Today I spent a lot of time working on the story elements and timeline for Elemental to make sure it goes along with the book. There, I said it. There’s going to be a book that comes out at roughly the same time as the game.
There’s ten thousand years of history to work through, quite a big difference from what we’ve done in the past where we had just enough story manifested for the game (like in Galactic Civilizations) to proceed.
Having the game and the book being developed at the same time is proving to be marvelous as it allows the game to have a lot more depth even though it’s “only” a strategy game. The scriptable engine allows each so-called sandbox game to have a truly unique life of its own because there’s just such a massive amount of lore to tap into.
Of course, since I worked on that, I wasn’t able to do my walk thru of the alpha. I plan to get on that tomorrow.
I'm glad to hear there is such a project in the works. If this game is done correctly it would surely warrant such a thing.
Who is the author? Will it be published in paperback? Hardback would be cool too.
For real game tie in we need something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure
Wow that brings me back in time. I read that book (several times of course) in elementary school back in the 80s.
Oh geez... I even still OWN a couple of those type of books.
Social life is overrated.
With their cousins from Escape from Tenopia.
I remember being absolutely mystified the first time I read that book, and I wasn't dissapointed with very many of the other ones in the series. Unless something has changed with kids in the last 30 years she should have a good time.
Exactly what I had in mind! I loved those "chose your own adventure" books.
I remember the first time I got ahold of one of those books..... I tried to read it cover-to-cover .......
The book would be a hard cover book (first year and soft cover second year) at the local book store.
I was always partial to Fighting Fantasy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_fantasy
Ah fighting fantasy I remeber that, the school libary had shelves of them. i must have played through almost all of them: despite the fact that they ended up being very samey. I think my favorite was: Knigths of doom, followed very closely by Crimson Tide.
My memory of exactly what happened in them is slighlty hazy, but the covers and the titles are just so "fun".
So now FFH2 and elemental both have their creators writing books on it.
Idea for 2017- Crossover game? New age of Turn-based fantasy?
Yeah, four more weeks till beta- finally means no more 150ms lag nights of TF2 at work.
Just be glad this isn't Japan- or you'd be getting Elemental Doujinshi.
Nice, didn't realize they were writing a book for FFH2. I am going to have to upgrade Civ4 pretty soon, I've been playing with vanilla Civ4 version of FFH2 and the upgraded ones are supposed to be quite a bit better.
Hey, I read that!
Choose your own adventure book for elemental? Id buy it whether it was good or not, just for nostalgia.
lol its all good, just a friendly jab.
As always. Face-to-face contact is overrated, anyways.
Wrong kind of contact then...
is there going to be a beta version of the book if we pre-order it
Nice, I like my books hardcover when possible.
Any chance of a PDF of it in the collector's edition?
Will the book be released before or after Elemental is? If after, you could include a disc with a demo of Elemental on it.
Also, any chance of you posting parts of it for people to comment on during the beta?
Finally, does publishing this book increase the chance of you completing and publishing the Galactic Civilizations stories you have talked about before?
god I hope not, I'd like to know the back story without my eyes bleeding.
Awesome news regarding the book. Another pre-order option for me no problem.
Burn baby..
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