Steam's Midweek Madness sale for this week is up, and this is your chance to get Sorcerer King for just $11.24! That is 55% off the regular price, but this sale ends this Saturday (January 23rd) so don't miss out. Get it now on Steam! [read more]
1/19/2016 By Island Dog in Sorcerer King News
There will be a Sorcerer King Dev Q&A today on the GOG.com forums with some of the Stardock team. The thread will open on the GOG forums around 12pm ET today, and the team will be answering questions players may have. Be sure to stop by: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/sorcerer_king_developer_qa_9396d [read more]
1/15/2016 By Island Dog in Sorcerer King News
This past week I was on Explormiate ( http://explorminate.net/2015/12/16/strategic-expanse-interview-with-brad-wardell-2/ ) and the subject of game engines. Given the emails and feedback I’ve gotten it is pretty clear most people are not that familiar with game engine generations. So consider this a basic primer on them and why they matter. Beginnings It’s important to note that historically, every game had its own custom engine. Id was a pionee... [read more]
12/19/2015 By Frogboy in GalCiv III Dev Journals
Ashes of the Singularity v.71 is Now Available! This build addresses a few bugs and makes a couple of adjustments to game play balance. The cost of the Hades unit has been reduced, Centaur missiles are now armor piercing, and archer rockets fire less often but deal more damage, to name a few. The UI has seen a few tweaks, the largest of which is the "Invite Friends" button, which will now be enabled for non-host players. To see what additional changes were made to graphics, sound, ... [read more]
12/17/2015 By Island Dog in Ashes of the Singularity News
Be careful what you wish for. Next year all the 4X’s are going to come out. What I write below is not under some NDA. I know it because it’s my job to know it. Let me walk you through the schedule: 1H2016: Stellaris, Master of Orion 2H2016: Civilization VI, Endless Space 2 I could be wrong on the dates. You could swap some of this around a bit but you get the idea. Where is GalCiv III in this? Stardock will be announcing its first expansion in... [read more]
12/16/2015 By Frogboy in GalCiv III Dev Journals
New stock mode and ELO rankings for the top players. [Gameplay] Subsidiary dividends now come each turn. Reveal Map is on for Daily Challenges Renamed Parks to Warehouses. Offworld Markets launch faster if next to Warehouses. Hacker Arrays are faster next to Offices. Patent Labs are faster next to Labs. Upgrade Labs are faster next to Toolshops. 2-3 players: start with 1 share of stock. 4-5 players: start with 2 shares. 6+ players: start with 3 shares. Fixed issues wi... [read more]
12/16/2015 By Island Dog in Offworld News
Join Kristy and Scott for another modding in Sorcerer King episode @3pm ET on Twitch! Join us and follow our Stardock Twitch channel - http://www.twitch.tv/stardock After the live broadcast today, we’ll post the replay on our YouTube channel so you can catch up on the latest episodes. [read more]
12/16/2015 By Island Dog in Sorcerer King News
The Sixth Offworld Twitch Tournament has finished, and the four-player best-of-5 finals was between Blues, Cubit, Gameslayer, and Soren Johnson. The streams were broadcast by Zultar , and the first game is linked below. The final bracket can be viewed here: http://challonge.com/offworld6 . [read more]
12/16/2015 By Island Dog in Offworld Dev Journals
Got questions? Leader designer Paul has answers! Talk v1.5 on Twitch with us @3pm today! Come on over to our Stardock Twitch channel and join us for our live broadcast at 3pm EST! After the live broadcast today, we’ll post the replay on our YouTube channel so you can catch up on the latest episodes. Update : Replay is on YouTube. [read more]
12/11/2015 By Island Dog in GalCiv III News
v.70 adds Ice Maps, Orbitals, New "Cruiser Factory" building, and more! Progress for Ashes of the Singularity is moving along nicely and the Dev Team is pleased to present you with their latest update, v.70! This update includes a lot of exciting new features and bug fixes. For a full and detailed change log, check the bottom of the post. Orbitals The new Orbital Command and the Orbital Fabricator buildings now offer you new way... [read more]
12/10/2015 By Island Dog in Ashes of the Singularity News
Galactic Civilizations III v1.5 adds lots of new diplomacy features to better shape the destiny of the galaxy! Version 1.5 offers more diplomacy options, the new Coercion ability, and a unique twist on the Planetary Spending Wheel while the "Precursor Worlds" DLC brings exciting new worlds, events, and anomalies to the game! You can view the update's full change log down below. Plus: New "Precursor Worlds" DLC Unlock the mysteries of the Precursors and explo... [read more]
