November Monthly Wrap Up

       First off let me apologies for leaving everyone in the dark so long, I go to school full time and hold down a steady job and was dealing with the end of the quarter crunch time.  However, now that school is out for winter break their should once again be a steady stream of info trickling out of the development team.  In fact we have decided to implement a few new community enhancements to improve the flow of information between us the developers, and you the community.  

Formation of the Concepts Department  

        Since the last update we have decided to implement a new department here at RenWerX Studios to make sure that the best of the best ideas get toughly discussed and then implemented into the game.  The Concept Department will be in charge of combining all the best Ideas of the community as well as things talked about behind the scenes into one cohesive development document.  Before we implemented this department we would sporadically update our many documents scattered all over the place such as design.renwerx.com both our public and private forums and the ascension-game.com guide. This however was problematic as having things in more than one place and making it so anyone could update them however they saw fit lead to a lot of confusion and even some feature creep. 

        The Concept Department remedies this by acting as idea janitors and gatekeepers.  They themselves will not add there own Ideas unless agreed upon by others but instead give final approval of Community and Developer Ideas and work out the final mechanics of those Ideas.  They will then add them to the design document in an easy to understand and universal mannor.  Heading up the concept department will be our very own PyroGunx, and his team will include N()VA, and Teratos.  We are very fortunate to have their help and welcome them with arms wide open.

Developer Blogs on the Way

             In other news, Novanix is putting the finishing touches on the new Dev Blog System for RenWerX Studios.  The Dev blogs will take the place of weekly updates and will allow a lot more interaction between the development team and the community.  All RenWerX Staff will have the opportunity to make a development blog and update it whenever they want.  They can post updates, ideas, pictures and other game related things when they feel inclined. 

RenWerX Wiki Launched

               Earlier this month we launched the Ascension Wiki.  The Ascension Wiki will remain private until the games release at which time it will be open for the public to view and use.  It will contain all the whitepapers, tutorials and how to's, documentation, links to tools, and more content on the inter workings of the game then you can shake a disk launcher at.  Our goal is to use it as a modification and how-to Bible of the game populated with the answers to any and all questions on the inner workings of the game.

Storyline Update

             A long overdue storyline update is sitting in our new timeline and  storyline section of the [url]http://www.ascension-game.com[/url] site.  This month we feature the introduction of two more of the five factions involved in the game the Banished and the Apostate factions. 

Apostate: http://www.ascension-game.com/index.php/mod/static/page/apostatefaction.html

The Banished: http://www.ascension-game.com/index.php/mod/static/page/banishedfaction.html

New Media

We added a bit of new media this month in the form of some shots from another WIP map namded Iceflow and a nice new shot of the Anar Tempera Spawn Room. 

IceFlow FloodGates: http://www.ascension-game.com/index.php/mod/gallery/file/display/image/167?asc=0&sort=i.added

IceFlow Bridge: http://www.ascension-game.com/index.php/mod/gallery/file/display/image/168?asc=0&sort=i.added

Anar Tempera Spawn Room: http://www.ascension-game.com/index.php/mod/gallery/file/display/image/169?asc=&sort=i.added

Feel Free to direct questions and comments to this thread: http://www.renwerx.com/forums/showthread.php?p=33964#post33964