Here’s the latest video: New this week: more buildings, more general objects, and some additional regions, as well as a lot more population scripts for the existing regions. There’s also a new Energy Lance spell, which makes cutting through big lines of objects or enemies easier (but it does lower damage to actual individual enemies). …
Chris sat down with Nick Puleo of Co-Optimus for a more in-depth look at the recently revealed multiplayer and co-op features for A Valley Without Wind. In it, they discuss MMORPG aspects, retention of the isolation theme, solutions on playing together with varying levels, avoiding the grind, the first season of LOST, and much more.…
Arcen Games continues its weekly report on its procedurally-generated action-adventure title A Valley Without Wind with information on the game’s multiplayer, server support, world map, regions, windstorms and more. Multiplayer is coming to AVWW through the support of servers. The plan is for mainly co-op play, but there’s room for pvp content if the server…
This week there is less to visually show you for A Valley Without Wind, but it’s been a hugely productive week nonetheless. An updated screenshot gallery is now on the main AVWW page. And here’s the latest video: Multiplayer Perhaps the most exciting thing in progress at the moment is multiplayer. It’s been almost two…
It’s been a productive week! The difference in the feel of the game between last week and this week is pretty astronomically huge, which is awesome because I spent at least half my time on non-AVWW business stuff this week. That means future weeks will go even faster — but I digress. Here’s the new…
We have another sizable interview on A Valley Without Wind to pass along. Chris and I got together with James Murff of BigDownload to chat about Arcen and our upcoming game in detail. Topics touched upon include world-building, comparisons to other titles, pre-order plans and more. Also packed with the feature are some exclusive screens…
So! It’s been less than a week, and a lot has changed. I’ll start by showing the latest footage of the game: The reaction to last week’s video and screens was mostly positive, particularly when folks saw shots reflecting the actual in-game resolution, but there were common concerns about the buildings, the character’s running animation,…
Chris recently sat down with RPS’s Phill Cameron for a nice and extensive two-part interview on all things A Valley Without Wind. There are new details and a lot more in-depth explanation on the features we talked about in our recent announcement. The pieces contain a couple of new screenshots put together exclusively for the…
Figured out a lot of stuff today for improving the art, and actually improved the framerate massively while I was at it. See above, and click for the fullsized screenshot (from the Unity Editor) if you like. Instead of rendering quite so many short, tame grasses, I’ve taken the original renderings that I did and…
This was originally posted in a comment thread over at Gamers With Jobs, but I’ve been meaning to talk about the art pipeline for A Valley Without Wind for a while over here, too. So here we go! For those curious on how I’m doing the art, it’s a pretty huge pipeline: – Characters and…