12/9/2015 By Island Dog in GalCiv III News
Join Kristy and Scott for another modding in Sorcerer King episode @3pm ET on Twitch! Join us and follow our Stardock Twitch channel - http://www.twitch.tv/stardock After the live broadcast today, we’ll post the replay on our YouTube channel so you can catch up on the latest episodes. Update : Replay is on YouTube. [read more]
12/9/2015 By Island Dog in Sorcerer King News
Brad has an AAR from a game with Ashes of the Singularity, and talks about some of the tech behind it in an article on Wayward Strategist. "By the time I finally wiped out the AI opponent, I had over 8,000 units. I mainly wanted to see how far we’d come on performance. We’re doing pretty well with memory. We might be able to bring down the memory requirement to 6 GB. Video memory is still 2GB minimum. You need a 2013 or later video card. I’m playing this ... [read more]
12/8/2015 By Island Dog in Ashes of the Singularity News
Originally posted by Soren Johnson on the Mohawk Games blog. We are announcing the Sixth Offworld Twitch Tournament! Here are the rules: All tournament matches are free-for-alls, with a medium map and default settings, with the exception of Masquerade and Reveal Map, which must be turned on. All games must be played on the next_version branch (password is “MohicanSun2015)”). The format for winning is that games continue until one player has won&n... [read more]
12/7/2015 By Island Dog in Offworld Dev Journals
Greetings! In October we released v1.3 of Sorcerer King which added a ton cool things like the build queue, a bunch of UI improvements, bug fixes and more. 1.4 is a somewhat bigger change and as a result has taken longer to get out. Much of it is under the covers but should be pretty noticeable in play. Let’s take a look: Three things to take notice here: 1. There’s an Auto-Equip button now to take out some of the tedium on new units. 2. Y... [read more]
12/5/2015 By Frogboy in Sorcerer King Dev Journals
Mercy is for the weak. Crush your enemies -- and your friends! -- one share at a time with the new "No Buyout!" Mode in Offworld Trading Company Beta 8! The new "No Buyout" mode makes it so that rival corporations must buy out your shares one at a time instead of all at once. When your shares are out, you are eliminated from the game. Full Change Log: New stock mode: “No Buyout!”, new music, and leaderboards for multiplayer... [read more]
12/2/2015 By Island Dog in Offworld News
Tom's Hardware has an interview with Dan Baker on the Nitrous Engine, DirectX 12, and multi-GPU support. "Baker suspects that Oxide Games and the Nitrous Engine are just the pioneers of an industry-wide change in how graphics are rendered in the future. He was reluctant to elaborate, but when I asked if he thought this will be used in VR, he allowed, "I would say yes." It’s fine to get excited about a new game -- Ashes of the Singularity may well be a terrifi... [read more]
12/2/2015 By Island Dog in Ashes of the Singularity News
A New Title Appears! Fallen Enchantress: Ultimate Edition AND Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion - Ultimate Edition are now available on GOG.com! Come and get the Ultimate Editions for two of Stardock's classic games on GOG.com! Fallen Enchantress : Ultimate Edition Rise from the ashes and journey into a dark fantasy world . This set includes Fallen Enchantress , Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes , and al... [read more]
11/30/2015 By Island Dog in Elemental News
Originally posted by Soren Johnson on the Mohawk Games blog. We’ve never been super happy with the original stock system – in which after all of a player’s stock is purchased, another player can buyout that player by paying double for all stock owned by other players. Although the initial period of stock buying is exciting, there is also a long period of time while players are just stockpiling cash for the final buyout, which can be a little boring and also has gam... [read more]
11/20/2015 By Island Dog in Offworld Dev Journals
Stardock will be holding a special Galactic Civilizations stream Monday at 2pm EST at www.Twitch.tv/GOGcom We will have a few people streaming including Paul Boyer (lead designer) and Alan Batsford (AI programmer). I (caffeinated nair-do-well) will also be streaming the creation of a mod. I'm hoing to try adding governments to the game as a mod. There will be 3 first tier government types (Polystate, Technocracy and the Overcouncil) and each of these has 2 specializations. ... [read more]
11/20/2015 By DerekPaxton in GalCiv III News
