Just in time for Minecon, here’s the latest and greatest trailer for the game! Erik and his friend Kevin really pulled out all the stops with this one, and I think it’s our best-put-together trailer yet. It’s also far superior to the prior trailer in that it shows off a lot of the new spells,…
Ever since beta started, we’ve hardly gone a business day without updates, but here we’ve now gone a week since the last AVWW update. Fear not! This isn’t the start of some new trend. It’s just been a confluence of events. First of all, I was out of the office last Thursday and Friday due…
Note: Even this second guide is now hugely out of date, and we’ve written a replacement that you can view here. It’s been a month and a half since our first Getting Started Guide for the game, and so much has changed since then! The old version is now confusingly wrong, as it refers to…
This one has some pretty major internal changes in terms of how the AI functions for the monsters in the game. I’m not completely done with those upgrades yet, but already the AI has some cool new capabilities. For one thing, enemies can now change behaviors as their level gets higher. So, for instance, now…
This one has two new spell scrolls and one new spellgem. It also has a couple of tweaks and bugfixes. The most interesting thing about these new spell scrolls is that these are the first two that are offensively-oriented in a direct fashion. Previously scrolls were all logistical, healing, or movement type effects, except for…
This one isn’t what I’d planned on doing today, but I’m really glad that I took this detour — and I think that even experienced AVWW players will be, too. The big new feature in this version is the “reference window,” which lets you get at full stats for crafting, civ-level unlocks, and materials. No…
This one is one that I’ve really been looking forward to ever since beta began: the intro mission for the game is now complete! Pending feedback and further testing, of course, but so far it seems pretty good to me. Intro Mission Notes The goal for the intro mission is to give new players a…
This one has a couple of pretty significant balance tweaks that folks should really appreciate. Firstly, the Fallen Spire exogalactic strike forces are a bit better tuned. Secondly, the youngling nanoswarms now really are better at their job of hitting a lot of targets. And thirdly, the AI fortress health has been halved, making them…
This one is a pretty sizable one in terms of what it changes about the “feel” of the game. The big new thing for existing players is the elemental damage system: spells each belong to one of six elements (fire, water, earth, air, light, and entropy), matching the colors of the gems used to create…
This one is another one that has been several days in the making because of the intense number of internal changes that have been a part of it. The recently-revised multiplayer model is continuing to get further along, and as a part of that we’ve done some refactors to help make for (longer-term) fewer bugs…
