Drakensang: The River of Time - Development Video

[Dhruin]

German mag GameStar visits Radon Labs for this video on the development of Drakensang: The River of Time. Creative Director Bernd Beyreuther describes the project with concept art used to illustrate the conversation. From around the halfway mark, Bernd walks us around the studio on a short tour.
The video is in German but the concept art and work-in-progress glimpses make it worth a look for those fans that lack the requisite language skills.
Thanks, Alrik!
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[elikal]

Cool. Since I loved Drakensang, I cant wait to see more of it.

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

A few notes (now that I watched it fully) :

- The story takes place 23 years before Drakensang

- Kaiser (english Emperor, although the German equivalent "Imperator" has a slightly different meaning than "Kaiser", although they in prinziple mean the same) Hal is still alive. It is the "good old time" for older TDE players.

New creatures I recognized:

- a Zant, a demon which looks like an upright walking sabre-tooth tiger
- gargyles
- a Maru; the Marus are kind of upright walking crocodile-looking saurians, remnants of an older age full of them (with different saurian races, too). They are very aggressive, normally, but are rare in Aventuria. Like all saurians.
- a were-wolf.

These are all new.

In a very short scene you can see the oldest TDE boxes containing the rule books and character sheets etc. .

 

[Avantenor]

We also knew from concepts, that there are giant stag beetles and the first screenshot from the official announcement showed some kind of golem.

The green-shimmering... uhm... busty woman is a so called "Necker", a water-related race. I think they are related to the story in some way. While Drakensang was more about dwarves, the sequel is about elves.

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

You can encounter Necker in the Shadows over Riva game.

Unfortunately I've never played it far enough to encounter them. A thing I must definitively do one time.

 

[Arhu]

Unfortunately I've never played it far enough to encounter them. A thing I must definitively do one time.

Most definitely. The best party of the game.

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Sorry, but Startrail is still my favourite game of all three.