{"id":201,"date":"2014-10-09T12:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T16:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defiancegamestudio.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2014-10-09T12:34:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T16:34:33","slug":"alienware-partners-archmage-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/defiancegamestudio.com\/index.php\/alienware-partners-archmage-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Blog #10 Alienware partners with Archmage Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have some\u00a0very<\/em>\u00a0exciting news to share!\u00a0 Not being able to talk about it has been killing me for the last four weeks\u2014but now the contract is signed, and I can (finally) scream from the top of my lungs. Are you ready?<\/p>\n

In my first dev blog,\u00a0I shared my personal journey<\/a>\u00a0and why I was moving from mobile to PC game development. It kind of\u00a0took off<\/em>. The article was #1 on\u00a0Gamasutra<\/em>\u00a0for 3 days straight and soon blew past 100 comments. (It now sits at a little over 200.)<\/p>\n

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Yeah, I still can’t believe I beat out that Blizzard article.\u00a0 And I LIKED their article.<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael Dell read my post, too.\u00a0 Yes\u2014that<\/em>\u00a0Michael Dell.\u00a0 The founder of Dell Inc.\u00a0 He passed it on to the senior management of Alienware (Dell’s premium gaming computer line), and they reached out to me and asked,\u00a0“How can we help make\u00a0Archmage Rises<\/em>\u00a0a reality?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I was speechless.<\/p>\n

As I talked with them more, I realized that Alienware is by gamers for gamers.\u00a0 They aren’t stuffy corporate types\u2014just cool, real people who love games.\u00a0 I told them that\u00a0Archmage Rises<\/em>\u00a0is more about substance than GPU-pushing eye candy.\u00a0 They said this is totally cool, they love all kinds of games, and\u00a0Archmage Rises<\/em>\u00a0looks like a really good RPG they want to partner with.<\/p>\n

So we signed a partnership deal last Friday. I’ll briefly mention just two benefits:<\/p>\n

1) They will be helping get\u00a0Archmage Rises<\/em>\u00a0out to millions of fans through their social media and\u00a0AlienwareArena.com<\/a>\u00a0website.\u00a0 The game will have a featured section on their website as soon as I get them all the art assets.<\/p>\n

2) Alienware is providing me with the latest hardware to develop the game.<\/p>\n

This partnership enables me to implement AlienFX.\u00a0 If you aren’t familiar with AlienFx, it\u2019s a special lighting system built in under the keyboards of Alienware laptops and the cases of Alienware desktops.\u00a0 The game is able to make the light appear in different colors and patterns.\u00a0 So in a dark room the AlienFx enhances your physical space as you play the game, which really helps with immersion.\u00a0 I look forward to working some “magic” with AlienFx and the spell casting of\u00a0Archmage Rises.<\/em>\u00a0(The bad puns end here, I promise).<\/p>\n

Never in a million years would I have thought I would be able to say this, but:<\/p>\n

Archmage Rises<\/em>\u00a0runs best on Alienware!<\/p>\n

Now if that isn’t exciting enough, I have a special gift to commemorate the 10th<\/sup>\u00a0dev blog:\u00a0The first\u00a0Archmage Rises<\/em>\u00a0desktop background.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rogier has been working on this Inn scene for a while.\u00a0 When I saw the first proofs, I thought it was incredible–so I wanted to share it with all of you!\u00a0\u00a0Here is a link to various resolutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you are on the\u00a0Archmage Rises<\/em>\u00a0newsletter<\/a>\u00a0or a member of the\u00a0Dragonlance Adventures\u00a0<\/em>Facebook group<\/a>, I’ve created a special limited edition version with an homage to Raistlin Majere. After all, he’s the original inspiration for\u00a0Archmage Rises<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So overall, this has been a very exciting week in the development of\u00a0Archmage Rises<\/em>!<\/p>\n

SDG!<\/p>\n

You can follow the game\u00a0I’m working on,\u00a0<\/em>Archmage Rises<\/em><\/a>, by joining the\u00a0<\/em>newsletter<\/em><\/a>\u00a0or chatting with me about it on the\u00a0<\/em>Facebook page<\/em><\/a>. You can tweet me\u00a0<\/em>@LordYabo<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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