This one is very exciting for me personally, because it addresses one of the hugest bugbears for me with the post-Unity-porting version of the game, which is RAM use. As long-time players will know, we’ve already gone through a huge number of gyrations to get the per-frame RAM usage down, with great success, but the…
This one has a couple of small fixes and tweaks, but mostly focuses on the top-requested ideas from players. Since it’s been a couple of weeks since the last release, we have a triple-dose of free DLC for you today: the ability to save and load the “controls screen” settings to your disk; a new…
The soundtrack for “A Valley Without Wind” is getting off to a great start. For those of you who have heard some of the music in the trailers, you’ll notice the key component in all the pieces: the 8-bit melody. It’s a sound that is not only fun to play with, but nostalgic for any…
Arcen Games is pleased to share the latest info and footage for its procedurally-generated action-adventure title A Valley Without Wind. This week we reach a multiplayer benchmark, introduce the Energy Lance spell, implement the minimap feature into the HUD, add new regions, buildings, objects and more. Early multiplayer testing has gone well. In our first…
Here’s the latest video: New this week: more buildings, more general objects, and some additional regions, as well as a lot more population scripts for the existing regions. There’s also a new Energy Lance spell, which makes cutting through big lines of objects or enemies easier (but it does lower damage to actual individual enemies). …
Chris sat down with Nick Puleo of Co-Optimus for a more in-depth look at the recently revealed multiplayer and co-op features for A Valley Without Wind. In it, they discuss MMORPG aspects, retention of the isolation theme, solutions on playing together with varying levels, avoiding the grind, the first season of LOST, and much more.…
Arcen Games continues its weekly report on its procedurally-generated action-adventure title A Valley Without Wind with information on the game’s multiplayer, server support, world map, regions, windstorms and more. Multiplayer is coming to AVWW through the support of servers. The plan is for mainly co-op play, but there’s room for pvp content if the server…
Peter Parrish has written a great review of AI War and the Light of the Spire expansion over on IncGamers. In it he awards the game a 9 out of 10 on their review scale and sums it up as “an exceptional, unique strategy title with near-endless customization and unparalleled post-release support.” A particular excerpt…
This week there is less to visually show you for A Valley Without Wind, but it’s been a hugely productive week nonetheless. An updated screenshot gallery is now on the main AVWW page. And here’s the latest video: Multiplayer Perhaps the most exciting thing in progress at the moment is multiplayer. It’s been almost two…
This one continues our bugfix/polish work, and also includes some small additional features that were the top requests on our idea tracker. Namely: triple-clicking units allows for a new kind of selection ability; there are now keybinds for showing strong/weak info; and the selection description window in the bottom right has seen some added functionality.…
