I'm a regular reader of Gamasutra.com and try to remember anything that I think might be useful for the future.  An article that I read today really caught my attention.  It's called Slaying the Dragon and it's about being a small indie developer in an industry full of massive publishers, triple A developers, and heavy marketing.  Things we may never get to use or see, but we still have to compete with them.

The article asks, "So why should someone buy your game instead of Activision’s latest?"  I've thought through many answers to this question since we've started development on the game and I think that I want to write down our answer so that I can come back to it in the future.

Warlord: Tears of Taltos will be one of the first RTS games that allows you to start with an entire army that you built from scratch to start the game.  We will also allow a player to field a small group of elite heroes and remain competitive against an armies of mindless swarms.  Our factions will be diverse and plentiful with up to 20 that may be included in the game before long.

I think that's enough to point out how Warlord is going to be better than other RTS games out there.

Hey, hi all!

My name is Carl Dubreuil and I do some animation for the Warlod game.In the next few week I will try to show you the animation I'm working on for this game.

For this blog I will show you two small animation of the Reptus KhongTo. A walkcycle and the preemptive attack.

Thanx and see you later :D!

A month ago I tried to pull in some artists to do some volunteer work for us so that we could piece together a small video or even a demo of the game in action.  Unfortunatly all 3 of the guys that were doing 3D work didn't finish their models.  Dispite that their not done and may never be finished, I want to post them up and let everyone have a look.

Justicar:  The Justicar is a bread and butter unit for the Crusader Army.  So we thought it would be the perfect model to show our troop movements and unit instantiation.  Anyone familiar with Warlord knows who this guy is.

Long Striker:  The long striker is a reptus unit that has longer reach than other models.   It's a powerhouse compared to most other soldiers.  If we got the battle scripts completed in time we were hoping to show this model tear through some weaker units.  Unfortunatly the model will continue to hang in limbo.