Not a full developer diary today — but I did want to share a couple of things since it’s been a while. We’ve got a few full diaries with videos and lots of details coming up before too long, but in the meantime there are a few things that I can show well with screenshots.…
This release fixes a single logic issue which some players had been running into thanks to the Steam Summer Camp achievement for Tidalis. Essentially, if you won a game board with a combo, then it would not score that combo or give you achievements, because by definition it was waiting around half a second to…
I’ve written before, in depth, on my process for iterative game design and why I use it. That blog post was a year and a half ago, however, when it was just Pablo, Phil, and myself and we hadn’t even started working on the first expansion to AI War yet. I was the only game…
This one has kind of a hodgepodge of fixes and tweaks that players have requested. Several of them deal with warheads, and there’s also an added interface for finding science labs in the galaxy map, so hence the nametag of the release. This also fixes a scoreboard issue with defender mode games always showing up…
This is the detailed diary that was promised in our big side view reveal post. It’s assumed that you’ve already read the post on the other end of that link; if not, a lot of this post isn’t going to make much sense, so make sure you do! Obviously the biggest news this week is…
There comes a point in every good game’s life where it stops feeling like a prototype, and starts feeling downright fun. For AVWW, that time is now, and it came about because of a fundamental shift we made to the game: rather than being a top-down 2D game in a faux perspective that is common…
Please understand that my intent is not to tease, here — a lot of game companies give the barest hints of information, and try to drive you nuts with speculation and extrapolation. Folks familiar with Arcen know that’s not our style. That said, what I do want to tell you is that there are several…
It’s been a while since our last update — we’ve been really busy, as you might expect. The game has now been in development for 17 weeks, but this week we don’t have a new fully-produced video mainly because we’re running short on time. However, a number of the new animation updates that are in…
I’ll have a full developer diary #11 (no video this week, though) posted in the next day or so. However, first I want to talk about interior floorplan generation. This is something that I’m going to release as an open source example program in a month or two, once it’s fully polished. This past week…
Has It Really Been Two Years!? It seems like just yesterday that AI War 1.0 made it’s public debut, but it’s actually been two years. And what a busy two years! In that time we’ve released three new expansions, changed the game to the Unity 3D engine, added Mac OSX support, created our puzzle game…
