Digital Roar Studios

A few of the Digital Roar team members attended the East Coast Gaming Conference this past week. Everyone agrees that it was awesome and we met some amazing people. We’re all greatly looking forward to going again next year! Some of the team actually hosted their own panels and each turned out a great crowd.

Closer we crept build by build, we knew deep in our hearts it would be soon, frighteningly soon. We questioned our motives and decided we were Indie as Hell and would soon prove it. get your Play and App store accounts ready , cause we’re about to break Helll’s gates WIDE open!

As a way to so say thank you to the community of game developers that have helped us get to where we are, we are open sourcing the Maelstrom project. We hope this library of models , sound effects , sky boxes and terrain textures will help other indies advance their own developments. Torrent Found

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In the initial chapter, “Shards of Nereid,” you fight for the Mars faction as you investigate a distress call near one of Neptune’s moons. Taking control of the Martian Light Fighter, you must fend off swarming waves of invading Kj’hal. The Light Fighter is equipped with a standard laser with access to more powerful missiles. It offers two unique control styles, and an achievement system tracks your…

Digital Roar Studios is proud to be an official supporting sponsor of SIEGE 2010. SIEGE is “is the definitive center of gravity for knowledge exchange among video game industry professionals and students in the southeastern U.S. This year, the show will host 600-650 attendees who will enjoy up to 2 keynotes, 60 break-out sessions, and 15 social/networking events,” including parities, game competitions, music, and awards.

We will have a booth set up in the expo area where we will be debuting Ascension: Incursio, a true social, online, 3D experience for Facebook. We have special prizes that we’ll be giving away for whoever can claim the high score of the day, and possibly an uber-prize for the high score of the conference. If you’ve never seen DR at a conference, our booths are high energy and fun…

Work begins today on Ascension War, a full-length stageplay set in the Ascension universe. The play, by Digital Roar’s own Kevin Human, was one of six plays selected to participate in the 2010 WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory.

WordBRIDGE is an interdisciplinary laboratory that “seeks to empower pre-professional playwrights to achieve the next level of craftsmanship through collaboration with seasoned professionals from around the world.” Over the years, WordBRIDGE has helped shape many scripts that have gone on to become successfully produced plays, and we hope that Ascension War will one day be counted among them.

Ascension War is a space opera. It takes us from the cellblocks of an interplanetary prison to…

Digital Roar’s writer and narrative designer, Kevin Human, has been selected to speak at TEDx Creative Coast on June 18 in Savannah GA. He will be speaking on creative intellectual property development and the benefits of using a transmedia approach to engage and empower audiences.

Digital Roar CEO John Lyons was recently interviewed by the Florida Times-Union, a major Jacksonville paper, regarding his experience at the University of North Florida and how it has influenced the development of Digital Roar. Read the full article here.

Digital Roar Studios is proud to announce our partnership with dimeRocker for our upcoming release, “Ascension War: Incursio.” Incursio is a Facebook game that expands on the Ascension universe. Along with “Ascension War: Triumvirate,” Incursio marks our second announced title. Both are currently in development.

Digital Roar’s creative director Zach Inks will be giving a lecture called “Unity Indie Development” at the Triangle Games Conference in Raleigh, NC on April 7-8. CEO John Lyons will also give a talk at the conference called “The Indie Game Studio on a Shoe String Budget.” Other members of the development team will be in attendance as well. Look for us in our black Ascension shirts, and don’t hesitate to come say hey. We’ll be debuting the latest version of the game as well as all new print and story materials!