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Title: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on April 01, 2012, 02:03:09 PM
http://www.facebook.com/notes/masters-of-the-broken-world-non-linear-turn-based-strategy-with-karma/city-screen-dilemma/350198685022712

Here a part of soundtrack http://soundcloud.com/lekken-1/legends-of-whispering-forest2

I think it will be a great game
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: LongBlade on April 01, 2012, 02:16:36 PM
Looks promising. Keep us posted.
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Seytan on April 02, 2012, 12:43:34 AM
Looks interesting. I havnt touched Elemental since it came out. Hopefully this game will turn out to be good stuff.
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Imperium on April 12, 2012, 09:47:00 AM
Hey, guys!

I'm part of Snowbird Games (formerly known as Snowberry Connection) and we're making some very good progress with the game.

If you have any questions about the project please feel free to ask me.

Here are some of the latest updates:

We're talking about events generation system - http://www.strategyinformer.com/editorials/17226/masters-of-the-broken-world-diary---events

A piece of new in-game music: http://soundcloud.com/lekken-1/legends-of-whispering-forest2

Enjoy :)
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Gusington on April 12, 2012, 09:51:32 AM
^Welcome. Is this Snowbird's first PC title? Have any of your staff worked on previous similar games?
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: LongBlade on April 12, 2012, 10:42:02 AM
Quote from: Imperium on April 12, 2012, 09:47:00 AM
Hey, guys!

I'm part of Snowbird Games (formerly known as Snowberry Connection) and we're making some very good progress with the game.

If you have any questions about the project please feel free to ask me.

Here are some of the latest updates:

We're talking about events generation system - http://www.strategyinformer.com/editorials/17226/masters-of-the-broken-world-diary---events

A piece of new in-game music: http://soundcloud.com/lekken-1/legends-of-whispering-forest2

Enjoy :)

Welcome!

The game looks interesting. The soundtrack sounds great.

Of course we'll want to have coverage of the game here. When can we get a preview copy?

How'd you hear about us? (Tell your friends!)
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on April 13, 2012, 11:16:08 AM
A new piece of soundtrack on their facebook page: http://soundcloud.com/lekken-1/in-the-name-of-glory
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on April 16, 2012, 01:49:23 PM
good news here: http://www.wargamer.com/forums/goto.asp?post=614783

Planed for October, beta in August\September
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Imperium on April 17, 2012, 08:13:25 AM
Quote from: Gusington on April 12, 2012, 09:51:32 AM
^Welcome. Is this Snowbird's first PC title? Have any of your staff worked on previous similar games?

Well Snowbird consists mostly of the same people as in Snowberry. Still it's the first game in this genre we're producing and at the same time most ambitious :)
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Gusington on April 17, 2012, 09:19:06 AM
^Good luck Imperium...we will be keeping on eye out for release.
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Imperium on April 18, 2012, 03:33:40 AM
A few new screenshots :)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FyYoLb.jpg%3F1&hash=4ef0825a524eb12565ebb1b4a0e16a03b62a93cc)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fua0xX.jpg%3F1&hash=60c892c3f87cb73d05c4d780d0881c480e7212ad)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FA7eJ8.jpg%3F1&hash=90530e74377c22552ed37e517caab49bed232bf6)
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Gusington on April 18, 2012, 09:24:55 AM
Cool art style.
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Martok on April 27, 2012, 04:37:47 AM
^ Indeed.  I really like the visuals.  Hopefully it will have strong gameplay to match it! 
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on April 28, 2012, 09:10:41 AM
New track of game music: http://soundcloud.com/lekken-1/fairy-tree
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Kushan on April 29, 2012, 09:30:36 PM
Really like the art style. Any plans for a beta?
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on April 30, 2012, 10:06:36 AM
they told for august\september
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on May 29, 2012, 01:25:04 PM
Open the official website: http://www.snowbirdgames.com/eador/?lang=en


There is also a beautiful trailer with gameplay

http://www.snowbirdgames.com/eador/video/?lang=en
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Martok on May 29, 2012, 08:04:00 PM
Beat you to it, bud.  :) 


http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=1640.0

Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on June 15, 2012, 02:04:06 PM
New images of wather effects

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsnowbirdstudios.org%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F06%2F12.06.04.23.39.32.png&hash=070de3bd1acd641f3ff6c39dea3e70064bec8f2f)
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsnowbirdstudios.org%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F06%2F12.06.04.20.06.54.png&hash=c6b3bb27c2dbd65425e0238a746fcc2ad20004d1)
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Martok on June 15, 2012, 02:18:27 PM
Well there definitely ain't nothing wrong with the game's visuals!  Now we just gotta see what the actual gameplay is like. 

Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on June 18, 2012, 03:00:32 PM
interview on armchair general: http://www.armchairgeneral.com/eador-masters-of-the-broken-world-pc-game-interview.htm
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on June 29, 2012, 11:01:01 AM
http://www.ctrlaltelite.se/2012/06/27/intervju-med-vladimir-tortsov-angaende-eador-masters-of-the-broken-world/

the interview is in english only the intro is in swedish
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on July 08, 2012, 04:09:44 PM
Interview by nohighscores http://www.nohighscores.com/2012/07/05/eador-masters-of-the-broken-world-epic-sized-interview/
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Imperium on September 04, 2012, 05:08:53 AM
Hey guys.

I wanted to let you know that we submitted Eador to Steam Greenlight. If you're interested in the project appearing on Steam you could help it get there. Here's the link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93959913&searchtext=

Thanks :)
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: FarAway Sooner on September 04, 2012, 09:17:37 PM
Done.  I for one am intrigued!
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: LongBlade on September 05, 2012, 08:15:55 AM
Quote from: Imperium on September 04, 2012, 05:08:53 AM
Hey guys.

I wanted to let you know that we submitted Eador to Steam Greenlight. If you're interested in the project appearing on Steam you could help it get there. Here's the link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93959913&searchtext=

Thanks :)

Great news.

Is there a chance we can get some preview code to write about on the front page?
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Tpek on September 05, 2012, 11:48:50 AM
Quote from: Imperium on September 04, 2012, 05:08:53 AM
Hey guys.

I wanted to let you know that we submitted Eador to Steam Greenlight. If you're interested in the project appearing on Steam you could help it get there. Here's the link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93959913&searchtext=

Thanks :)

Is there an actual release date (outside of Steam) though?
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: FarAway Sooner on September 05, 2012, 11:11:51 PM
And will there be a demo?  Love the artistic style and the concept, but the execution on such an audacious combination of features can be challenging!!
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Imperium on September 13, 2012, 07:22:33 AM
Thanks for your help guys.

The actual release date is still not defined but it's going to come out before the year's end most probably.

Yeah, there will be a demo and beta test.

And as promised we released a short video that explains the gameplay basics. Hope you'll like it.  It's up on our Greenlight page: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93959913
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on September 22, 2012, 04:28:54 AM
Interview on tacticular cancer: http://www.tacticularcancer.com/content.php?id=3817
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Huw the Poo on September 22, 2012, 06:09:36 AM
Quote from: mitra76 on September 22, 2012, 04:28:54 AM
tacticular cancer

Pun it may be, but that's such a horrid name for a website that I don't want to even go there!
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: bob48 on September 22, 2012, 06:44:18 AM
Agreed, Huw, with good reason.
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on September 22, 2012, 07:57:25 AM
I agree with you but the fault is not of the game; me too I had relatives died for cancer, but for copyright reason I cannot copy and paste the text alone here
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: LongBlade on September 22, 2012, 01:40:41 PM
Quote from: mitra76 on September 22, 2012, 07:57:25 AM
I agree with you but the fault is not of the game; me too I had relatives died for cancer, but for copyright reason I cannot copy and paste the text alone here

I would be pleased to interview you here if you'd like :)
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on September 22, 2012, 01:58:57 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on September 22, 2012, 01:40:41 PM
Quote from: mitra76 on September 22, 2012, 07:57:25 AM
I agree with you but the fault is not of the game; me too I had relatives died for cancer, but for copyright reason I cannot copy and paste the text alone here

I would be pleased to interview you here if you'd like :)

I think you must ask to Imperium, i'm not from the game team.
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: LongBlade on September 22, 2012, 03:03:42 PM
Quote from: mitra76 on September 22, 2012, 01:58:57 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on September 22, 2012, 01:40:41 PM
Quote from: mitra76 on September 22, 2012, 07:57:25 AM
I agree with you but the fault is not of the game; me too I had relatives died for cancer, but for copyright reason I cannot copy and paste the text alone here

I would be pleased to interview you here if you'd like :)

I think you must ask to Imperium, i'm not from the game team.

