Today is the day that the public beta finally begins! We’ve fixed up the website with new information, screenshots, and all the recent videos, including the one below. Most importantly you can now download the demo, and give the first six civilization levels a full crack if you think the game sounds interesting. The only…
As you journey through your own unique world of Environ, you’ll primarily be splitting your time between exterior landscapes, building interiors, and underground caverns. Not only that, but you’ll be traversing shards of nine different time periods, ranging from the prehistoric, to medieval, to modern, to far-future. Each has a very different feel, often different…
Note: This guide is now hugely out of date, and we’ve written a replacement that you can view here. A Valley Without Wind Getting Started GuideBy Josh Knapp The year was 888. Wind blasted snowfields have covered the world of Environ for centuries… Hey! Never mind all that, let’s just get to the game! If…
Over on Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jim Rossignol has published first impressions of A Valley Without Wind, which marks the first official media hands-on with the beta ahead of its imminent release. Lots of good stuff, but we’ll let Jim do the talking. Head over to one of our favorite gaming sites period and check it out. Also,…
It’s been a couple of weeks since our last update, but we’ve been hard at work! No video this time, but I wanted to tell you about a few things that are new or altered in the game, since we’re getting close to public beta. We’re hoping to hit that stage in about another week…
With the last day of PAX Prime several hours away, it may seem a bit late to mention that Arcen Games is in fact represented at the expo! While, unfortunately, we’re boothless as the timing didn’t work out for us to present a build of A Valley Without Wind; we still want to be a…
This time the video is all narration, and covers just about everything I would have said in a blog post after this past week. So very short post this time, and here’s the video: Video NotesGameplay footage after about 30 weeks of development. No music this time, sorry, as the voiceover runs throughout and is…
Arcen Games is wholly excited to announce new updates for their procedurally-generated exploration and survival game A Valley Without Wind. A ton of work has been put in over the past couple months, as the game edges closer to its first playable beta. Today includes reveals for brand new character models, the introduction of armor…
It’s been just about two months since we last did a video of AVWW, and we’ve been very busy! This is the first true “gameplay video” that we’ve ever done, where it’s all one long un-cut stretch of in-game footage rather than a trailer with chopped-up clips. This is also the first time we’ve ever…
The below images are not screenshots, but rather are un-processed original renders that then get scaled down to smaller size for actually being used in-game. So, hence the label “concept art.” That said, this is basically how they look except smaller when it comes to the in-game running around graphics, while the in-game portraits are…
