January 2001
New Arcanum Character Planner
Bringing it up to version 1.11... get it in our downloads section.
News post made Wednesday, January 31, 2001 by Calis
Arcanum at reviewscan.org
Reviewscan.org has done a Review Scan on Arcanum, meaning that they surfed around a bit and put all interesting Arcanum links in one handy place. Since they quote my GA-RPG preview on the page (yippee!), it's a must-read :-)
Thanks go out to Arcanum-X for the news
News post made Tuesday, January 30, 2001 by Calis
New preview at CGO
CGO has a new preview, based on their experiences with the beta. The article contains a fair bit of info and is well-written, although it doesn't provide anything us hardcore fans don't already know.
News post made Monday, January 29, 2001 by Calis
First fanart gallery!
Our fan art section opens today, thanks to Zen, who was kind enough to send in 11 Arcanum-inspired sketches.
News post made Monday, January 29, 2001 by Calis
Arcanum Character Generator
Ratster was gracious enough to let us put his Arcanum Character Generator in our download section. It's based on the info currently available about the game, and allows you to quickly check out some character concepts.
News post made Monday, January 29, 2001 by Calis
New screenshots script
Right-o, master Monkeypunch and myself have been busy today, making a screenshots php script thingy. Y'know, a page with buttons for next and previous screenshot. Anyway, check it out at the screenshots pages, and be sure to tell me if you find a bug or if you think the script sucks or anything.
News post made Saturday, January 27, 2001 by Calis
New developer journal @ PC.IGN
Chad Moore got another of his funny Developer Journals posted at IGN PC. Apparently, Chad is now the lead designer on the game. God help us all. ;)
News post made Saturday, January 27, 2001 by Calis
Leonard Boyarsky interviewed at Sharky Games
Sharky Games interviewed Leonard Boyarsky, the lead artist / Troika co-founder we all know and love.
Thanks to Magao for pointing out this interview on the boards.
News post made Friday, January 26, 2001 by Calis
Dwarven Genesis
Larryn "Skorpios" Cock wrote a little piece on Dwarven mythology, titled Dwarven Genesis. Although it's not directly related to his story, I added it as an appendix to his Bondsman chronicles.
News post made Friday, January 26, 2001 by Calis
Arcanum just went into feature lock
This was posted earlier today by Shellman at the the Arcanum inn
“That Arcanum made it to "feature and content complete" this weekend! Woohoo!!!
The home stretch has arrived! We're just bug fixing and balancing now! Expect to see this baby on store shelves in the next 2 to 4 months. Yay!”
monkey gives away a little cry of joy thats indeed great news! the Source of the information can be found here.
News post made Monday, January 22, 2001 by Monkeypunch
Tim Cain interview at Gamekult
Gamekult has an interview up with Tim Cain, the Troika CEO and Programmer/Designer Person we all know and love. You can read it in English or in French. The interview touches on a variety of subjects, including Fallout, superhero games and, of course, lots and lots of Arcanum! A must-read.
News post made Sunday, January 21, 2001 by Calis
New Entry In The Gamesmania Arcanum Journal
Gamesmania's excellent Arcanum Journal, kept by Jason MacIsaac, has had the good grace to receive a new entry. If you've yet to read the journal, which details the experience of 3 characters making their way through the beta, we recommend you slither over and do so, for it is good.
News post made Saturday, January 20, 2001 by Xerophyte
And Competition Increases...
The fierce competition for the souls of the world's Arcanum fans has now been stepped up with the launch of spiffy fansite Arcanum X. If you, due to some obscure reason I cannot possibly fathom, feel the need to check out other Arcanum sites than the one run by our spectacular selves, feel free to check them out.
News post made Saturday, January 20, 2001 by Xerophyte
Beta Impressions from Voodoo Extreme
The kind and gentle folk over at Voodoo Extreme have spent some time with the Arcanum beta and written up a very short piece detailing their beta impressions. 5 screenies are available in addition to the text.
News post made Friday, January 12, 2001 by Xerophyte
Gone - back the 22nd
I'll be gone for the next 10 days or so... I'll be back the 22nd. I won't be anywhere near a computer, so for any Terra Arcanum-related matters, you should probably e-mail Xerophyte: xerophyte@terra-arcanum.com
News post made Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Calis
5 new screenshots at Gamespydaily
Gamespydaily, Gamespy's new news/screenshots hub site, has 5 new screenshots of the game we're all waiting for... and damn, do they look sweet.
News post made Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Calis
Official site update - Shadow Crawler
The official site has been updated with the details on another monster: the Shadow Crawler, a nasty Arcanum spider. A new screenshot of the week has also been posted, showing the tech schematic for an Auto Skeleton Key. (which we already had in our tech section.
News post made Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Calis
New poll - old poll results
The results of the old poll were, with a total of 189 votes:
A shocking 40.7% of you think that all clans/guilds are evil lobster cults who eat babies! My, my.
