Getting ready for beta 2. It’ll either be this Thursday or the following Thursday. Last week I was visiting journalists on the west coast showing off Elemental so i didn’t get to work on the AI and some other pieces of the game that I think need to be a bit further along before beta 2 starts.
The modding tools won’t be part of beta 2 (they come with beta 4 which is expected to start sometime in July).
Now, the richness of the included modding tools is not because we’re anti-DLC. There will be plenty of expansion packs for Elemental in the years ahead. But we strongly believe that the community itself may find lots of interesting things to do with the world of Elemental (and beyond) if we provide consumer-level tools to do cool stuff.
If you think that screenshot above is neat, wait till you see the video since all of that is animated too.
