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Dev Journal #17: New vs. Remaster

While this game is a remastering of the Elemental games (War of Magic + Fallen Enchantress + Sorcerer King), we are also keen to make sure there is new content for players to enjoy. With Beta 1, we did add a lot of new quests, units and items. But those kinds of things can be tricksy for an experienced player to know if they are new or just things that they didn’t see before. The improved tooltips, UI, hot keys, etc. are probably not that noticeable to someone looking for something ne... [read more]

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Dev Journal #16: The Road to Beta 2

As I write this, we’re putting together the first Preview of Beta 2. Beta 2 will have 3 major new changes: Steam Workshop support for modding First pass at localization Dynasties Let’s see where we’re at. Localization For Beta 2, we are going to focus on 3 languages: French, German and Spanish. This is because they don’t h ave as many unique characters as say Russian or Chinese. Baby steps. For Beta 3, the focus is going to be on Russian, Chinese, Japanese, ... [read more]

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Dev Journal #15: So viele Sprachen

The original Elemental: War of Magic was not just “English-only”. It was hard coded into English in such a way to make it nearly impossible to localize it. Under the covers, the game and the underlying engine, Kumquat, uses char * everywhere. This means that all text is byte-oriented, single-code unit that only works nicely with ASCII. Even German is tough because of ä ö ü ß and so on. And our code is full of toupper(myText) which can only handle A-Z. The code was full of sprintf(). I... [read more]

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Dev Journal #14: In a Sea of Bugs

Have you ever had a home project where you’re dealing with “imperial” units and “metric” units at the same time? The wrench looks like it will fit but it’s just…slightly different. That’s the world of Elemental this past week. We have War of Magi c, Fallen Enchantress and Sorcerer King . Each of them have quests and goodie huts and units and 3D assets that are… almost the same, but not quite. Guess what happens when you have a unit with just one more animation annotation than w... [read more]

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Dev Journal #13: Overwhelming Response & Technical Foundations

THANK YOU! We're shocked and grateful and humbled by the community response to Elemental: Reforged. In the first week since Beta 1 hit Early Access, we’ve hit wishlist numbers and sales approximately 6X higher than our most optimistic projections. The game is already in the top 1000 overall wishlists. When we started working on this a few years ago, we were just really doing this for ourselves. A kind of therapy . So this has all been overwhelming in a good way. Your support means I... [read more]

Stardock Entertainment Announcements

Now in Early Access - Elemental: Reforged

Remaster of the Classic Fantasy Strategy Game Series, Enters Early Access Today Join Early Access Now Stardock Entertainment announced that its remaster of the Elemental fantasy strategy game series, Elemental: Reforged , entered Early Access today.  The classic sandbox turn-based 4X game series puts the player in the role of a sovereign of a fledgling kingdom in a world that has been devastated by a war of magic. “ Elemental: Reforged is the cul... [read more]