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Scrying Room overhaul

As promised the guys over at the Scrying Room have done a major overhaul. They have added loads of new stuff that makes for a very interesting read. Obviously they have put some hard work, and we would like to…

Black & White Finally Gold!

After all this time, all these long months of wondering when the most anticipated game of the recent past is going to arrive, the puncuation point of development happens for the team at Lionhead Studios and Peter Molyneux. Here’s the…

Monster Groups

Gamer asks about how grouping monsters will work: So, I know we can assign custom AI scripts to creatures, in order to give them a specific behavior, like the werewolf pack. I’m wondering, however, if we can assign creatures to…

More Ways To Cast

Gamer is worried about casting in real time: …in a heat of a battle it would be quite difficult to select a desired spell and cast it using the current menu system. This is also the problem (in my opinion)…

Combat Animation

Gamer asks for a sample of the combat animation: I was wondering how far along is the animating of combat in the game?…can you give any more details on how extensive this system is going to be? How many points…

Height Transitions in Tilesets

Gamer asks about how the tilesets will handle height transitions: Height transitions updates?…1.) Will height transitions be limited to 1 raise/lower next to the adjoining tiles?2.) If there are tilesets that will allow for more than one height transition at…

Getting a Full List of Skills and Feats…?

Gamer asks for a full list: Can we get a list of skills and feats? …I don’t think we’re planning on releasing the complete lists of creatures, spells, item types, items, magic items, script functions, tile sets, groups, features, skills,…

Atriarch Creature Month

At the official page for the forthcoming MMORPG Atriarch, there are some really cool things happening this month. They just kicked off what they call “Creature Month” (last month was “Story Month”) and a really fun utitily called The Creature…

Question of the Day Update

Today’s question will look at the how the teams of Baldur’s Gate 2 and Icewind Dale worked together. Was there a competitive element between the Icewind Dale and Baldur’s Gate I/II development teams? Or did you all work together to…

Traps

Gamer asks how traps will work: traps: At this point, the radial names and submenus only show up when you cursor over them (eventually this will be a preference you can set in an options menu) so that might be…