Journals
Dev Journal
Greetings! We’re doing some final testing on Beta 2 and expect (but we’re not promising) to release it this week. This article will walk you through the beta and help you understand what is and isn’t in the game and what kinds of feedback we’re looking for. If you’re in the beta or joining the beta program, please become very familiar with the reporting guidelines . General Objectives Compatibility Testing. Does it work on your PC? If not, wh... [read more]
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Here is the map of Elemental (map made for Random House’s Elemental: Destiny's Embers novel). A cloth map (made of canvas specifically) will be included in the Limited Edition . [read more]
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Elemental – video of playing on the islands
Testing out the map generation. [read more]
News
Introducing the Elemental Army!
Impulse is giving PC fans an added bonus for their Diggs, Tweets and Forum participation starting today as Stardock announced the formation of a new fan-based society, the Elemental Army. Fans of the anticipated PC fantasy strategy title Elemental: War of Magic can win limited edition / custom Elemental packs, up to $100 in gift cards to Stardock’s digital distribution platform, Impulse and more by simply enlisting in the Elemental Army and participating in online discussions about the... [read more]
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I’ve been getting a lot of messages. Let me first say that I get between 20 to 30 a day (just messages, not counting my regular email) so I tend to be very very slow in getting back to them (I apologize in advance for this). But the most common question I have been getting these past few days is “How will I know if the AI is “good enough”? Now, I understand that people want the game to come out on August 24th (the scheduled release day). I very much want this too. B... [read more]
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Message from Elemental AI: I’ll see you in court
The AI is unhappy. That is a summary of the complaint it filed with the federal court against me on Friday. It is unhappy that it has to “learn” each map. Humans cheat all the time. Why can’t it? A human player will pull up the mini map and figure out which general direction they should explore. The AI? Nope. I won’t let it do that. It doesn’t get to “know” anything about a map. The AI points out that when we worked together on Galactic Civilizations that I let it i... [read more]
News
Gamasutra Interview about Elemental and Random House
Gamasutra has posted an interview today with Stardock’s Brad Wardell about the upcoming PC game, Elemental: War of Magic, and it’s partnership with Random House to create a novel written by Brad as well. “ What prompted that? They had just seen that the game was in development? BW: They were already aware of Galactic Civilizations, and they liked that we had a whole universe around it, so they asked, "What is your next game?" We told them about Elementa... [read more]