This one‘s visible changes mainly focus on improving the salvage mechanic introduced in 7.011 based on feedback during the week. That largely takes the form of excluding various ship-death situations from generating salvage: zombie-mode ships dying no longer give the AI salvage, and reclaimed ships no longer give anyone salvage. More importantly, the AI no…
This one carries a number of rather significant econ-related changes that have been brewing for a while: Now that hacking has been around long enough and seems to be welcome, we’ve moved ahead with the combination of metal and crystal (into just metal) so that hacking can move up into the main resource bar. Crystal…
This one is a small bugfixing update to deal with some critical issues that came to my attention just this morning. Between working on The Last Federation (and, before that, Bionic Dues) and a third daughter coming along in September there hasn’t been room in my schedule for AI War coding. That said, I fully…
The holidays are coming up fast, and so ’tis the season to start thinking about gifts for friends and family. Arcen’s catalog of games has really swelled this year, and you may have missed some of our titles. Or you may be new to Arcen, and may have overlooked our excellent older titles. Here’s a…
There seem to be dozens of downloadable game discounts and promotions running this week, and it so happens that we are involved in a few: AI War and Zenith Remnant featured in Bundle-in-a-Box — A bundle full of indie strategy games including AI War for a minimum of $1.99, with extras such as the game’s…
As of today, we have so far raised and donated $44,597.02 for Child’s Play! That’s $10,102.82 since our last update, all of which has already gone directly to the charity. Our AI War: Children of Neinzul donation goal was originally $14,000.00, and in the end we were able to reach 317% of that goal More…
I think it goes without saying that we have the greatest fans in the world. Arcen Games has been around since 2009, and from the very beginning, we’ve had amazing fans that have continued to support us throughout the years. As a small token of our appreciation for the support you’ve given us, we’re releasing…
Our Humble Bundle Weekly Sale, which kicked off last Thursday, has now surpassed 40,000 sales and $135,000 earned! With three days* remaining in the sale (at time of writing), we’re still trying to get the word out to everyone who might be interested in owning our entire catalog for a Lincoln and change. So special thanks…
Pay what you want for awesome games from Arcen Games. Support charity. Six spellbinding games and an abundance of DLC. The Humble Weekly Sale features a new deal every Thursday. Be sure to jump on this amazing offer before it’s gone! This week, pay what you want for AI War: Fleet Command and 5 DLC…
This one is another step forward for the winner of the “Big Items For 8.0” poll. Specifically, the addition of two new forms of nasty trick to play on the AI by exploiting its poor, defenseless networks: 1) Sabotage – blow up forts, forcefields, black hole machines, etc. All with no AIP-on-death or other negative…
