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.

IGN reports today that a new Dragon Age official expansion called “Awakening” has been spotted and promptly pulled, but not quickly enough. Gaming news site Eurogamer reportedly saw the ad for a PC expansion on several online retailers, and Kotaku reported similar sitings of an XBox 360 expansion.  The reports are consistent though – the expansion had a release date of March 2010!

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.

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).

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.

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

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.