I’m a bit late on posting this, but I just wanted to say thanks to all of our supporters who made this year our most successful yet as an indie developer. We’re all hugely grateful, and hope that you have a happy, restful holiday season with your family. And that you have plenty of time…
As of December 23rd, 2011, we have so far raised and donated $30,741.89 for Child’s Play! That’s $2,962.77 since our September update, all of which has already gone directly to the charity. That closes out the year with $20,212.18 having been raised and donated in 2011 — smashing our 2010 numbers, and well more than…
This one is a really substantial release, so it took us a couple of days. Enemy Weakspots First of all are the new enemy weakspots, which really add a lot to the game — shooting spells into a skelebot’s head now does 2x damage, while shooting it in the legs slows it down, for example. …
There’s just a few hours left to vote for IndieDB’s Indie of the Year Top 100 competition. A Valley Without Wind has been in the mix and making a push toward the final stage where the ten top vote getters will compete the last week of 2011 for the right to be called IOTY. If…
Our space strategy title AI War is featured today on Steam’s Holiday Sale Gift Pile! For those participating in the mega giveaway contest, make sure to snag the holiday-themed achievement for a gift and/or another token to put into the drawing that will see one entrant walking away with the entire Steam catalog. Which is rather insane. What’s the…
This one is actually a series of two releases. The first was purely a bugfix version to avoid more people having issues with world corruption that could happen in 0.552. The second release has new tweaks and features, mainly centering around mana recharge and how mana can be expended. This will have an effect on…
A quick note that our games Tidalis and AI War are on massive discount as part of Steam’s Holiday Sale that runs now through December 31st. Keep an eye on the Holiday Sale Gift Pile challenges page during the duration of the event as well for a chance to win every single game in Steam’s catalog and other prizes.…
This one includes a number of new things, including various balance and bugfix items that players noted from the prior version. The changes to fire touch and the way that the class-based spell cooldowns work should be particularly welcome. And the reference info and other in-game text is now up to date with all the…
For the last week, we’ve been working on power-coding. That took us through multiplayer sync models and enemy/character stats balance, to a whole new health subsystem, to the addition of continents and a whole new mana subsystem, to a new mission system, and finally ending up with the removal of tiers, the complete revamping of…
This one is the last of our power-coding releases — at least in this stretch. The framework of everything we wanted to accomplish in that stretch of power-coding is now done, and now it comes more to balance, polish, and putting some meat on the new bones. New Crafting Model, No More Tiers It was…
