The goal of uninterrupted immersion led them to simplify the game's interface, to reduce the number of heads-up display icons and to include automatically updated quest logs, spellbooks and maps. Their objective was to make the game feel seamless, whether the player was stepping through an area or moving between dungeons.

For the outdoor scenes, the team lined 3D models of each environment with 'movement nodes', and pre-recorded 'mini-cinematics' to animate transitions from one node to another. While real-time 3D graphics were used by certain other dungeon crawl games at the time, DreamForge believed that their environments looked 'flat and pixellated', and sought greater realism through pre-rendering.

In the concept stage, the team chose to focus the game on atmosphere and player immersion, which led to the decision to pre-render the game's environments via three-dimensional (3D) graphical models. The player's character is then teleported in the already occupied and devastated land, where he strives to fulfill his quest to defeat the warlord and his minions.Īnvil of Dawn was developed by DreamForge Intertainment. The civilization had been overrun by an evil warlord and the last castle of the good is under siege. It also features several different endings. There are no experience points as the character gets better through using his abilities and spells. The game is mostly action oriented but also contains some puzzles. The other characters can then be met in the game also trying to fulfill the quest. The player controls only one character throughout the game, which is chosen at the beginning from 5 different heroes. It was released on CD and features fully spoken dialogue and several pre-rendered cutscenes. The game presents a real-time, three-dimensional view from the character's perspective. The game was released 1995 for MS-DOS and was one of the last dungeon crawl RPGs with blockstep movements and semi-3D environment. Anvil of Dawn was named the best role-playing game of 1995 by Computer Gaming World and Computer Game Review.

Anvil of Dawn is a 1995 fantasy role-playing video game developed by DreamForge Intertainment and published by New World Computing.

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