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Psst. Elemental 2015

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Before I tell them to set this up I wanted to make a post and gauge interest in this:

There's going to be a new fantasy strategy game from Stardock in the Elemental universe. It's NOT a sequel to Fallen Enchantress.  

I'm looking to ask the team to set up a founder's program for people who are interested in getting a sneak peak at what we're doing and getting early access to it this Fall. The founder's edition would be $20.

Here is, broadly, what the game is like:

  1. Completely new art style
  2. Asymmetrical 4X (it's not you vs. other similar empires, it's you vs. a single bad guy with everyone else as pawns between the two of you and you both play by your own set of rules)
  3. No unit design and no tech tree, instead you gain access to things based on what you've built in your city
  4. Sovereign is not a unit in the game, you instead choose the spell books your sovereign has, their specialization and their ability and use that across the world 
  5. Shards provide magic which is divided between mana, lore (spell research) and skill (for upgrading your sovereign's specialization tree)
  6. Much more quest focused (spells written by Cracked.com's Chris Bucholz, they're awesome)
  7. Champions acquired via completing quests
  8. Crafting (players find ingredients and recipes through the course of the game)
  9. Multiple continents, islands, ship travel
  10. Tactical battles heavily focused on what spells and abilities you have and how you use them, feels a bit like Hearthstone but the battles are still elemental style except with more units - instead of 9 ala LH you'd have up to 15)
  11. All units have special abilities
  12. Plot takes place centuries after the events of LH - suffice to say, bad things have happened
  13. Player *starts out* with the Forge of the Overlord - the player is very tough, has all the techs from LH from the start which is to say the bad guy is just that much tougher

Now, as you can see, because it's so different we're updating, enhancing LH on its own dev path with its own meaningful updates. 

Anyway, who would be interested in joining a Founder's Program if we put it up in June?

 

UPDATE: The URL for the $20 early Founder's edition is live: https://www.stardock.com/buy?s=ESD-SDE-W062


UPDATE 2: The E2015 Founder's Vault is live: http://e2015.stardock.com/

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Reply #76 from Elemental Forums Top

I just signed up too.    I am really looking forward to this getting started.

Reply #77 from Elemental Forums Top

Link worked great! I am in, can't wait!

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Reply #78 from Elemental Forums Top

Done and done.  Can't wait.

Reply #79 from Elemental Forums Top

Just saw and bought.

Reply #80 from Elemental Forums Top

/purchased. 

 

How far out are we from this, roughly? September? August?

 

Also, I got the impression that we were going to get access really soon in a few of your posts. Has that now changed?

Reply #81 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm in as well.

Waits patiently for Founders Badge. I mean, why should the GC3 founders have all the glory?... :)

Reply #82 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm completely confident that E2015 will be great, but I want to bring up potential issues with Founders programs and early access.

The main reason I didn't participate in the GC3 program was because I was concerned that my 3 year old computer might not meet the system requirements.

I guess I should have considered that regarding E2015 as well. But this is the primary issue I have with sight-unseen games.

Reply #83 from Elemental Forums Top

Re. the founders badge, 

in the near future some posters (such as myself) could find themselves decked with 3 badges (GC3 + OWT + E15) - perhaps you should allow some toggles (e.g smaller badges, combo badges, etc.) so it doesn't look ridiculous.

Reply #84 from Elemental Forums Top

$20 - sold.

 

How will the units distinguish themselves with no unit design?

Reply #85 from LittleTinyFrogs Forums Top

Quoting UnleashedElf, reply 84

$20 - sold.

 

How will the units distinguish themselves with no unit design?

 

i look forward to going into detail shortly in the founder's vault. :)

Reply #86 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 85



Quoting UnleashedElf,
reply 84

$20 - sold.

 

How will the units distinguish themselves with no unit design?


 

i look forward to going into detail shortly in the founder's vault.

 

I'm looking forward to that like a little child on christmas eve.

Reply #87 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 85


Quoting UnleashedElf, reply 84
$20 - sold.

 

How will the units distinguish themselves with no unit design?

 

i look forward to going into detail shortly in the founder's vault.

 

Um, you forgot the hyperlink under "founder's vault."   O:)  j/k

 

Finish up 1.7 first, no rush.

Reply #88 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 85


I look forward to going into detail shortly in the founder's vault.

How and when will we be able to access the Founder's vault?

Reply #89 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Borg999, reply 88


Quoting Frogboy, reply 85

I look forward to going into detail shortly in the founder's vault.


How and when will we be able to access the Founder's vault?

There will be a Founders vault site where users who purchased can access all the stuff, pretty much like the GCIII vault.

 

Reply #90 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Island, reply 89



Quoting Borg999,
reply 88


Quoting Frogboy, reply 85

I look forward to going into detail shortly in the founder's vault.


How and when will we be able to access the Founder's vault?


There will be a Founders vault site where users who purchased can access all the stuff, pretty much like the GCIII vault.

 

 

OK, sounds good. Any ETA on when the Founder's vault will be launched?

Reply #91 from Elemental Forums Top

Founder's Vault:

http://e2015.stardock.com/

 

Reply #92 from Elemental Forums Top

Awesome! Will read up (and listen to) this stuff later when I have a moment. Thanks, Brad.

Reply #93 from Elemental Forums Top

New comer to the Elemental party here. As I've been reading on the GalCiv3 forum for the past few weeks I've noticed posts about Elemental. Started reading them and then got an email about Stardock's sale so I bought FE:LH. I then bought all the DLC and then saw this and bought into this. I'm ready, bring it on! :D

Reply #94 from Elemental Forums Top


Awesome music! Loved the Magesta theme sooooooo much! Wonder who the composer is. My compliments.

 

NB! Listened to the rest as well. This sounds so good. Reminds me about the good old feel of the Music from the Heroes 3 and 4 games. Those games had legendary music.

 

Now to the game info file, a glass of wine and a cigarette. :)

Reply #95 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting NorsemanViking, reply 94


Awesome music! Loved the Magesta theme sooooooo much! Wonder who the composer is. My compliments.

 

NB! Listened to the rest as well. This sounds so good. Reminds me about the good old feel of the Music from the Heroes 3 and 4 games. Those games had legendary music.

 

Now to the game info file, a glass of wine and a cigarette.

Same composer as WOM/LH/GalCiv II/III actually. :) He's great!

There's been a long of changes with E2015 though in terms of staffing.  A lot of the visuals were made by people who had worked on Civilization V (they joined us this past year) and sound and some of the music direction is coming from the Civ V/XCOM sound engineering team (they joined us this past year as well). 

It's not using Nitrous (as someone asked). It's using a heavily modified version of Kumquat.

Reply #96 from Elemental Forums Top

Yay! More stuff added since this afternoon gents.  Pics of units.  Looking good.  Can't wait.

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Reply #97 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 95
Same composer as WOM/LH/GalCiv II/III actually. He's great!

 

Gotta admit, although the strategic map tracks in FE/LH are getting a bit old after 1k+ hours, the menu music and battle theme are still amazing.  Please pass on some kudos.

Reply #98 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting stewapet, reply 96

Yay! More stuff added since this afternoon gents.  Pics of units.  Looking good.  Can't wait.

 

Thanks for that, I wouldn't have thought to check again this soon!

Reply #99 from Elemental Forums Top

I am in.  :thumbsup:

 

Reply #100 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 91

Founder's Vault:

http://e2015.stardock.com/

 

WHy aren't the things in the Founders Vault viewable online?  Especially the images... If I click on one of them, I don;t want to have to download it to my local PC just to view it.  Especially images... WTH...