Journals
Dev Journal
I’m an AI guy. And that means I’m often a lonely guy. Like right now here at 2am. That’s because when I’m in the zone on AI coding, I just can’t take interruptions. Unfortunately, during the day, that’s largely unavoidable since I run a software company whose primary business isn’t making computer games. But AI is my passion. I just wish I had more time to dedicate it. I won’t kid you. There’s a reason why AI in these fantasy games are usually terrible (or cheat like m... [read more]
News
Voodoo Extreme Has Some New Elemental Screenshots
Voodoo Extreme has some new screenshots for Elemental: War of Magic, but you need to head over there to check them out! http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/55820/Elemental-War-Of-Magic-Screenshots [read more]
News
Elemental Featured in IGN’s PC Games of Summer ‘10
IGN.com has an article up with their picks for the PC Games of Summer 10, and the upcoming Elemental: War of Magic is included! “ Stardock clearly knows how to make a strategy game, as anyone that played Galactic Civilizations can attest. For the studio's upcoming game, you'll select and customize a magic user and set down on sprawling world maps, conquering territory and growing your army.” Read more at IGN.com ! [read more]
News
Elemental Army Reaches 1000 Members!
Elemental Army has been a great success, and today we have reached a milestone with 1000 soldiers in the Elemental Army! As a reward, every member in the Army will receive a 10% off coupon for anything on Impulse! Coupons are being e-mailed out, so be sure to check your inboxes for it. If you are not a solider yet, there is still time to enlist and be eligible for future rewards and giveaways! http://elementalgame.com/army [read more]
Dev Journal
It’s my day off so I’m not working on AI today. But I have a new, better game anyway. It’s called Elemental modding and it’s taken over my life. Let me walk you through this so you can see what I mean: So you could imagine scenarios where someone might make a Warlords mod or a Master of Magic mod or what have you with just the included editors and some XML. So that’s what I’m p... [read more]
Dev Journal
Sunday morning random thoughts
Having spent the day “play testing” the pre-beta 3 build I’ve had some thoughts on gameplay that I’d be interested in y’alls opinions. In no particular order: Interesting Choices. Being forced to spend essence to build a city is not a choice interesting or not. I’m inclined to find some other use to revive land rather than forcing users to use it to effectively build a town. That is, we’d let the player build cities on the foresaken land. Tha... [read more]