Yep, Kael failed with his own game because he doesn't have a required funding and some managing skills, but his design capabilities are really great.
He offered to help for free some time before and Frogboy didn't want to get him in (for many reasons, I don't know exactly why). The community was talking about it a lot... At least now we have a chance to see some good mechanics implemented, because the original Elemental (if you don't look at bugs which can be fixed eventually) was a good amount of interesting concepts and ideas and a bad game mechanics/gameplay-wise. Now if only they had some guy like Sephi working on AI, and it could become one of the best games ever 
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Stardock is one of the world's leading developers and publishers of PC games and desktop software.
Ugh, I don't agree that it's a leading "PC games developer", knowing the amount of problems they have, but I am glad that the guys have guts to move on and on despite of their fail and to fix it eventually (looking at GalCivII: it was bug-ridden and simply not fun at first, and evolved into a nice game later), so I am almost sure that Elemental has a future.
...wait... what?
As far as I know, you don't need money to make a mod for Civ 4... his game was awesome, beyond awesome... he made a decent storyline, each race is different, and not only that, his mod gave tons of modder's to make modmod for the game, expectantly Valkrionn's Rise of Erebus that gave the game a whole new feel. I don't think he failed at his mod at all... if it was, it would not gain any fame at all.
They failed to make a stand-alone tactical game Fall From Heaven 3 due to a number of reasons, mainly funding.
And it's Rise
From Erebus. Believe me I know it. I started it as a small mod to add flavor, and Valkrionn picked it up and made... A totally new game
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