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Draginol's Articles for October, 2016
October 10, 2016 by Draginol
  Right now, Galactic Civilizations III supports:   English French German Russian   Because of the way we made Galactic Civilizations III, translation is very expensive.  There are a lot of words.  But nearly all of it is in the technology descriptions. In this screenshot you see the short-description. And this one shows the long description. Translation costs by the word.  That long description has 38 words and each civiliza...
October 18, 2016 by Draginol
Greetings! Today we are opening up the Founder’s Program to Phase II in preparation for alpha testing (Fall) and beta testing (Winter).  If you haven’t seen the gameplay teaser, you can check it out here: https://youtu.be/K6ntg47q_cM We’re still very early in development as you can see.  The creatures and other cool stuff on the planets weren’t quite ready to show yet and we’re saving the best parts for a later reveal. Feature status ...
October 27, 2016 by Draginol
  My desktop running WindowBlinds, DeskScapes, WindowFX, Fences, Start10 at 5K resolution IconPackager, Tiles and more at 5K resolution   Object Desktop is a suite of desktop enhancement utilities designed to allow users to customize their Windows desktop to work however they want it to work. The core components of it are: WindowBlinds – customize the Windows GUI Fences – organize your desktop IconPackager – customize your icons ...
October 26, 2016 by Draginol
The Basics Massive-scale real-time PC strategy game Requires Windows 7, 8, 10 with 2GB video memory, DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, 4 CPU cores. Stand-alone expansion to Ashes of the Singularity. Includes everything from the base game plus Escalation.     The Specs   The Screenshots       The Details 12 new missions further chronicle the story of Ashes of the Singularity: Campaign 1: Memories- See the events of Imminent Crisis fro...
October 26, 2016 by Draginol
The Basics Massive-scale real-time PC strategy game Requires Windows 7, 8, 10 with 2GB video memory, DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, 4 CPU cores. Stand-alone expansion to Ashes of the Singularity. Includes everything from the base game plus Escalation.     The Specs   The Screenshots       The Details 12 new missions further chronicle the story of Ashes of the Singularity: Campaign 1: Memories- See the events of Imminent Crisis fro...
October 9, 2016 by Draginol
If you are like me you are probably the guy that people call for help on their computer.  Recently, I discovered the Intel Device Advisor . It’s as brilliant in its concept as it is straight-forward in its implementation. Here’s how it works: You download it and run it.  It stays in the background for a long while (as in, days).  It then reports to you, based on your uses, things you might need and where you can get them.  This is something Windows sh...
October 17, 2016 by Draginol
  This is going to be long and go into both Escalation, the development of Ashes of the Singularity and discuss the technological singularity. Our story so far… This past Spring Stardock released the real-time strategy game, Ashes of the Singularity.  It’s a game set in the post-technological singularity future in which humans have begun to expand to other planets.  In this future, a single individual is so powerful that they can manage entire armies of...
October 17, 2016 by Draginol
  This is going to be long and go into both Escalation, the development of Ashes of the Singularity and discuss the technological singularity. Our story so far… This past Spring Stardock released the real-time strategy game, Ashes of the Singularity.  It’s a game set in the post-technological singularity future in which humans have begun to expand to other planets.  In this future, a single individual is so powerful that they can manage entire armies of...
October 26, 2016 by Draginol
Greetings! We’re releasing the biggest DLC for Offworld Trading Company yet today.  It adds a lot of new content and is, btw, only $4.99. The Campaign The Patron and the Patriot is a DLC pack focused on enhancing the single player campaign mode within Offworld Trading Company. The campaign mode that shipped with the base game operates like a competitive tournament that lasts for seven games. There are nine characters to play, each with their own set of perks...
October 21, 2016 by Draginol
For this journal, I’m going to, in story form, give you a guided tour of Escalation.   Background.. Escalation is the first expansion pack to Stardock’s massive-scale RTS, Ashes of the Singularity.  It is sold as a stand-alone expansion with its pricing determined based on whether you already have Ashes of the Singularity or not.  To learn more, visit www.ashesofthesingularity.com .   The year is 2180… The human race is at an inflecti...
October 21, 2016 by Draginol
For this journal, I’m going to, in story form, give you a guided tour of Escalation.   Background.. Escalation is the first expansion pack to Stardock’s massive-scale RTS, Ashes of the Singularity.  It is sold as a stand-alone expansion with its pricing determined based on whether you already have Ashes of the Singularity or not.  To learn more, visit www.ashesofthesingularity.com .   The year is 2180… The human race is at an inflecti...
October 11, 2016 by Draginol
  ESCALATE ON NOVEMBER 3 On November 3, Ashes of the Singularity gets its first expansion pack: Escalation.  It’s a stand-alone expansion which means that if you don’t already have Ashes of the Singularity, you can just buy Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation and get everything that’s in the base game too.   TOTAL ANNIHILATION vs. SUPREME COMMANDER There are a lot of reasons we decided to separate the base game from Escalation.  Much of this...
October 11, 2016 by Draginol
  ESCALATE ON NOVEMBER 3 On November 3, Ashes of the Singularity gets its first expansion pack: Escalation.  It’s a stand-alone expansion which means that if you don’t already have Ashes of the Singularity, you can just buy Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation and get everything that’s in the base game too.   TOTAL ANNIHILATION vs. SUPREME COMMANDER There are a lot of reasons we decided to separate the base game from Escalation.  Much of this...
October 17, 2016 by Draginol
  The first significant update to Sorcerer King: Rivals it out.  Most of it had to do with making the neutrals behave more intelligently (attacking enemies, building things better, etc.).  We also update the UI to make the Ascension spell much more accessible to players. We also had a pretty major improvement to late game performance thanks to a customer who sent me a saved game who was running into this.  The result is that late game should be much much fa...