New WIP screenshots to share! These ones including some new art by the awesome Phil, who you might recall as the artist behind Tidalis, AI War 2.0, and The Zenith Remnant. Phil has mostly been working on freelance work with other indies since Arcen hit financial difficulties last year when Tidalis got off to a…
So, last week we briefly showed screenshots of the new world map and character select screens. We’re still a few weeks away from being able to do our next large gameplay videos and huge diary entries (we really want to show off a ton of things in those all at once), but here’s a few…
Chris Park and I sat down with Jenesee of The Grey Area Podcast for an in-depth chat on A Valley Without Wind, gaming in general, indie development, and of course all things Arcen Games as well. You should definitely set aside the 90 minutes for a listen; it was a wonderfully casual conversation with such…
As promised, the source code (and runtime) for the old Interior Generator for the top-down version of AVWW has now been released. If you want to read about what it is and what it does, please see the link above — it’s described in great detail. And here is where you can download the source…
Not a full developer diary today — but I did want to share a couple of things since it’s been a while. We’ve got a few full diaries with videos and lots of details coming up before too long, but in the meantime there are a few things that I can show well with screenshots.…
I’ve written before, in depth, on my process for iterative game design and why I use it. That blog post was a year and a half ago, however, when it was just Pablo, Phil, and myself and we hadn’t even started working on the first expansion to AI War yet. I was the only game…
Arcen Games is pleased to share the latest update for our procedurally-generated action-adventure game A Valley Without Wind. After a month of silence and head down work we’ve reached Alpha, which introduces a major shift to a side view perspective, adds underground caverns, and significantly increases general variation — among many other items. The change…
This is the detailed diary that was promised in our big side view reveal post. It’s assumed that you’ve already read the post on the other end of that link; if not, a lot of this post isn’t going to make much sense, so make sure you do! Obviously the biggest news this week is…
There comes a point in every good game’s life where it stops feeling like a prototype, and starts feeling downright fun. For AVWW, that time is now, and it came about because of a fundamental shift we made to the game: rather than being a top-down 2D game in a faux perspective that is common…
Please understand that my intent is not to tease, here — a lot of game companies give the barest hints of information, and try to drive you nuts with speculation and extrapolation. Folks familiar with Arcen know that’s not our style. That said, what I do want to tell you is that there are several…
