This one is pretty minor, just with a few balance tweaks and a bugfix related to minor factions and zombies going off their leashes too far. Since that one in particular is really important to some folks, we’re going ahead and releasing the patch for this today. Enjoy! This is a standard update that you…
Here’s the latest video: The latest screens are collected on the A Valley Without Wind page. What’s New In This VideoThis is the game after 10 weeks of development — we missed a few weeks in there for videos because we were really tangled up with it! Quite a number of the things in this…
This is going to be a three-post day, to hopefully. make up for having neglected the blog for three weeks. In the last post, I talked about the design process for A Valley Without Wind, at least at a high level — that’s a complex topic, so I might write more on that in the…
Keith LaMothe and I are working together on the design and programming of A Valley Without Wind, him with the greater share of programming, me with the greater share of design, though we both do both. This is a bit of a new process for me, despite the fact that I’ve worked with teams on…
Well! I’ve been so focused on A Valley Without Wind for the last month and a half that I really wanted to make sure AI War was getting the love it needs. Keith has been doing updates for the game the last while, but we haven’t had any really big burn-throughs of the mantis idea…
This one fixes a desync that has been haunting my nightmares for months. It’s been incredibly, incredibly rare, to the point that only a few players have ever even seen it. But those players could reproduce it reliably, while almost nobody else could reproduce it at all. Knock on wood, today that saga ends. One…
This one fixes a bug with savegames in 5.004, and also includes a large selection of balance tweaks requested by players since 5.0. Enjoy! This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 4.000 or later. When you launch the game, you’ll see the notice of…
This one is very exciting for me personally, because it addresses one of the hugest bugbears for me with the post-Unity-porting version of the game, which is RAM use. As long-time players will know, we’ve already gone through a huge number of gyrations to get the per-frame RAM usage down, with great success, but the…
This one has a couple of small fixes and tweaks, but mostly focuses on the top-requested ideas from players. Since it’s been a couple of weeks since the last release, we have a triple-dose of free DLC for you today: the ability to save and load the “controls screen” settings to your disk; a new…
Here’s the latest video: New this week: more buildings, more general objects, and some additional regions, as well as a lot more population scripts for the existing regions. There’s also a new Energy Lance spell, which makes cutting through big lines of objects or enemies easier (but it does lower damage to actual individual enemies). …
