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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura is a 2001 role-playing video game developed by Troika Games and published by Sierra On-Line for Microsoft Windows.The game's story takes place within a fantasy setting currently undergoing a transformation from its own Industrial Revolution, in which magic competes against technological gadgets, and focuses on the efforts of a zeppelin crash survivor ...
Atlantis is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) originally published by Bard Games, [1] set in the ancient world before Atlantis sank. It first consisted of three books: The Arcanum, The Lexicon, and The Bestiary, and for this reason was originally called The Atlantean Trilogy or The Atlantis Trilogy.
Jason D. Anderson, usually credited as Jason Anderson, is a video game developer.He started out as a contract artist for Interplay on the USCF Chess project. He was later hired to work on Fallout for which he became Lead Technical Artist, working on the original game design, interface, and quests.
James Ohlen is a video game designer. He was Senior Creative Director of BioWare where he worked for 22 years prior to starting the publishing company Arcanum Worlds in 2018.
After Arcanum was released in 2001, two teams started to work on two different games. One team created The Temple of Elemental Evil for publisher Atari which was released on September 26, 2003 . It was lauded for the good implementation of the D&D 3.5 system , but overall it got mixed reviews due to gameplay bugs and a lack of a plot.
Using the code as reference, a reverse engineered build of the final version was created by Alexander Makarov for source ports around 2017. [98] A later alpha draft from July 1996 was leaked in January 2023 by "x0r_jmp". [99] Blood & Magic: 1996 2021 DOS Real-time strategy: Tachyon Studios Source code was uploaded to archive.org in 2021. [100]
Chris Avellone (/ˈævəloʊn/) is an American video game designer and comic book writer.He is known for his significant roles on a large number of video games, primarily role-playing video games, praised for their writing across his three-decade career.
The Arcanum is the first book in The Atlantean Trilogy.It includes a role-playing system largely based on the rules for Dungeons & Dragons, [1] but the generic information about the character classes and magic can also be used without the role-playing system, and adapted to another fantasy role-playing system such as D&D or RuneQuest to add an Atlantean flavor to the game.