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The Re-Tool

Mike — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:35:38 +0000

We all know that BioWare has announced a new expansion for Dragon Age: Origins and we already understand that our expansion will be stepping on the toes of the official expansion. After one of the lead devs said:

QUOTE:
“We will not be releasing any content that proceeds the Origins story line. Anything past the “end-game” is not within the cannon; “You ended the Dragon Age and a new age came about”.“

Because of this we are forced to re-tool some of our efforts that have already been made, from the ground up on the story board. Thankfully some of the content we have created can be salvaged and re-used.

We will keep everyone posted as we re-work out some of our story lines and quest-cannon.

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Developer’s Meeting

Mike — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:52:03 +0000

We will be holding another Developer’s meeting in Teamspeak3 on January 8th, 2010 (next Friday). Please ensure if you’re attending to bring a friend to help on the project!

Topic Scope

Wiki Useage & Registration
Project Manager Useage & Registration
Task Assignments
Assigning Additional Team Leaders
How to recover from a 2 week hangover after New Years.

See you there!

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Concept Finishing Up

Mike — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:26:59 +0000

Our concept compliation is nearly finished. We are still designing the landscapes in the toolset and adding characters however the concepts of the areas, monsters, and characters are nearing completion. The canon of the project has already been developed with some loose ends to tie up here and there but we are happy to announce that the project is in FULL DEVELOPMENT stages.

What does this mean? This basically details to everyone that we, still being behind in man-power, are ahead of the curve and release date of late February. Affinity has been the main person getting our content pumping in the toolset itself and has been doing an excellent job. We do have various kinks and “road-blocks” to work through right this minute, but the dev-team and leaders remain optimistic that the project will be release, even if late, beyond the quality of any community game add-in released to date.

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Developer’s Confrence

Mike — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:55:28 +0000

A developers confrence is scheduled for the day after Christmas to discuss some of the more important goals and progress of the progress and the direction of community support and communications. We invite anyone whom wants to attend to the confrence; however non-developers will be given observer (listen in) status only. After the main confrence is over, we will hold a questions and answer’s session so any guest will be able to ask our developers whatever questions they would like (limit 20 guest questions — we will pick at random).

DETAILS:
When: December 26, 2009 at 8pm EST
Where: Skype (Invite Only)

If you are a guest and would like to attend this confrence, please leave a reply in our forums to this article with your Skype ID.

Download Skype:

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Teaser Video

Mike — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:59:52 +0000

We have finished our Teaser and Preview Video of the upcoming expansion, Dragon Age: The Rift. This expansion takes place after the main quest line and outside of the Dragon Age Canon to be precise but is done so within story line confines with the exception of some very minor changes to details in which allow cosmetic improvements to the game itself and this expansion.

High Quality:

Low Quality:

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Merry Christmas!

Mike — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:05:36 +0000

We hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season! From all of us at the Rift Project!

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Website Issues

Mike — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:47:05 +0000

Today we had a big run-in with our data-center. First of all; over the past 3 weeks that this site has been up (and not counting the 3 years my other sites have been), our data center’s quailty of hosting has been rather bad. However last night, we had an issue where they claimed that their Air Conditioning unit had failed, which would make the 9th time this year it has. What they do not know is I am a network technician; I know whether the server is still there or not. By running multiple pings I could tell they were having severe network problems — not a problem that would be caused by such an event as an air conditioner failing. A/C Units are vital in a server farm such as this place had, but these units do not fail 9 times per year.

After all was said and done with, I told them I would be canceling my service which was paid through July 18, 2010. Upon confirming that I was wanting to cancel the service, they in turn and very “smart-assed” said, “Well there is an early termination fee of ten-thousand dollars ($10,000.00) plus any damages incurred to the early termination of your service.” I asked for the data, then, on the server and was replied to with, “You currently owe us ten-thousand dollars for termination of your yearly contract with us (which is already paid for) and until that is paid, we will not unlock your server. If you should not pay this fine, we will destroy your data by the first of the year.”

Clearly, our data is now being held hostage with a ransom of $10,000.00 and a deadline of January 1, 2010. I have switched data-centers now and have the new site up and running, however I think that our data is lost is going to hurt pretty badly. I have done what I can to retrieve what files were indexed by Google and other web-services out there, but I don’t think it will help much.

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