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Dev Journal
Elemental Art Assets for public use
We’re going to organize these online better but in the meantime.. [read more]
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Shacknews Takes a Look at Elemental Screenshots
The fine folks at Shacknews.com grabbed some screenshots of Elemental: War of Magic and gave them a thorough look. “While the art style for Stardock's Elemental: War of Magic is pretty snazzy, screenshots are really only showing half of the story. During a live demonstration at PAX, the other half became immediately apparent: it's all about the zoom.” Read the full article at Shacknews.com . [read more]
Dev Journal
Elemental: Max number of players = infinite
In Galactic Civilizations, we had minor races which players had relatively little control over their existence. In Elemental, 32 players will be the maximum number of major factions that the game will start out with but that doesn’t take into account of minor factions and vassals. In Elemental, one of your abilities will be the governing ability. The more cities under you control, the more overhead cost there is to run your ever growing kingdom. At some point, it may become advisable to turn some cities into vassals. A vassal state is a city (or group of cities) that is originally founded by the player but has been made independent by that player. It becomes its own independent faction controlled by the AI. Initially, as a vassal, it is allied to you. But being independent, all bets are off of what happens in the future. It may join up with someone else, combine up with other vassals to form a new kingdom, or even go on its own to try to become a major faction in its own right through a path of conquest. One could picture a large game where there might be dozens of vassals who form ever changing alliances throughout the game. [read more]
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Colony of Gamers Look at Elemental
Ghostbear from Colony of Gamers was in attendance at PAX, and got a walkthrough of Elemental: War of Magic from Stardock’s Paul Boyer. “Exploration is a large part of the game as well, you'll find dungeons, random encounters, treasure. What you really want to find are the elemental shards, once found you'll want to build an outpost and shrine, so that you'll be able to channel the magic it possesses. Once you have multiple elements you can cast spells that combine those ... [read more]
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Big Download Has Impressions of Elemental from PAX
Without a doubt one of the biggest hits for Stardock at this years Penny Arcade Expo was the upcoming Elemental: War of Magic. Previews and impressions are starting to come out, and today we have one from Big Download. “Your character is basically a very powerful magic user who wants to rule the land. There are several ways he can do this. One is by keeping his power inside him and having that power grow so he can use more and more powerful spells. We got an example of that in ... [read more]
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