Releases March 17, 2026
Journals
Dev Journal
Galactic Civilizations II had advisors for the players. The players could query the advisors and it would give advice on what it thought they should do. Unfortunately, I wrote the advisors in Galactic Civilizations II and my bias was always pretty anti-human so when I say players, I mean the computer players. Humans did not have access to the advisors. It was always considered an unfortunate necessity that the computer players had to tolerate having humans in their game since humans w... [read more]
Dev Journal
Forum feature I recommend using
"Flattened forums" option now available. The flattened forums option is simply another way of viewing the forums. The layout and design won't change, but what posts you see will. What it does is "flatten" all of the posts in a specific forum so that it includes the posts in all of its sub-forums. For example, you can go to the Elemental forum and it will automatically show you the newest posts from any of its sub-forums. It makes it a lot quicker to v... [read more]
Dev Journal
Greetings! Today we released beta 1Z. There are a number of stability hicups that will need to addressed with an update this weekend but overall we’re pleased with the results so far. However, it is our determination that beta 1Z is not sufficiently stable enough yet to proceed to beta 2. Sorry guys we just want to make sure we aren’t rushing anything. What’s next The remainder of Beta 1 will be about stability. Making game mechanic changes and the process of tu... [read more]
Dev Journal
The beta hasn’t been published yet, we’re still fixing a couple of bugs so it'll be tomorrow before it goes public since it's 5pm EST here already. Here’s the change log: - Elemental 1Z Change Log - *********************************************** ** New Features ** *********************************************** - Economy Overhaul - Overview: The major resources in the game have been switched over to being GLOBAL (per- player opposed to per-city). Buildi... [read more]
Dev Journal
Rough sketch of the races of Men
This likely won’t make the final cut into the game because it’s too much for new users. But for those of you interested in the lore of Elemental and how races, factions, and allegiances work under the covers: In beta 1Z and beyond there will only be three included races: Men, Trogs and Urxen. But for those of you in the current beta, we have it sub-divided out much further. The race of men long ago were split into two parts – west and east. The west fought the Tita... [read more]
Dev Journal
To recap: Elemental is an upcoming turn-based strategy game set in a magical world that is recovering from a great magical battle known as the cataclysm. The world has been devastated and most of the magic of the world is gone. Fortunately, a handful of beings have risen from the ashes with the ability to channel magic. These great Sorcerers are the sovereigns who must build new kingdoms (or empires) from the ground up. When you start the game, there is only 1 person. This is... [read more]
Dev Journal
Elemental: Rebuilding a civilization
A century has passed since the cataclysm. Tar-Thela is slain. Curgen the Dred’nir is gone. Talax is gone. The combined armies of the west aided by the last Emperor of men in the east, Amarian were successful in stopping the Titans from opening a passageway to their native world. However, the breaking of such a powerful spell broke the world. In the aftermath of the cataclysm, nearly all life on Elemental perished. A century later, life has begun to return to the world. Scat... [read more]