This one is the first substantial content addition since the initial beta release of our new AI War expansion pack, Ancient Shadows. This update adds a second scenario that can be seeded in a nebula, beginning the move towards much-needed variety for the champions’ “offroad” exploits. This scenario introduces three new splinter factions (one zenith,…
In case you missed it from our main news blog, the beta and preorders for AI War: Ancient Shadows began yesterday! One particular complaint that caught me by surprise was about the logo for the expansion, which was using a font that apparently is widely-reviled. Algerian wasn’t a font I was terribly familiar with (not…
Version 5.052 begins the public beta for Ancient Shadows, our newest expansion to AI War. We waited longer than usual to start the preorders and public beta for Ancient Shadows because we wanted to get the anchor feature to a playable state, and it’s pretty complex under-the-hood. So, what’s the anchor feature? Champions! A bit…
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the forums and/or the Games By Design blog, you’ll know we’ve been planning quite a bit for the second half of the year. A new AI War expansion, completely redone art for A Valley Without Wind, and the reveal of our latest title Shattered Haven. AI War: Ancient…
This one is continuing our trend of adding a new spell and other new tweaks each week while the game is undergoing its art revamp for the next few months. Since I was out on vacation last week, I obviously didn’t add any new spell last week. So this week there are two! Campfire is…
I’ve mentioned a couple of places now that I’m working on “another project.” Shattered Haven is that project. This project is already extremely far along, because savvy Arcen lore-fiends will recognize that this is a revival of my old Alden Ridge project under a new name and with a ton of revisions (including 100% new…
So! You may or may not know, but we’ve been working on getting a variety of mockups for A Valley Without Wind in order to significantly improve the quality of the art. The art quality of the game has been really divisive among players since before beta for the game even started, but we never…
We had hoped to be at a point where we could reveal a lot more information about Ancient Shadows this week, but as it turns out most of that is going to need to wait until next week. Still, we don’t want to leave you empty-handed — so here’s a screenshot of what Keith is…
This one starts our response to the winner of our first “Aim the nerfbat (AI-side)” poll. The landslide winner was the AI Eye. Curiously, the main call was not so much for the eye to be made less strong but to be made less monotonous and frustrating. As one player put it: fighting the first…
This one responds to most of the remaining feedback from the last round of polls. Specifically: The Zenith/Spire starships got their long awaited promotion into two new separate lines of starship. The Player Home Forcefield Generator got grav and tachyon coverage (and two semi-related issues with home defense were addressed). The Spire Stealth Battleship was…
