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I have to be honest. I did not follow the development of “Shadow of Mordor” at all. As you may recall, after it turned out to be impossible to get a viewing of the game during this year’s E3 despite my hour-long wait, I lost interest in the game altogether. Now that it has been released, a lot of coverage… Continue reading "Does the “Nemesis System” feel familiar to you? Perhaps it should…"
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If you’ve been following the development of my current game project, “Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore,” you may be aware of the fact that we are currently trying to find this project on Kickstarter. Here is a short trailer for the game, which taken from the full Kickstarter pitch video. Check it out and see if this is something you like.… Continue reading "The Deathfire Kickstarter is live!"
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I know that I have been remiss on this, and I apologize, but we opened the official website for my current game project “Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore” a little while ago and have transferred all the Development Diary entries over there. Instead of updating both blogs constantly, I think I will stop posting these updates here and will do them… Continue reading "The Deathfire Development Diary has moved"
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While venturing through the catacombs somewhere in the depths of the Ruins of Nethermore the other day, we stumbled across a strange set of notes. They seem to be coming from the pages of a diary. In fact, someone suggested, they might be a diary entry from the great elven wizard Tesselar. Long and heated discussion broke out over this… Continue reading "Mysterious notes discovered in the Ruins of Nethermore…"
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A few weeks ago we ran a small focus group among Deathfire fans, as you may remember. Many of you have been eager to hear about the results of this focus group and as I had promised, %%% % % % today I want to share with you a closer look at the outcome. The focus group was designed to… Continue reading "A look at the focus group results and Deathfire’s final title"
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I recently did a lengthy podcast interview the great folks over at Darkstation and I thought I’d let you all know that the podcast is now live on their site in the “Darkcast” section. The podcast has the title Making Zombies with Fire and covers a lot of ground. Not only did we talk about my current game project, Deathfire,… Continue reading "Darkstation Podcast with lots of background info"
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One by one they are disappearing Friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers When they return they aren’t who you think They look the same. They sound the same But they are no longer the same… The most unholy of spells incanted, Undead fire burns in its victims’ eyes… The Nethermancer has spoken His was the last voice they heard… Before they… Continue reading "Let me tell you a story"
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After a lot of the talk about some of the basics of the game, I thought it would be nice to have Marian discuss some of the work the art department has been doing on their side of things. So without further ado, here is Marian with some shop talk for you. I’ll be back next time with more info… Continue reading "Oh no, it moves…"
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As the development of Deathfire progresses, we have reached a junction in the development of the game where we would like to get direct feedback from the fans. We want to hear your opinions! Since it has always been one of our foremost intentions to share as many aspects of the development with you, the fans, as possible, we feel… Continue reading "Volunteers for a Deathfire Focus Group, anyone?"
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Before I get into the next Development Diary entry for Deathfire, I wanted to point you all to a new interview with me on The Nerd Cave. It is an interesting – I think – look at the different aspects of my career, not only the games most people are familiar with. But now back to our regularly scheduled programming…… Continue reading "A first look at the user interface"
