Journals
Dev Journal
Hey guys and gals, sorry its taken me so long to introduce myself here, been busy working on 1.1 content for you all. I am the 'less-exciting-than-Derek-Paxton' new Associate Producer on Elemental, Toby Sarnelle. For a little quick background on me: I have been at Stardock for a year now, however, I was just recently moved over to the games team. Those of you who have been around here for the last year may have seen my posts in the Elemental Army forum, I was the... [read more]
Dev Journal
As mentioned last week on November 1st I’ll be resuming my traditional position as Executive Producer and lead designer (the position I held on our previous games) so that someone who can dedicate their full attention to Elemental can succeed me. My successor, Kael (Derek Paxton), is well known in the Civilization community for Fall from Heaven, a rich, fantasy-based mod. If anyone is qualified to take over the reigns of Elemental, it’s him. In addition, we recently brou... [read more]
News
BigDownload Interview with Derek Paxton and Brad Wardell
The news broke this week that Derek Paxton will be joining Stardock to lead the games team on Elemental and other projects. BigDownload has an interview with both Derek and Brad posted on their site. Check it out! First, for people who might not know you, can you give us a little about your background in gaming and mod making? I'm a huge fan of turn based strategy games, so much so that I created the Fall from Heaven mod for Civilization IV. I was fortunate enou... [read more]
News
Derek “Kael” Paxton Joins Stardock to Lead Games Development
Stardock Entertainment , developer and publisher of award-winning PC games, announced today that Derek Paxton has joined the studio as senior producer and will oversee Stardock's ongoing development and expansions of the recently released fantasy strategy game, Elemental: War of Magic. Paxton is the creator and lead designer of the Fall from Heaven series of fantasy strategy games. Prior to joining Stardock, he was an external consultant for Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword and co... [read more]
Dev Journal
Elemental: War of Magic v1.09 was released last week. It’s been a challenging month or so since the release of the game. At this stage, the technical issues that affected the game at release have been largely resolved. Now we move towards the next phase which is where we begin to address the game play based on feedback and our own experience. Now as some people have probably noticed, most games released today are sequels to existing games. It’s difficult these days to launc... [read more]
Dev Journal
Elemental: War of Magic v1.09 was released last week. It’s been a challenging month or so since the release of the game. At this stage, the technical issues that affected the game at release have been largely resolved. Now we move towards the next phase which is where we begin to address the game play based on feedback and our own experience. Now as some people have probably noticed, most games released today are sequels to existing games. It’s difficult these days to launc... [read more]
Dev Journal
Hey Everyone, Tonight you’ll be able to update to v1.09E of Elemental. There are several bugfixes and tweaks in it, but the major change is the shift to a public Multiplayer build. If you’ve been playing the ‘release candidate’ MP builds, we suggest turning off ‘Show Pre-Release’ versions for anyone that has it selected that ONLY wants the official updates). After 1.09E we’ll be shifting all our energies onto v1.1, where you’ll start to see t... [read more]