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As a supplement [to another role-playing game such as Dungeons & Dragons] Arcanum is unsurpassed, easily one of the best treatments of magic ever published." Swan concluded by giving the game a rating of 3 out of 4, saying, "For those interested in expanding the magic systems of other fantasy RPGs, Arcanum serves as an excellent source of ideas ...
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 ...
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.
Game engine recreation is a type of video game engine remastering process wherein a new game engine is written from scratch as a clone of the original with the full ability to read the original game's data files.
Arcanum's many bugs and the unofficial fix was big news for Arcanum's fanbase so it would be remiss to not mention it if we're going to be writing about a game as obscure as Arcanum anyway. Besides there is plenty of precedent for mentioning unofficial mods that have made a big impact on the game's community such as Freespace and Bloodlines.
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.
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.
Dynamite Dan II: Dr Blitzen and the Islands of Arcanum is a platform game and the sequel to 1985's Dynamite Dan. It was written for the ZX Spectrum by Rod Bowkett and published by Mirrorsoft. [1] An Amstrad CPC port was released the same year.