OK, thanks!
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: FarAway Sooner on September 23, 2012, 11:50:29 PM
Hard to blame the name of the reviewing website on a developer team building a game that's being previewed.

The features and complex relationships between the different features make this seem really appealing to me.  A bit like the old HoMM games, but with a campaign where you have more control over the individual battles and those battles have more implications for the next battles.

The only two pitfalls that I see are: 1) The developers are trying to put A LOT of features and content into the game that all interact with each other.  Play-balancing that can be really hard, and lend itself to certain strategies standing head-and-shoulders above the other.  2) Systems like that where lots of different pieces interact with each other tend to be very hard to model from an AI decision-making standpoint.  The HoMM gameplay is second to none, but as the games got more open-ended and the special abilities got more open-ended, the AI decisionmaking proved woefully unable to navigate those balances.  Complex interactions between certain unit abilities and certain spells eluded the AI at all times (e.g., Griffins have "Unlimited Counter-attack", so fielding a huge stack of Griffins and putting a "First Strike" spell on them made them almost unstoppable--and the AI could never dream of coming up with such a tactic).

If the game system is great, but the AI isn't a credible opponent, players win a straight-up fight every time using the same exploits, and the game gets old in a hurry.

If they can overcome these two obstacles, I'd buy this game in heartbeat.
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Huw the Poo on September 24, 2012, 12:32:50 AM
Quote from: FarAway Sooner on September 23, 2012, 11:50:29 PM
Hard to blame the name of the reviewing website on a developer team building a game that's being previewed.

Oh jeez, all I said was I hate the name of the website.  No comment on the game at all!
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: FarAway Sooner on September 24, 2012, 10:52:49 AM
Shoot, Huw, I'll just bring the issue up 3 or 4 more times before I let it rest!!

;D
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: mitra76 on September 24, 2012, 12:05:53 PM
Quote from: FarAway Sooner on September 23, 2012, 11:50:29 PM
Hard to blame the name of the reviewing website on a developer team building a game that's being previewed.

The features and complex relationships between the different features make this seem really appealing to me.  A bit like the old HoMM games, but with a campaign where you have more control over the individual battles and those battles have more implications for the next battles.

The only two pitfalls that I see are: 1) The developers are trying to put A LOT of features and content into the game that all interact with each other.  Play-balancing that can be really hard, and lend itself to certain strategies standing head-and-shoulders above the other.  2) Systems like that where lots of different pieces interact with each other tend to be very hard to model from an AI decision-making standpoint.  The HoMM gameplay is second to none, but as the games got more open-ended and the special abilities got more open-ended, the AI decisionmaking proved woefully unable to navigate those balances.  Complex interactions between certain unit abilities and certain spells eluded the AI at all times (e.g., Griffins have "Unlimited Counter-attack", so fielding a huge stack of Griffins and putting a "First Strike" spell on them made them almost unstoppable--and the AI could never dream of coming up with such a tactic).

If the game system is great, but the AI isn't a credible opponent, players win a straight-up fight every time using the same exploits, and the game gets old in a hurry.

If they can overcome these two obstacles, I'd buy this game in heartbeat.

Well I think we will have the possibility to test and help to improve during the public beta. Anyway I know the engine used and it permits also the mod the AI, so the possibility to improves the AI reactions are infinites
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Imperium on October 19, 2012, 07:45:42 AM
Hey guys. We made a new video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai48GnjIeKo) about strategic level in Eador.

We also opened official forum (http://www.snowbirdgames.com/forum/index.php) for our games. Be sure to come by :)
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: LongBlade on October 19, 2012, 08:02:10 AM
Hi Imperium. It's coming along nicely!
Title: Re: Masters Of The Broken World will have more than 170 buildings type
Post by: Imperium on October 19, 2012, 08:14:57 AM
Thanks :)