This one is another really major release in a lot of ways, as it finally implements some major performance and render-capability improvements that I’ve been wanting to do since even before we started beta. I’d been avoiding these things since they tend to be a time sink, but we’re now hitting the point where there…
Happy New Year, everyone! This one is our first update of 2012, and it lays the groundwork for a lot of new things to come. Urban Predator First of all, there’s a cool new miniboss called the urban predator, and it’s basically this big hovering spaceship-looking thing. Flaming exhaust shoots out of the bottom of…
If you’ve enjoyed the music you’ve heard in A Valley Without Wind so far, then check out Pablo’s Sound Cloud page with a preview of some new tracks! http://soundcloud.com/pablo-vega-music/sets/a-valley-without-wind
I’m a bit late on posting this, but I just wanted to say thanks to all of our supporters who made this year our most successful yet as an indie developer. We’re all hugely grateful, and hope that you have a happy, restful holiday season with your family. And that you have plenty of time…
As of December 23rd, 2011, we have so far raised and donated $30,741.89 for Child’s Play! That’s $2,962.77 since our September update, all of which has already gone directly to the charity. That closes out the year with $20,212.18 having been raised and donated in 2011 — smashing our 2010 numbers, and well more than…
This one is a really substantial release, so it took us a couple of days. Enemy Weakspots First of all are the new enemy weakspots, which really add a lot to the game — shooting spells into a skelebot’s head now does 2x damage, while shooting it in the legs slows it down, for example. …
This one is actually a series of two releases. The first was purely a bugfix version to avoid more people having issues with world corruption that could happen in 0.552. The second release has new tweaks and features, mainly centering around mana recharge and how mana can be expended. This will have an effect on…
This one includes a number of new things, including various balance and bugfix items that players noted from the prior version. The changes to fire touch and the way that the class-based spell cooldowns work should be particularly welcome. And the reference info and other in-game text is now up to date with all the…
For the last week, we’ve been working on power-coding. That took us through multiplayer sync models and enemy/character stats balance, to a whole new health subsystem, to the addition of continents and a whole new mana subsystem, to a new mission system, and finally ending up with the removal of tiers, the complete revamping of…
This one is the last of our power-coding releases — at least in this stretch. The framework of everything we wanted to accomplish in that stretch of power-coding is now done, and now it comes more to balance, polish, and putting some meat on the new bones. New Crafting Model, No More Tiers It was…