16.4% of you are going to join a clan/guild
12.1% aren't, because they're not going to play multiplayer
11.6% of you don't see the point in joining a clan/guild
8.4% of you didn't know Arcanum supported multiplayer
7.4% of you are already in a clan or guild
3.1% of you didn't understand the question.
The new poll is titled: "Which part of Arcanum are you looking forward to the most". As always, the poll can be found at the very bottom of the page.
News post made Tuesday, January 9, 2001 by Calis
Chat Over - Edited Log Available
After diligently slaving away into the wee hours of the night, we can now present the previous chat log in a nice, edited and more readable state. Those who missed Saturday's developer chat session are recommended to trudge on over here and read this aesthetically pleasing, colour-coded log file.
News post made Saturday, January 6, 2001 by Xerophyte
Chat over - Unedited log available
We got off to a bit of a slow start due to some technical problems (Kaz', a Gamesnet IRC Operator, saved the day), but overall the chat was a success. You can find an unedited log of the event here. We'll have an edited log available soonish.
News post made Saturday, January 6, 2001 by Calis
REMINDER: DEV CHAT TODAY
Just a reminder: at 4 PM Pacific time (PST) / 7 PM Eastern time (EST), I will expect to see each and every one of you in the channel #arcanum on the irc.gamesnet.net IRC server. Why? Because you'll have to opportunity to ask the Troika folks questions!
The event will be hosted by... US! Woohoo!
To participate, you need to use an IRC client such as mIRC. Gamesnet also has a Java-based client available, if the use of a regular client is somehow impractical for you. Check out our IRC info page for more info.
News post made Saturday, January 6, 2001 by Calis
More AI goodness
I'll just copy-paste the post from Tim Cain:
There was a bug in the demo where explosives didn't always anger people to the right person. This has been fixed. Also, when you are able to pick off someone near someone else who does not react, this means those people are on different faction (which is probably a bug in this case).
A lot of this has changed since the demo. I have broadened the definition of who will help other people, plus I made those people who DON'T want to help in combat flee the scene. These fleeing people will cause any guards who see them to go to where they are fleeing from.
This new code caused the following scene:
I entered a bar and attacked a patron. His nearby buddies attacked me as well, but the other patrons and the barkeep ran outside yelling "Aiiiieee!". A guard walking up the street saw them and ran into the bar and popped me good. I died horribly.
This new code also means that if you attack a shopkeeper first, his guards will attack you, but if you attack his guards first, the shopkeeper will run out in the street, attracting even more guards.
We are living in interesting times. :)
News post made Friday, January 5, 2001 by Calis
Tim Cain on followers using their tech disciplines
I'll just copy paste the thing from the Inn:
Ok, I have spent yesterday making the schematic interface work with NPC's. Basically, you can ask a follower to show his schematics, and you can look through them just like you would look through your own schematics. If he has the skill and the items, you press the Combine button and he makes the item, which ends up in his inventory. He will even wield it immediately if he likes it.
Wow. Follower interaction is getting better every minute.
News post made Thursday, January 4, 2001 by Calis
Bondsman Chronicles Chapter 1
Skorpios sent me the next chapter in his Bondsman chronicles... you can find the new chapter here and a list of all the chapters currently available here.
News post made Thursday, January 4, 2001 by Calis
Awards! Awards for Troika!
In the 2000 Vault Network Awards, our Troikan heroes gained a grand total of two well-earned awards in recognition of their service to mankind. And without having released a single game yet, at that! Specifically, Troika Games received the award for Outstanding Achievement In Community Building and Troika Artist/Office Manager Sharon Shellman was handed the prestigious Spokesperson Of The Year award. Although the misinformed fools over at VaultNet gave the award for Fansite of the Year to the much-less-deserving-than-us diabloii.net, we're happy that the community efforts of the Troikaites do not go unnoticed.
News post made Thursday, January 4, 2001 by Xerophyte
Arcanum Developer Journal up at IGN PC
Gaming site IGN PC have posted the first in a series of a "few" Arcanum developer journals. This one has ever-eloquent Troika writer Chad Moore detailing how it's like to record the voices for a game, all told a decidedly unique fashion.
News post made Thursday, January 4, 2001 by Xerophyte
Demo release date...
Here's what Shellman posted about it on the official Sierra board:
We have a tentative March date on the demo. The demo will not be released until the game is close to completion, as it is a demo, the purpose of which is to increase sales, we would like it to be as close to the "final" code as possible. (so that all bugs and such are cleaned up)
News post made Wednesday, January 3, 2001 by Calis
Stuff at the Official Site
The folks at Sierra have aparantly spent days working on this week's update. We are given a new screenshot. Oh, the scope of this new information is certainly staggering. I can but think of a single word that can describe my emotional turmoil. Yay.
News post made Tuesday, January 2, 2001 by Xerophyte
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