Journals

News

Elemental “Design a Quest” Contest Winner!

A big congrats goes out to Tydorius for winning the Elemental “Design a Quest” contest!  We had a ton of fantastic entries, but ultimately the ‘Demon Lord’ quest reigned supreme by popular vote. “There are a lot of things this quest does right. It has a cool backstory, it fits into the theme of the ruined world and allows the player to naturally find and discover the quest. I really like that the first step of the quest is largely indistinguishable from more basic quests, hinting ... [read more]

Dev Journal

Tactical Combat and Special Abilities

Forum poster Kenata was able to come to the office last week and spend a day with us.  We talked about War of Magic, Fallen Enchantress, modding and what makes games great.  My favorite moment was when Toby commented that Kenata and Jon should just marry each other after listening to Kenata praise the virtues of Chronotrigger (one of Jon's favorite games). We got some work done too.  Kenata was peppered with lots of questions about what he would change in War of Magic, what he ... [read more]

News

Stardock Customer Report 2010

For the last couple of years Stardock has released its Customer Report to the public, and we have always received a great response to it, so I’m happy to present the Stardock Customer Report 2010.  This report is part of the internal business plan of Stardock along with results from our yearly customer survey that we send out to our customers. View: Stardock Customer Report 2010 [read more]

Dev Journal

War of Magic–Report Card

Greetings! Relative to other games you’ve played this year how is Elemental: War of Magic doing? How are other games you’ve bought this year doing that were released in the same time doing? Example: AT RELEASE: E: War of Magic: Civilization V: Starcraft 2: Fallout: New Vegas: END OF 2010: E: War of Magic: Civilization V: Starcraft 2: Fallout: New Vegas: NOW: E: War of Magic: Civilization V: Starcraft 2: Fall... [read more]

Dev Journal

Interview land

Derek and the team have been interviewing candidates for various positions this week. It’s been really interesting how far Derek, Bruno, Mat and others have been able to take our interview process in terms of evaluating the skills of different people. I’ve never been interviewed for a real job, I founded Stardock while in college until I could get a real job – which I’ve never gotten yet.  So my knowledge on what a good interview process is comes second hand. One area I do care about a... [read more]

Dev Journal

Favorite map size?

What is your favorite map size in War of Magic? [read more]