On Friday we announced the first public alpha of multiplayer, and feedback on that was very positive except for one major point, which was could not have been received more negatively. The point in question is the “multiverse thing,” which is detailed here.What Happens Next With “The Multiverse Thing”Firstly to go ahead with the most…
This one has been a long time coming — in the works since October 7th, in fact. Ever since that date, Keith has been working almost solely on getting multiplayer up and going, and so that’s caused basically nothing to happen with the macro game parts of the game for that large swathe of beta. …
This one is our first one since coming back from the Thanksgiving holiday — hope everyone else who celebrates it had a great holiday also. There are a number of important bugfixes to this one, including the “leveling up takes off my suit” bug that was causing a number of people to die a fiery…
This one has been really quite a long time coming, hasn’t it? Unusually so, for us. Well, it’s packed to the gills with internal enhancements to both the enemy AI and multiplayer. We’re really getting close to being able to start our first opt-in multiplayer public alpha testing, which is very exciting for us. That’s…
Well, I’d hoped to have the new AI system ready for a release today or even yesterday, but things don’t always go to plan. At first I was just going to make it so that enemies could do multiple types of magic attacks. Then I decided to wrap in some of their general logic so…
Arcen Games is downright ecstatic to share the latest information regarding their procedurally-generated sidescrolling action adventure title of infinite proportions, A Valley Without Wind. AVWW’s beta will be on display at MineCon this weekend (Nov. 18-19), and to celebrate we’ll be raffling off over 100 prizes Friday and Saturday during floor hours including copies of…
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…
