Digital Roar Studios

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…

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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!

On Thursday, Feb 18, Digital Roar’s Creative Director Zach Inks and Narrative Designer Kevin Human gave a presentation to a group of Liberty High School students from Liberty, SC. The goal of the presentation was to educate…

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Also, you can visit our Ascension War Facebook page here. Please join and share this link with anyone who is a fan of gaming, science fiction…

Members of the Digital Roar team attended the Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo (SIEGE) October 2-4, 2009 in Atlanta, GA where we debuted the next generation of the Ascension media kit, with all new artwork and story elements. Creative Director Zach Inks and Lead Programmer Stephen Cooney also spoke on a panel about indie development.

Digital Roar’s Creative Director, Zach Inks spoke on Feb. 5th at the Carolina Games Summit at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, NC. The presentation, titled Indie Studios on Tight Budgets, covered the ins and outs of the Ascension development process. During the presentation, Zack debuted a video of an Ascension War flythrough. In the video the Mars Light Fighter darted through an asteroid field with Mars in the background before ducking into the close-quarters…