Anvil of Dawn is one of the last non-3D first person role-playing game that relies on sprite animations. It skillfully uses transition effect to create a smooth grid based movement. One of the strong points about the game is the auto map implementation. You can choose one of the five characters to start with, each carries a different characteristic. The spells are categorized into four categories, which you have to pick the category at the start. Similar to magic, the weapon skills also being categorized into a few areas.
DreamForge Intertainment, (later Dreamforge Games) was founded as Event Horizon Software by James Namestka, Thomas Holmes and Christopher Straka. The company produced several well known award winning games, most of them in the genre of role-playing and strategy games. The company was shut down in 2000 after difficulties with the publisher while developing the never finished game Werewolf: The Apocalypse - The Heart of Gaia, which eventually led to the closure of the company.
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