Version 1.031 is out, despite some slowdowns on my part from helping get the awesome new expansion for AI War out the door. This new version improves the art in particular for the turrets, as well as the other stationary centerpieces, to match the newer style of ships that was introduced back in July. There…
Version 1.030 is out, and is a relatively smallish update that is nonetheless the start of a lot more goodness to come. This one fixes some issues surrounding massive numbers of births and clonings that could cause issues in certain savegames. Also a fix for selling resources if you have fewer than 800. By the…
Not really, and certainly not financially. But apparently we’ve hit a point where My Work Here Is Done. Let me explain. Ever since I was introduced to Boatmurdered, which is an epic LP (Let’s Play) for Dwarf Fortress, I’ve wanted to create a game that could inspire something similar. To me, Boatmurdered is one of…
UPDATE 10/31/2014: Since the name of the game has changed to Stars Beyond Reach, and the logo has changed, I’ve come back and updated this post to reflect that. Everything else was already accurate, so there was no point having any confusion. The old name was Spectral Empire. Stars Beyond Reach is our upcoming 4X…
Last June I wrote a postmortem of AI War, which also wound up being a form of history of Arcen as a whole. But now a whole year has passed, and we’ve released Skyward Collapse: Nihon no Mura, Bionic Dues, and The Last Federation in that time. We also have a lot more data on…
Skyward Collapse and Shattered Haven have both gotten official linux support this week, but that’s not all that’s been going on. The Arcen Store has had a visual and functional overhaul and now both looks better and works better. There are a number of things that are easier for me on the back-end, but more…
Version 1.027 is out, and has some very nice goodies! The biggest thing here is the increased power of a number of the dispatches — not just those related to the RCI at planets, but several of the others, as well. There are also 4 new dispatches, which allow you to affect RCI negatively at…
Version 1.026 is out, and contains a number of things that fans have been asking for, as well as a number of important fixes. There are some overall improvements to the solar map AI in this update, and there is also an overhaul of the ship graphics and their ships. There are also new Advanced…
The Last Federation popped up today in Steam’s Summer Sale community choice vote, and the indie space games group it was placed in (pictured) ended up winning out with 55% of the votes. That means the game is 40% off for the next 8 hours, after which it will return to 25% off for the remainder of the sale.…
As many of you have noticed, the forums also now share the awesome planetcracker background from The Last Federation. Cathrine Langwagen really outdid herself with this one, I have to say! Anyhow, since some of you were asking about wallpapers, here is a massive 3200×1800 png of it — enjoy!
