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Elemental’s 2nd Contest: Design a Quest!
We are excited to announce our 2nd Elemental: War of Magic contest which starts today! We head great success with the “Design a Spell” contest, so we are taking it to the next step with the “Design a Quest” contest. If you are familiar with the previous contest, then the premise is basically the same except this time we are looking for user submitted quests. If you have a cool idea for a quest that you think would be a great addition to Elemental, then come post your quest idea ... [read more]
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Shacknews Interview with Jon Shafer
The official news came out today that Jon Shafer is joining Stardock to work on Elemental: War of Magic and other future projects. Shacknews.com has a great interview posted with Jon that I recommend you check out. Shack: With Derek Paxton leading continuing development on Elemental: War of Magic, what will your responsibilities be on the project? Jon Shafer: I'll be playing the game a lot, providing design ideas and feedback to producer Derek Paxton and the rest of the... [read more]
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Jon Shafer, Lead Designer of Civilization V, Joins Stardock
Stardock Entertainment, independent publisher of games including Sins of a Solar Empire , Demigod and Elemental: War of Magic has hired Civilization V Lead Designer Jon Shafer to help lead the studio’s design and modding efforts. Shafer will bring additional modding expertise to the recently launched Elemental: War of Magic and will take the lead in designing the next as-of-yet unannounced Stardock title. Shafer hails from Firaxis where he was lead designer and principal gameplay ... [read more]
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Dave Stern Joins Stardock to Oversee Creative Storytelling
Stardock Entertainment continues to bolster its development staff as renowned fantasy and science fiction writer/editor Dave Stern joins Stardock to oversee creative storytelling and lore implementation in all future projects, including the recently launched Elemental: War of Magic . Stern, author of numerous books including the novelizations of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and The Blair Witch Project and former editor of Pocket Books Star Trek and science fiction lines, was responsible for pu... [read more]
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Design a Spell Contest Winner Announced!
For the past month or so we have been running an Elemental “Design a Spell” contest where you the players had the opportunity to submit spells that might end up in a future update in Elemental: War of Magic. We received hundreds of submissions and the top five finalists were chosen and the public voted for their favorite. The winner was: unacomn ! HIs spell “Shadow World” was chosen as the favorite in public voting. “This spell opens up a rift to a shadow plane from wh... [read more]
Dev Journal
Greetings! On behalf of the team at Stardock, Happy New Year! 2011 is going to be an amazing year for Elemental fans! Kael and his team have some exciting things in the works. We have v1.11 that will almost certainly go out in the next couple of weeks as well as work on both v1.2 and the first expansion pack. You’ll be happy to know that sales of Elemental have continued to grow. Of course, December was Christmas season but it marks the third consecutive month of incre... [read more]
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As some of you know, I’ve been working on a lot of the low level systems of Elemental during the Christmas break. With the team on vacation, this is a good time for me to get into the bowels of the game itself to make changes without worrying about breaking other people’s changes. Computer AI is my passion and in recent years (especially since GalCiv II) I haven’t had the pleasure to do nearly as much AI coding as I’d like (with the whole day job of running Stardock and all). So... [read more]