This one has been a couple of days in the making, and the release notes are still pretty short even so, but it’s been a busy few days for sure!  Keith has been hard at work on the multiplayer stuff, and that’s coming along well although it’s still an uphill thing. For my part I’ve […]

This one is our third and final release of the day.  The thing I’m most excited about it is the work that’s been done on the intro mission framework.  The mission-as-implemented-so-far is just a tiny cave that you walk out of (yay), but what that tiny cave represents is pretty substantial for my ability to […]

This one is our second of what looks to be three releases for today.  There were a couple of bugfixes in it that we wanted to get out to players ASAP, so here we are. Also included in this release, aside from the bugfixes, are a whopping 24 new stairwell-type room templates and 2 new […]

This one simply has some bugfixes that we wanted to go ahead and get released before tonight’s later release. More to come soon.  Enjoy! This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 0.500 or later. When you launch the game, you’ll see the notice of […]

This one doesn’t have hugely long feature list, but it includes several things that have been on my to-do list for what seems like forever. First up is the new Glyph Transplant spell scroll, which basically lets you do a body swap with any NPC you like.  You become them, and they become you, and […]

This one is back to having a more regular sort of file size, but it’s a real biggie in terms of the new things added in it.  First of all, if you’re someone who is getting into the map editor, there’s a number of key additions in the map editor that make designing things like […]

In terms of file size, this one is by far the largest update we’ve done to any of our games, ever.  In terms of release notes length, not so much.  Why the huge file size?  Well, there’s some new art, but that’s really only a few megs. Further-Processed Character (And Some Monster) Graphics The thing […]

This one is really a pretty small release in terms of what is publicly ready in it, but there were enough player-requested tweaks in there that I felt like it was worth getting out tonight rather than waiting for a larger batch of stuff tomorrow.  The minimap has a few more options and works a […]

This one is a quite a lengthy set of release notes, because I decided to make today a “mantis day” and just plow through a ton of the higher-priority bug reports, feature suggestions, and so on.  I also added a couple of random smaller spells and scrolls that I’ve been meaning to add for a […]

This one is a longer set of release notes again, but it’s been a couple of days since the last beta update.  What gives?  Well, at the moment we’re simply sinking a lot of time into some larger features rather than focusing on vast amounts of smaller stuff. Multiplayer Status Multiplayer is one gargantuan feature, […]

This one is again a shorter release notes, and again there’s some… extra something in this release not noted.  But this time, pretty well everyone should find that extra stuff because it’s so darn pervasive in most any building now. The two big things in this release, aside from the various tweaks and the “extra […]

This one is a much shorter-than-average set of release notes, so for the most part I’m just going to point you to them.  But it’s been a busy day indeed!  Yesterday and today a lot of my and Josh’s time has been spent on… something.  Sometimes it’s just more fun if you find it for […]

This one is really all over the place in terms of what it adds — a lot of things people have wanted for a while, plus yet more internal progress on the multiplayer front. The first really huge change is to how the balance is handled for your equipment as your civ level increases.  The […]

This one is our first release in a couple of days, which is certainly atypical for us!  There’s a couple of things that have been going on.  Firstly, I was out yesterday for some personal reasons; nothing bad, so don’t worry, but it was something that I needed to do and which took more time […]

This one is surprisingly large for being our second release of the day.  First up is a new spellgem, called “Storm Dash.”  You can use this to increase your movement speed by 500% briefly, but you’ll also take twice as much damage while you do so.  This is particularly great for the overland segments if […]

This one is packed to the gills with good stuff.  First off, the boring: boss stats have really been rejiggered again so that the difficulty isn’t overblown like it has been the last couple of releases.  That’s super important, but not that exciting.  There’s also some changes to the amount of health you get depending […]

This one is packed with more cool stuff.  Probably the biggest new thing is the new “pylons” on the world map.  These are basically magical barriers that prevent you from crossing certain region tiles.  These barriers have a fairly temporary graphic for now, but it’s clear where the barriers are, anyhow.  To bring down a […]

This one is another really big release in terms of balance.  And also: first new enemies since beta!  The new Eagle, and the upgraded Eagle Diver, are two variants off the same enemy which you can now encounter in the forests.  There’s even a new bird’s nest monster spawner for them. The next big balance […]

This one is a smaller bugfix/balance release, but it’s got a lot of really important stuff in there.  For one thing, there was a gaffe in the prior version that had monster health scaling the opposite of what it should have been.  For another, the MP costs of spells were still scaling in the old […]

This one is yet another really huge release, and yet again it was sparked by player commentary.  The work on new spells and enemies and such got pushed back a day, but this release basically marks a complete rebalancing of all the enemies and spells and player stats, and most importantly how they progress over […]

This one is a really big release, in a lot of respects.  It changes a huge amount of stuff about the visuals of the various particle effects, without actually doing any new graphics.  But to the average player it’s really going to look like a bunch of new graphics, especially with something like the fireball, […]

We’re not even a week into beta for A Valley Without Wind, and already a whopping 12 patches have been released for the game thanks in great part to all the community feedback. It’s been an amazing start! Beta Updates 5.001-5.012 Released (What A Week!) We’ve compiled some interesting stats and notes across those dozen […]

This one is a relatively small release, but it contains a number of important fixes and tweaks.  Several of them are aimed at making the settlement management interface clearer, and one of them prevents the farming of trash mobs that fall into water and die. We’re back to our regularly scheduled weekday programming tomorrow.  In […]