DerekStardock Entertainment, developer and publisher of award-winning PC games, announced today that Derek Paxton has joined the studio as senior producer and will oversee Stardock's ongoing development and expansions of the recently released fantasy strategy game, Elemental: War of Magic. Paxton is the creator and lead designer of the Fall from Heaven series of fantasy strategy games. Prior to joining Stardock, he was an external consultant for Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword and contributed to several of Firaxis's games including the recent Civilization V.

"This is the opportunity to marry my professional project manager career with my passion for game design," said Paxton. "I'm especially excited to work with the talented people at Stardock who have always been focused on creating great PC strategy games. I'm currently immersing myself in the world of Elemental, and I think everyone will be excited to see what is coming from Stardock Entertainment."

Stardock CEO, Brad Wardell, will serve as the executive producer and lead AI developer on Elemental.

Wardell stated, "Stardock has experienced continued growth from its various gaming and enterprise products as well as our digital distribution platform, Impulse. As a result of our loyal fan base and successes, we have been fortunate to be able to attract some of the top talent from across the industry. Derek brings to Stardock a unique blend of strategy game design knowledge and a great deal of project management experience from his non-gaming career."

As with all Stardock releases, the company is dedicated to providing post-release support for Elemental: War of Magic with free updates to enhance game play and ensure that the game evolves over time to its potential.

www.elementalgame.com


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on Oct 12, 2010

This is exactly what EWoM needed - creative inspiration.  FfH2 was undoubtedly one of the best mods I've ever played and signing this guy is a windfall for Stardock.  Now, they just have to let him loose on this largely unfinished game.  I'm really excited to see what he cranks out.  Good luck, Kael!

on Oct 12, 2010

Yes! Much congratulatoriness to Stardockians and the Kael. Really congrats to all, as this promises to be what the company, the game, the Kael, and the customers need. Win win and drinks all around!

Cheers.

on Oct 12, 2010

Having seen FFH I am looking forward to what Kael can add to EWOM.    I hope we get a blend of the best from both.   Congratulations Stardock and wlecome Kael!

on Oct 12, 2010

One thing I'm hoping to hear soon, is what exactly Kael's ideas are.

on Oct 12, 2010

Frankly, I doubt you could have picked a better person to have filled this job and to bring back Elemental. Brilliant choice here.

on Oct 12, 2010

I am very excited to see this news, and look forward to the future.  Congratulations to all involved parties.

on Oct 12, 2010

Congrats and Welcome

on Oct 12, 2010

I'm only minorly disappointed as this makes FFH mod for Civ V extremely unlikely. However, I'm super excited about this~

on Oct 13, 2010

Well, this is nice. It seems to indicate that Elemental will soon have much more engaging fluff, at the very least. That's something that I was a bit worried about.

I'm surprised that Kael hasn't posted in this thread. Does he know it exists?

on Oct 13, 2010

I for one welcome our new overlord. 

 

This is great news for Elemental's future, having another member on the team who is particularly known for his work in fantasy turn-based strategy games will be a great asset for Stardock. It can only get better from here on.

on Oct 13, 2010

Is it just me, or is Mr. Paxton looking like a younger version of Brad Wardell.

Thats creepy.

 

Welcome Mr. Paxton.

on Oct 13, 2010

Welcomed news Froggy hopefully can have more time to prepare the killer AI and don't struggle all the time with project tasks. And Kael hopefully brings in some visions to bring EWoM to the next level

I only hope that Kael will - and is allowed - to share ideas about plans / changes / implementation like Frogboy shared with us And hopefully, we will have more a mod-driven style of updates to the game compared to the 'super-big' patches other companies do. I would really like to see updates / changes in the same line like it happened with 1.00 to 1.09

on Oct 13, 2010

Congratulations for your new job, Derek!

Could you and Brad please tell us who will be responsible for the game design of Elemental: War of Magic from now on? You? Brad? Someone else? Split duties? Split how? The press release does not make this clear.

on Oct 13, 2010

I don't know what exactly Kael has done for the Fall From Heaven mods so I don't feel much excitement.

 

But if he truly is that great designer that you people seem to believe, then great!   We really need one!

on Oct 13, 2010

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I don't know what exactly Kael has done for the Fall From Heaven mods so I don't feel much excitement.

 

But if he truly that great designer that you people seem to believe, then great!   We really need one!

well if you are here and have elemental you might like FFH2, check out what a copy of Civ IV complete would cost - (its about the equivalent of $10 on amazon UK) then go download FFH2 and you can check out the results.

Alternatively  if you question is what makes him so good going through http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=190 would give you some idea of his input to the modding process.

He also co wrote the Civ V modders guide with Dale see http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=385009  We could do with one of these for Elemental  soon - I'm sure Raven X, Heavenfall and others would appreciate it.

(as well as a FFH 3 mod later)

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