The smoothest part of the development cycle for Eternal Warlords: Arena so far has been the building of the art assets. Design began in October 2006 and the rendered frames of the animation was complete by January 2007. I attribute this primarily to the skill and work ethic of the contractor. As a first time [...]

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Time management has never been my strong suit. My natural inclination is to procrastinate. This proclivity is aggravated as a project’s timeline extends. Maiden of Pain clearly established a threshold of one year for me. It requires a monumental effort of will on my part to generate energy and enthusiasm for a task after that [...]

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I’ve been asked about an update on the development of Eternal Warlords: Arena. I posted a little over 2 months ago that we had about 3 weeks of development work left before we had a fully functional alpha version.
What I have failed to account for, time and again, is that these time estimates are based [...]

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I spent a good chunk of time Saturday listening to various interpretations of death screams and sword clashes in my hunt for sound effects. As with anything “free,” the quality varies. Samples range from fairly professional to obvious recordings of other sound effects.
Sound is a highly subjective medium. It often requires a visual context in [...]

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We are now officially 3 weeks from an alpha release of Eternal Warlords: Arena. Chris (Wan Gai’s secret identity) finally triumphed over our rebellious Suse Linux Enterprise server this weekend. We hooked it up in the colo data center yesterday–and had a brief moment of panic when we couldn’t ping the gateway before we realized [...]

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