Update v.64 for Ashes of the Singularity is here! We are making our way out of Alpha and toward Beta, but we're not quite there yet. The Dev Team has been working on refining game play details, bug fixes, and other game improvements like new maps, some improved destruction graphics (who doesn't love a good explosion?), and a new Power Amplifier building. The addition of the Power Amplifier allows players to double their re... [read more]
11/19/2015 By Island Dog in Ashes of the Singularity News
Ashes of the Singularity has been nominated as Best Innovators in the Game-Debate.com Global Game Awards 2015. Vote now! http://www.game-debate.com/awards/2015/nominee/ashes-of-the-singularity [read more]
11/18/2015 By Island Dog in Ashes of the Singularity News
Game-Debate.com has a Global Games Award going and has nominated Galactic Civilizations III as best Sci-Fi game. Head over and cast your vote! http://www.game-debate.com/awards/2015/nominee/galactic-civilizations-iii [read more]
11/18/2015 By Island Dog in GalCiv III News
Originally posted by Soren Johnson on the Mohawk Games blog. The Fifth Offworld Twitch Tournament (the first one with teams) has finished, and the best-of-5 finals was between PBHead/Roler and Blues/Zuzani. The streams were broadcast by Zultar , and the first game is linked below. The final bracket can be viewed here: http://challonge.com/offworld5 . [read more]
11/18/2015 By Island Dog in Offworld Dev Journals
GamePolitics.com has an interview with Stardock CEO Brad Wardell on The Political Machine 2016. " How do you think the issues have changed since the last game – the important issues voters care about – are they the same or have they changed dramatically? Wardell: They are quite a bit different this time. When you have don’t have an incumbent everything kind of goes up in the air. Last time tax cuts and Obamacare were the major issues; this time we’ve got... [read more]
11/18/2015 By Island Dog in Political Machine News
The next Sorcerer King dev livestream is today at 3pm ET! Mod Workshop #3 today - our users continue to help us create our frozen wasteland because Scott can't just "Let it Go." Join us and follow our Stardock Twitch channel - http://www.twitch.tv/stardock After the live broadcast today, we’ll post the replay on our YouTube channel so you can catch up on the latest episodes. Update : Replay is on YouTube. [read more]
11/18/2015 By Island Dog in Sorcerer King News
Let the Mudslinging Begin! Dodge mud and sling some of your own as you fight against other candidates for the honor of becoming the next President of the United States. Play as more than 18 candidates including Bernie Sanders , Donald Trump , Hillary Clinton , and more! Not a fan of the candidates? Create your own custom front runner and take to the campaign trail to out talk, outsmart, and out spend your opponent to win the heats and mind... [read more]
11/17/2015 By Island Dog in Political Machine News
A New Title Appears! Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion - Ultimate Edition AND Fallen Enchantress: Ultimate Edition are now available on GOG.com! Come and get the Ultimate Editions for two of Stardock's classic games on GOG.com! Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Ultimate Edition Command a space-faring empire in an exciting game that combines 4X depth with real time strategy game play. This set includes&n... [read more]
11/13/2015 By Island Dog in Sins News
You Survived the Cataclysm - Now You Must Survive the War in Fallen Enchantress: Ultimate Edition Rise from the ashes and journey into a dark fantasy world . This set includes Fallen Enchantress , Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes , and all DLC for both games. In these 4X fantasy strategy games, the world of Elemental is at war and it’s up to you to either conquer it or destroy it. Lead your empire as one of 21 sovereigns, such as the traitor Emperor Ka... [read more]
11/13/2015 By Island Dog in Elemental News
The next Sorcerer King dev livestream is today at 3pm ET! Join Scott for Lesson #2 of our Modding Walkthrough as we continue to create a frozen wasteland! Join us and follow our Stardock Twitch channel - http://www.twitch.tv/stardock After the live broadcast today, we’ll post the replay on our YouTube channel so you can catch up on the latest episodes. Update : Replay is on YouTube. [read more]
11/11/2015 By Island Dog in Sorcerer King News
In response to your feedback on update 1.4 for Galactic Civilizations III , the Dev Team has made it so that you may optionally re-enable the old planetary production wheel through a pref.ini setting. The reason the wheel is no longer part of the main game is two-fold. First, we don't want players to feel like they must micromanage every planet to this level in order to get an optimal result. Second, the result of such micro management was compelling in that it coul... [read more]
