This one has a litany of small fixes and tweaks, and a couple of cool new features. First off, when you’re walking you no longer fall into pits or water. Handy when you’re navigating tight ledges while not being pursued by angry grays Secondly, when you scroll through items in your inventory, it now shows…
This one is our first post-release update. It includes the ability for you to use both the analog stick and the d-pad on your game controllers interchangeably, and it allows you to create new levels directly in the level editor rather than making you initialize them in the file system first. Also it has a…
Recently we put up a couple of gameplay videos, and hopefully that helps answer a lot of the questions right there. But if you’re not into videos, or still have questions, read on. Story-Driven StructureWhen you first start a new game, it takes you through a brief tutorial level that also contains a goodly bit…
This one is uncharacteristically gargantuan, even by Arcen standards. Josh, Zack, and I have all been working all weekend to get all this finished up, and in particular Sunday was an 18 hour day for Josh and Zack, and so far looks like a 25 hours day for me. But it’s all worth it —…
This one is actually fairly small, though it does have some good new story stuff in there, and more of Alden Ridge has been implemented. But the big thing is fixing a bunch of exceptions that would be thrown whenever you encountered NPC3. Now that’s fixed, and all the NPCs have their final graphics (though…
This one has a huge metric ton of stuff in it, including a lot of work on the final boss (still not done yet), story cutscenes and so forth all through the game, and even a new weapon that many people won’t find on their first playthrough. Probably my favorite thing in this particular release…
This one has a bunch more in-engine cutscenes of varying scope and importance, and several new comic panel cutscenes without voiceover (the voiceovers are used for key emotional scenes, but the comic panels are also used for area transitions to help set the sense of what an area is by giving you a painted view…
Shattered Haven goes to 1.0 on Monday, March 18th, 2013! Get the game from the Arcen site, Steam, Gog.com, GamersGate, or Green Man Gaming! An Environmental Puzzle Game About Family, Grit, and Survival Grays roam the land, largely in the absence of human interference. These aren’t your typical Zed — theirs is a very different…
This one has a couple of new in-engine cutscenes (as opposed to comic panel cutscenes). There’s a goodly number of both remaining to do, and I had hoped to get more of that done today, but instead there was just a huge wash of minor bugs and polish stuff I wanted to get done so…
This one is the second release of the day. It has a number of fixes and tweaks that are nice, but nothing too major. The big thing this time around is our work on implementing/polishing more story and voiceovers and comic panels, etc. We still have more than a little bit to do over the…
