This week there is less to visually show you for A Valley Without Wind, but it’s been a hugely productive week nonetheless. An updated screenshot gallery is now on the main AVWW page. And here’s the latest video: Multiplayer Perhaps the most exciting thing in progress at the moment is multiplayer. It’s been almost two…
This one continues our bugfix/polish work, and also includes some small additional features that were the top requests on our idea tracker. Namely: triple-clicking units allows for a new kind of selection ability; there are now keybinds for showing strong/weak info; and the selection description window in the bottom right has seen some added functionality.…
It’s been a productive week! The difference in the feel of the game between last week and this week is pretty astronomically huge, which is awesome because I spent at least half my time on non-AVWW business stuff this week. That means future weeks will go even faster — but I digress. Here’s the new…
This one packs a fair number of tweaks. It lets you bind mouse buttons beyond the first two, which is a handy new feature for players with a lot of mouse buttons. The core triangle ships have seen some balance tuning after much discussion with players, as have reclamators and guardians. It’s nothing that fundamentally…
It’s a balancing act, with your own strength on one side, and the AI’s opinion of you on the other. Piss it off before you’re ready to face it, and you’re going to get squashed. That moment, when you’re finally in a position to turn the tables, is about as glorious as gaming gets. –…
So! It’s been less than a week, and a lot has changed. I’ll start by showing the latest footage of the game: The reaction to last week’s video and screens was mostly positive, particularly when folks saw shots reflecting the actual in-game resolution, but there were common concerns about the buildings, the character’s running animation,…
Figured out a lot of stuff today for improving the art, and actually improved the framerate massively while I was at it. See above, and click for the fullsized screenshot (from the Unity Editor) if you like. Instead of rendering quite so many short, tame grasses, I’ve taken the original renderings that I did and…
This was originally posted in a comment thread over at Gamers With Jobs, but I’ve been meaning to talk about the art pipeline for A Valley Without Wind for a while over here, too. So here we go! For those curious on how I’m doing the art, it’s a pretty huge pipeline: – Characters and…
[Cary, NC] — February 4, 2011 — Arcen Games, developer of the cult classic and ever-evolving space strategy game AI War: Fleet Command, is excited to announce its third full title A Valley Without Wind, a procedurally-generated action-adventure game coming this year to PC and Mac. AVWW is a complete departure from what Arcen has previously…
As of February 3rd, 2011, we have so far raised and donated $14,798.42! We missed our 2010 goal by about $4,000, but less than a month later we made it! Most of the money earned by our games is actually paid on “net 30” or “net 60” terms to us, meaning that the money that…
