Dawn of Fantasy

Dawn of Fantasy
Developer(s)	Reverie World Studios
Publisher(s)	505 Games[1]
Designer(s)	Christopher Theriault[2] Konstantin Fomenko (Producer)[2] John Lockwood (Technical Director)[2]
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)	September 6, 2011 [3]
Genre(s)	MMORTS
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer
Media/distribution	DVD

Dawn of Fantasy is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy (MMORTS) game set in a medieval high fantasy setting. The game was developed by Reverie World Studios for Microsoft Windows, an Xbox 360 version was initially planned but cancelled.^[4]

Design

Dawn of Fantasy has three playable races: Men, Elves, and Orcs .The economy of Dawn of Fantasy revolves around four primary resources: food, wood, stone, and gold.^{[citation needed]} Dragons and Dwarves were originally planned as playable races, but were cut due to a lack of resources.^[5] According to the developer, they are likely to be featured as playable races in a future expansion or sequel.

Single player

Multiplayer

Dawn of Fantasy will use the "Reverie Online" multiplayer server, which includes a skill-matching system to pit players against opponents with similar skill levels based on previous matches.^{[citation needed]} Players can play in three online modes: multiplayer skirmishes with up to eight players in a battle, the MMORTS in which players can work together to compete quests, battle the NPC strongholds, or engage in PvP warfare, and custom scenarios, in which players can run player-made scenarios created in Dawn of Fantasy's powerful Scenario Design Editor.^{[citation needed]} To keep game requirements low, players can only directly interact with nearby players and individual homelands, quest locations, and NPC strongholds are all instanced.^{[6][not in citation given]}

Game Editor

Dawn of Fantasy includes a scenario editor, which utilises the Lua script language.^[7]

In addition to the scenario editor the game includes a number of other tools including: a model animation viewer^[8]

Development

Development of Dawn of Fantasy began in 2001 by a team formed out of members of a Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings scenario editing community ^[9]. Originally intended as a medieval strategy game, the project was reinvented as a fantasy game in late 2002. As an independent studio for the vast majority of DoF's development, Reverie World Studios (originally, Reverie Entertainment) obtained funding from the Canadian Government's Telefilm Grant.^{[citation needed]} Dawn of Fantasy was signed by Lighthouse Interactive,^[10] which filed bankruptcy shortly after the deal was made.^{[citation needed]}

The original audio score was composed Joel Steudler.

The 3D World Map for the MMORTS Campaign   Orcs in 'Lay Siege' game skirmish mode   Scenario design editor

References

1. ^ "505 Games Announces Dawn of Fantasy". pc.ign.com. IGN. 19 January 2011. http://pc.ign.com/articles/114/1144857p1.html. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "DAWN OF FANTASY - Telefilm Canada", www.telefilm.gc.ca (Telefilm Canada), http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/en/catalogues/production/dawn-fantasy, retrieved 3 October 2011 
3. ^ Reverie World Studios. "Release Date - September 6th-10th". http://www.reverieworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3416. 
4. ^ "Dawn of Fantasy - Xbox 360 - IGN", xbox360.ign.com (IGN), http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/886/886113.html 
5. ^ Dawn of Fantasy Heaven. "Dawn of Fantasy's "Forgotten" Races". http://dof.heavengames.com/info/factions/forgotten. 
6. ^ Massively.com. "Dawn of Fantasy Interview". http://www.massively.com/2009/11/30/dawn-of-fantasy-interview-and-exclusive-screenshots/. 
7. ^ Reverie World Studios. "Fantasy Friday XV: The Scenario Design Editor". http://www.reverieworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1306. 
8. ^ Dawn of Fantasy Heaven. "Scenario Design & Modding Interview". http://dof.heavengames.com/features/interviews/scenario-design-and-modding/. 
9. ^ "Original Age of Kings forum thread 'creating your own game...'". http://aok.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=st&fn=4&tn=26786&f=,,,&st=0. 
10. ^ Gamers Hell. "Lighthouse Interactive Signs Dawn of Fantasy". http://www.gamershell.com/news_56708.html. 

External links

• Dawn of Fantasy official site
• Reverie World Studios official site