11/4/2015 By Tatiora in GalCiv III News
You've been asking when a new update for Ashes of the Singularity would be here -- surprise, it's today! This update sees numerous bug fixes and improvements to game play, graphics, UI, and more. The Development Team has been keeping an eye on your feedback, so please continue to share your thoughts with us! Check out the full change log below. Gameplay Orbital abilities use quanta instead of radioactives Opponents default to beginner... [read more]
11/3/2015 By Tatiora in Ashes of the Singularity News
With GalCiv III v1.4, we’ve removed the per planet production wheel. You can read more about that here . This has sparked a lively debate on just how much control a player should have on their economy. Planet Specialization Planets in Galactic Civilizations III can be specialized much more than in previous versions. An industrial world, through adjacencies, can result in massive bonus manufacturing. However, on top of that, players can direct thei... [read more]
10/31/2015 By Frogboy in GalCiv III Dev Journals
Originally posted by Soren Johnson on the Mohawk Games blog. We are announcing the Fifth Offworld Twitch Tournament! Here are the rules: The tournament uses a single-elimination bracket of 8 two-player teams. All tournament matches are 2v2, on a medium map with default settings. The format for winning is best-of-3, except for the finals, which will be best-of-5. If a team is not responsive to finding a time or does not show up to the match, they... [read more]
10/30/2015 By Island Dog in Offworld Dev Journals
Yesterday was the long-waited big update to Galactic Civilizations III. Version 1.4 added many many AI and UI updates to the game based on months of player feedback. You can see the news here: https://forums.galciv3.com/472349/ !! UPDATE !! READ THIS: https://forums.galciv3.com/472865/ We’re pretty happy with the response overall. But there is one change I’d like to discuss with you guys: THE WHEEL. Who am I? I’m Brad W... [read more]
10/30/2015 By Frogboy in GalCiv III Dev Journals
New version of GalCiv makes the AI more fiendish, bigger galaxies easier to manage and much more! For those of you not familiar with Galactic Civilizations III a quick recap. GalCiv III is a game where you choose an interstellar civilization to lead in the 23rd century. One of these includes Earth in the year 2250. What sets it apart is the scale and modability of it. You can literally build up your own galaxy to play in. When people say it’s the ultimate sand bo... [read more]
10/29/2015 By Island Dog in GalCiv III News
New version of GalCiv makes the AI more fiendish, bigger galaxies easier to manage and much more! For those of you not familiar with Galactic Civilizations III a quick recap. GalCiv III is a game where you choose an interstellar civilization to lead in the 23rd century. One of these includes Earth in the year 2250. What sets it apart is the scale and modability of it. You can literally build up your own galaxy to play in. When people say it’s the ultimate sand ... [read more]
10/29/2015 By Frogboy in GalCiv III Dev Journals
Majority buyout and subsidiaries have been added to Beta 7. The brand new UI is also live in this update . The team continues to work on performance and bug fixes while continuing to add new game play content. We appreciate the continued support from our great community! You can see the full list of changes here: https://forums.offworldgame.com/472417 Every Thursday at 10am ET you can watch our developer livestream on the Mohawk Games Twitch channel... [read more]
10/28/2015 By Island Dog in Offworld News
The DirectX 12 Developer Blog has a special guest post from Stardock's Brad Wardell on DirectX and Ashes of the Singularity. "Ashes also uses a new type of 3D engine that is based on the hardware capabilities of modern PCs. For example, it doesn’t use deferred rendering but rather uses Object Space Rendering (OSR) which is similar to how CGI in movies have been rendered except we’re able to do it in real-time. While we are able to present this on Direct... [read more]
10/27/2015 By Island Dog in Ashes of the Singularity News
The moment has arrived: Ashes of the Singularity is in Steam Early Access today! A real-time strategy game on a scale never before seen where even the smallest units have diverse, independent weapons systems and every shot fired has its own targeting solution and ballistics model, Ashes of the Singularity explores entirely new and engaging game play fundamentals coupled with jaw-dropping visuals. With literally thousands of units acting independently on screen at the sa... [read more]
10/22/2015 By Island Dog in GalCiv III News
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