Journals
Dev Journal
Fallen Enchantress v1.3 preview
We’re working on Fallen Enchantress 1.3 which has a lot of nice balancing updates that we think you’ll like. We also improved performance, fixed a save game corruption crash and just generally integrated some great ideas from the forums. Since the screenshots we have up are…well…you know…horrible…here are some from a pre-release of 1.3: One of the new features is a pretty big change that you’ll notice almost immediately. Procedural tile yield generation. Basically, it me... [read more]
Press Releases (FE)
Stardock Announces Legendary Heroes, First Expansion for Fallen Enchantress
Legendary Heroes adds a new Champion System, Larger Maps, New Monsters, Improved Tactical Combat, More Spells and Updated visuals Stardock announced its first expansion pack for its popular fantasy strategy game, Fallen Enchantress. The expansion, Legendary Heroes, adds new monsters, new champions, larger maps, new tactical battle maps and re-imagines the role of heroes in the world of Elemental. " One of our goals with Legendary Heroes is to tie together the destiny o... [read more]
Dev Journal
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes FAQ
What is Legendary Heroes? It's an expansion for Fallen Enchantress that adds the following: 1. A new Champion progression system. Instead of random traits your champions have a trait tree that they can use to select traits as they level up, grow your champions the way you want. 2. The ability to recruit special non-human champions. Champions aren't just humans anymore. Rare opportunities or quests may unlock champions of various mons... [read more]
Dev Journal
The PC Gamer review of Fallen Enchantress: 85!
I must confess, I wasn’t expecting one of the best reviews of Fallen Enchantress to come from PC Gamer let alone Tom Francis. Which isn’t to say I don’t think he’s a good reviewer, he is. But PC Gamer’s Tom Francis was the avatar for those who were deeply disappointed in our first attempt at creating a fantasy strategy game back in 2010 (that game, Elemental: War of Magic). Deep down, I had hoped PC Gamer would assign Tom to review Fallen Enchantress. I thought it would be in... [read more]
Dev Journal
The Past, Present and Future of Elemental
After we complete upcoming expansion pack for Elemental: Fallen Enchantress (which we expect to announce NEXT WEEK) we have to do some hard thinking. Specifically, what do we do next? After some trials and tribulations we’ve put together what is, in effect, a Master of Magic style engine (and before someone flips out, I’m not saying FE is just like MOM, I am saying that at this stage, our *game engine* is finally capable of actually making that game which is obviously was not capable of in... [read more]
Press Releases (FE)
Elemental:Fallen Enchantress v1.2 released!
Stardock has released version 1.2 of its popular fantasy strategy game, Fallen Enchantress. Version 1.2 boasts dozens of updates, enhancements and fixes including: Significant AI strategy updates based on strategies employed by players Spawned resources (like iron, gold, wheat) are more common but seeded further away from starting locations Powerful monsters have been adjusted to be less common in habitable areas but more common in the barren lands between factions Default nu... [read more]
Dev Journal
So anyway, we were talking and…
Here’s a weird thing. Stardock turns 20 this year. That’s 20 years since I incorporated it back when I was in college. My mom was the one pushing me. She was afraid I’d get sued by someone. I told her that was crazy. No one would ever sue us. Cough. I was playing FTL and if you don’t already have this game, you really should get it. It’s a reminder that a great game can be made by just a handful of people. It serves as a great exhibit for our internal g... [read more]