them with a flick (click) of your wand (left mouse button). One of the suprising things we found this Friday, during our end-of-the-week powwow, is that the clo... [read more]