This one completes the last of our features for the official 1.2 release, and it’s yet another big one. Dispatch Missions And Gifts To NPCs I’m going to try to do a brief, quick, simple rundown here. All those profession books and “mood gifts” you’ve been collecting for the last couple of versions? You can…
This one is yet another biggie. We’re certainly having a goodly streak of those. Procedurally Random Spells Get A Lot More Varied As of last night, it was 48 distinct possible modifiers of 18 unique kinds, according to Keith. Then he went and added a few more today, so I’m not sure what we’re up…
This one is perhaps surprisingly substantial given the scope of what was released just yesterday. Balance/Bugfixes For The New Stuff From Yesterday First of all, there’s some various balance/bugfix stuff relating to the new levels system, etc. Aside from one major gaffe with not saving the stockpiles when you exit the game, this has been…
This one is as ginormous as they come, even for us here at Arcen. Where to even begin? Out With Per-Continent Tiers, In With Global Levels At the broadest level, the idea here is that it’s more of a traditional RPG flow now. None of that “New Game+” stuff when you get to a new…
This one adds a couple of last little tweaks in to the fixes we already had in 1.102 yesterday, and now this is our hotfix version — essentially we felt a couple of these changes were important enough to go out to all customers immediately rather than waiting until the official version of 1.2 comes…
This one is pretty much a bugfix and slight polish version. If things look solid here, then we’ll do a hotfix official version tomorrow — so let us know if you see any problems or if everything looks okay! Internally we’ve been mapping out what we’re going to do for 1.2, and work on that…
As of June 15th, 2012, we have so far raised and donated $34,494.20 for Child’s Play! That’s $3752.31 since our December update, all of which has already gone directly to the charity. In 2011 we managed to raise a total of $20,212.18, which smashed our 2010 numbers and well more than doubled our original goal…
Whew! It’s been a busy month and a half since A Valley Without Wind 1.0 launched. The release notes are available online in full, and I won’t even attempt to summarize all that has happened during this period. Microsoft Word informs me that the release notes are about 48,500 words long (the equivalent of 194…
This one is the third release candidate of the day, and hopefully the last release prior to the official 1.1 version. There were a couple of more performance issues still present in the prior RC version that we’ve now fixed, but beyond that all other issues that we’ve deemed important enough to go into 1.1…
This one is the second release candidate of the day. There are still a couple of very teeny things we want to fix up this morning, but aside from that this is going to be the 1.1 version unless someone finds a problem. So if there’s a problem, we definitely want to know about it!…
