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…
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). …
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…
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,…
It’s been argued that there is no such thing as “original” music anymore. That everything you hear on the radio, films, games, commercials, musicals… all of it is just a recycled revision of something already written. This copycat theory is incredibly troubling for me as a composer because I’ve dedicated my life to writing, and…
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…
[Cary, NC] — February 4, 2011 — Arcen Games, developer of the cult classic and ever-evolving space strategy game AI War: Fleet Command, is excited to announce its third full title A Valley Without Wind, a procedurally-generated action-adventure game coming this year to PC and Mac. AVWW is a complete departure from what Arcen has previously…
So I promised a first screenshot on Friday, didn’t I? How foolish of me. Not only did the release of AI War 5.0 / Light of the Spire take longer than expected, but also we ran into some issues with the art that have set us back some. It turns out that a purely tile-based…
