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…
This one is one that we decided to push out today because there are a few critical balance tweaks and bugfixes that players could really use. Mission System Preview In terms of the core feature of this new version, the missions: the general framework is complete and in place, but there is currently only one…
This one is actually two huge changes to the game. Continents Previously, the world was just one big landmass, with smaller pieces of ocean stuck here and there. It was consistent with the story mythos about a 4D-scrambled world, but it was only so interesting. And worst of all, it made the dividing lines for…
Yesterday we received the awesome news that A Valley Without Wind has been voted into the top 100 of IndieDB’s Indie of the Year 2011, and is onto the second round. The game can be found in the “upcoming games” section under the “adventure” category. We’re both excited and humbled to still be in the running alongside some…
This one is another major game-flow changer. First off, I should note that there are also some important bugfixes in here, mostly relating to multiplayer. That’s why we went ahead and pushed this out in the middle of the day, rather than just waiting until later in the day when the rest of our new…
There is nothing subtle or incremental about this one. All the stats for characters and monsters have been reworked internally, and as part of that we’ve redone the general balance and flow of combat. Enemy spells tend to be a lot slower now, but more plentiful and more frequent. Trash mobs have a lot of…
Arcen Games is pleased to pass along new information regarding our procedurally-generated, post-apocalyptic 2D sidescrolling action/adventure title A Valley Without Wind. The game has reached yet another major milestone as the multiplayer component has entered alpha and for the first time is publicly available for testing. For those interested in opting into co-operative play in…
This one has a whole list of fixes for multiplayer AVWW, to get rid of most of the small annoyances that have been reported. In other news, we have plans for how to deal with the one major annoyance in the next few days, so stay tuned on that. But we did want to give…
