Chris and I had a solid chat last week with Eddie Milanes on the First Drop Show podcast. We cover a variety of topics regarding the design, development, and upcoming official release of A Valley Without Wind, including scrapped concepts, future possibilities for the game, why we try to only develop features in that we’d want to play, etc. If you’re looking…
This one is our second release of the day, and it’s just a bugfix release that is focused on fixing mainly things that we broke in the prior version. With that many changes to get multiplayer working better (which we’re told that it is, happily), there were bound to be some other things broken. The…
This one has been a few days in the works, but has two major components to it. Mysteries! First of all, there are finally mysteries in the game, as well as puzzle rooms to solve to unlock clues from each mystery. Right now there are two mysteries with a combined 28 clues between them, but…
It was just two days ago that we gave you some general updates about A Valley Without Wind‘s launch coming the “week of April 16th,” but there were a lot of specifics we couldn’t give you at the time. Welp… now have the rest of the details for you! Release Date — And Steam! The…
This one is just rebalancing, but some of it’s pretty significant. The main thrust is to bring some of the consistently-least-loved units back into the “interesting choice” range. It also has a few bugfixes and some changes to both harvesters and harvester exo-shields, hence the macabre-sounding nickname for the release. Enjoy! This is a standard…
This one has the usual bug and balance fixes, as well as three new monster types: two regular monsters, and one miniboss. All three of these new monsters are primarily for the ocean shallows, replacing the underwater-only types of monsters that were previously used there (and which are now deeper-ocean-only). Although the oceans are also…
I know, I know, we’ve been saying it was going to be next week. And we could hit that target, if we wanted to launch just on our own site and not give reviewers any advance time with the very-near-final game before it releases. But the game is now definitely coming to a large digital…
This one is our second release of the day, and its main feature is a new “Defend Supply Depot From Meteor Storm” mission type, which is a pretty cool new mission vaguely reminiscent of missile command (but with tons of twists making this a lot more interesting). This also fixes a few bugs, one of…
This one is just a small bugfix version, although it also does improve the look of desert sand edges so that deserts feel more desert-y. We’re in progress on a number of things internally that weren’t quite ready for this one, but which will be released later today, though. More to come soon — 1.0…
Earlier this month I attended GDC in San Francisco, it was my first time doing so and it ended up being quite an experience. I was pulling double duty, covering the event itself and its happenings as a journalist for DIYGamer and MCV during the day, and talking Arcen and indie game development in general…
