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In 10 days, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress will be released to the public. Building a new 4X franchise is a challenge. If you look at Wikipedia’s 4X chronology there aren’t that many, particularly if you focus purely on turn-based ones. What features matter depends on the person. For me, I want to feel like I’m building a civilization. That’s why I was drawn to Master of Magic and Civilization. Creating a strategy game that focuses not just on warfare but... [read more]
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Fallen Enchantress: The Journey
> As you may know, we've set a release date for Fallen Enchantress. It's October 23, 2012. These past two years have been quite a journey. When I joined Stardock, I asked Brad how much freedom I would have with the Elemental universe. Could I make it a new and different game than War of Magic? He said, "Do whatever needs to be done, take whatever time it needs, make a great game." He meant it and that brings us to where we are now. Fallen Enchantress isn&#... [read more]
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Elemental: Fallen Enchantress Release Date Set for October 23rd
Stardock’s much anticipated PC fantasy strategy game, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress is about to go “gold” and its official release date has been set as Tuesday, October 23rd. The development team at Stardock, led by Derek Paxton (Fall from Heaven) with a campaign designed by Jon Shafer (Civ V), unveil Fallen Enchantress , a strategy game that brings the kind of detail and richness normally only seen in RPGs. The world of Elemental was once filled with magic. All peoples made use of this ... [read more]
Dev Journal
Fallen Enchantress: The tale of Boyne
This is a game play example of what a randomly generated game of Elemental: Fallen Enchantress is like. The Dark Days Amarian, greatest of the Kings of his age led the host of the west in a desperate battle against Curgen, lord of the Titans. So great was their battle that it broke the world, dividing east and west by a great sea. In that desolation, ancient creatures returned from the deep places of the earth and laid claim to vast swaths of the world. Where these ele... [read more]
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Fallen Enchantress–Modding Guide
Modding Guide Preliminaries I’ll be updating this as time goes on. I’ll get turned into its own article eventually with a live version in the modding area of the forums. To use mods, you need to go to the Options dialog and turn on “Use Mods”. Get familiar with this directory: The documents\my games\fallenenchantress\mods directory is read in by the game. The Tools ... [read more]
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Crunch time at Stardock–Fallen Enchantress nears completion
(this is going to be long…but here we near the climax of the story of the making of Fallen Enchantress ). In the beginning… So as some of you know, my day job is President/CEO of Stardock. I founded the company when I was in college to help pay for school – until I could get a “real” job. Not surprisingly, I was unable to find a real job and so, I’ve been “stuck” here for the last 20 years. I’ve even put my resume on that fancy paper. You know, the textured kind? No l... [read more]
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The Home Stretch: Have we succeeded?
Greetings! Yesterday we released Elemental: Fallen Enchantress BETA 5-C. This build is our first pass at balance and UI enhancement. Next week we will have a BETA 5-D which will focus almost exclusively on bug fixing and balancing as well as some new AI counter-strategies so those of you who have posted your game play strategies online (foolish humans! ). We are reaching the home stretch. We will also have a Beta 5-E. After that, we'll see where things ... [read more]