Thanks to some excellent questions by Flatfingers in our forum, I’m reminded to talk a bit about the economy in AVWW, as well as crafting. Q: What will the process of crafting something feel like? Will it be a simple one-step action, or can it be a sequence of steps that benefit from knowledge and…
It’s been a busy two weeks! This is the game at 14 weeks of development. The new screenshots are on the official AVWW page, and here’s the new video: Here’s a quick rundown of what is new since update #9, followed at the bottom by a few longer explanations of some of the items (overworld…
Question from leekster: I was just curios how much of the game is procedurally generated? Is it in the vein of Dwarf Fortress, where all of it is random? I understand monsters can’t be random due to all the animations and textures. But are spells randomly generated? Thanks for your help. Answer from Chris: Well,…
This one fixes some of the balance issues with the blade spawners in the hands of the AI in particular. It also brute-force fixes older savegames, which should be a welcome relief to those affected. Enjoy! This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 4.000…
It was just three days ago that I wrote the #9 preview for A Valley Without Wind, and mostly that’s still the best source for the goods on what all is new this time around. However, the big thing we were missing last time was a video, because of a few technical difficulties with the…
We’re transitioning the video creation duties from myself to Erik, and in the process of that we’re having a few technical difficulties that are requiring some updates to his machine and so forth. So that’s delayed the video for our progress report #9, but I wanted to go ahead and do a written update (and…
It pains me to say that we’re delaying the first public version, but Keith and I spent a good while talking about it today, and we agree it’s for the best. We’ve decided to scrap the idea of a public alpha, and instead are going to start with a public beta. In practical terms, what…
When it comes to the perma-death mechanic, the one thing I want to make most clear is that this has no bearing on the difficulty of the game, despite what some folks might expect. In most games with perma-death, that means that the game is very hard. How difficult or easy this game is depends…
This video is just a simple lighting test showing off our new way of handling light in AVWW. The older method, using the z buffer, is still available for lower-end graphics cards and computers, but this new model looks way better, and on most computers won’t use that much more CPU/GPU! What We Were Doing:…
This one fixes yet another desync that Fleet and Tssbackus were the sole folks to be able to find. Turns out you had to save your game under just the right circumstances in the middle of a big battle to get this one, which not many people presumably do, hence the rarity. This release also…
