It was just three days ago that I wrote the #9 preview for A Valley Without Wind, and mostly that’s still the best source for the goods on what all is new this time around. However, the big thing we were missing last time was a video, because of a few technical difficulties with the…
We’re transitioning the video creation duties from myself to Erik, and in the process of that we’re having a few technical difficulties that are requiring some updates to his machine and so forth. So that’s delayed the video for our progress report #9, but I wanted to go ahead and do a written update (and…
Arcen Games would like to pass along word of a new video, developer journal and new release info for its procedurally-generated action adventure title A Valley Without Wind. We have made the significant decision to push back the first public release of AVWW to what we had originally planned for beta. For one, we feel…
It pains me to say that we’re delaying the first public version, but Keith and I spent a good while talking about it today, and we agree it’s for the best. We’ve decided to scrap the idea of a public alpha, and instead are going to start with a public beta. In practical terms, what…
When it comes to the perma-death mechanic, the one thing I want to make most clear is that this has no bearing on the difficulty of the game, despite what some folks might expect. In most games with perma-death, that means that the game is very hard. How difficult or easy this game is depends…
This video is just a simple lighting test showing off our new way of handling light in AVWW. The older method, using the z buffer, is still available for lower-end graphics cards and computers, but this new model looks way better, and on most computers won’t use that much more CPU/GPU! What We Were Doing:…
Here’s the latest video: The latest screens are collected on the A Valley Without Wind page. What’s New In This VideoThis is the game after 10 weeks of development — we missed a few weeks in there for videos because we were really tangled up with it! Quite a number of the things in this…
This is going to be a three-post day, to hopefully. make up for having neglected the blog for three weeks. In the last post, I talked about the design process for A Valley Without Wind, at least at a high level — that’s a complex topic, so I might write more on that in the…
The soundtrack for “A Valley Without Wind” is getting off to a great start. For those of you who have heard some of the music in the trailers, you’ll notice the key component in all the pieces: the 8-bit melody. It’s a sound that is not only fun to play with, but nostalgic for any…
Arcen Games is pleased to share the latest info and footage for its procedurally-generated action-adventure title A Valley Without Wind. This week we reach a multiplayer benchmark, introduce the Energy Lance spell, implement the minimap feature into the HUD, add new regions, buildings, objects and more. Early multiplayer testing has gone well. In our first…
