This one has got to be about the least fun sort of release to be working on, for everyone involved (players and developers). There was still a memory leak in the prior version, and it was harming performance as well because of all the garbage collections it was causing. So all day today for Keith,…
This one is our third release of the day, which is never a good sign. Two releases can be good or bad: yay we had a batch of content and stuff leftover from prior days that we released mid-day, and then yay we did even more and released that at the end of the day;…
This one is the second release of today. There was a memory leak in chunk-gen in the prior version, and we wanted to get a fix out for that as soon as we could. Apologies that it took us a couple of hours to do so, actually — we had the fix done about an…
This one took us substantially longer than we thought it would, but that’s mainly because I wound up going down a rabbit hole of performance improvements. Which is great news! There’s a whole host of mainly-CPU-related performance improvements all through here, with everything from chunk-gen (particularly key in multiplayer) to actually when you’re running…
This one is the first of what we expect to be two releases for today. The main reason we’re pushing this one early is that it has such major CPU usage enhancements in it that we really wanted to get that into the hands of folks as soon as possible. But it also has a…
This one has yet another batch of bugfixes, but also four new/revised features: 1. Actual glass in windows, with periodic cracks and everything. 2. Healing Touch now not only works in multiplayer, it’s a lot more useful in how it works in multiplayer and solo. 3. Skelebot Guards are now Skelebot Grunts, and way less…
Steam has our ‘easy to learn, hard to master’ puzzler Tidalis at 50% off today only as part of their Daily Deal promotion. With the game’s recent price drop that brings the PC/Mac title down to just $2.50. If you know much about our games, you know that’s quite a bit of content for around the…
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…
