Normally I don’t cross-post topics from the Arcen Wiki, but this one I wrote tonight, and was so fundamental and helpful in explaining many of the intricacies of AI War in broad terms that I thought it would be a worthwhile one to share directly here on my blog. Q: The game doesn’t seem to…
Bold statement, no? But this is a pretty simple post, actually. It shouldn’t come as surprise to anyone that we live in a complex world, but we tend to rely on mental models that oversimplify things. Even without discussing heuristics and the problems those can create, we can simply think of this in terms of…
Version 0.407 of Tidalis, which has been inwork for a surprisingly long amount of time for one of our beta updates, is now out. If you look at the full features list, you can definitely see why it took more time than usual. The major new feature here is multi-well co-op play on the local…
The fourth week of Direct2Drive’s spring sale continues, and this week there’s an incredible discount on an AI War bundle! The promotion only runs for another 5 days, so be sure to check it out! This bundle is about the lowest price you’re likely to see AI War for some time to come.
If you or someone you know is looking for a great deal on AI War and its expansion… here’s your chance! Today is the start of a Weekend Impulse Buys promotion at Stardock’s Impulse on the AI War / Zenith Remnant Pack. The promotion runs through April 25th.
The early days of the Tidalis beta have been a bit interesting, as one of the first things we discovered was that our updater would actually kill the OSX version of Tidalis during updates. It was a Unix permissions thing that we somehow didn’t encounter in our prerelease testing. This took us days to solve…
Overall, early reactions to Tidalis have been extremely positive, for which our entire team is really gratified. However, there have been a few predictable reactions along the lines of “how do you go from making a hardcore strategy game to an [insert slur on casual or puzzle games, or games with cheerful graphics or music]?”…
As you can read all about on the post below, Tidalis is now in beta and available for preorder. If you’d prefer a video introduction to the mechanics of the game before you download the demo, then this video covers the high points. Enjoy! View On Youtube
What happens when a notable indie strategy developer makes a puzzle game? We have no idea. Our first game happened to be a notable indie strategy game, but we’ve never considered ourselves tied to any particular genre. Truth is, we made Tidalis because we like puzzle games and we wanted to take our opportunity to…
Tidalis is the second standalone game from indie developer Arcen Games, known originally for their hardcore RTS/4X hybrid, AI War: Fleet Command. Not wishing to be typecast, and having game and level design backgrounds in a wide variety of genres, Arcen chose pretty much the exact opposite genre for their second game. The final game…
