Wanted to drop a quick note that our good friend and excellent indie game designer/developer Cliff Harris has announced the beta launch for his new game Gratuitous Tank Battles. As RPS notes, the game is a mix of RTS, simulation, and tower defense. It’s set as if World War I never came to an end — with trench warfare evolving through…
DetailsSo… today for me has been pretty much all about the documentation. I wanted to go ahead and get this done so that Erik could start using it in his emails to press. I had something similar for AI War that was hugely useful for explaining to new players (and to press) just what it…
DetailsThis one has been almost a week in the making, so it stands to reason that it’s massive. And as releases go, even for us this one is particularly massive. It wasn’t until today that I realized it had almost been a week since our last release… or that it has literally been a month…
DetailsThis one is another big one. For one, there’s a bunch of new art: lots of new furniture and other small objects, lots of new cavern backgrounds that look really cool, and so on. These sorts of things really help to breathe some extra life into the exploration itself, so I’m always happy to have…
DetailsThis one is an enormously, enormously cool release. First off, lots more balance tweaks, and that annoying group-move bug was fixed, among other things. All thanks to Keith, of course. Next, two existing mechanics have been united under the generalized new banner of “hacking the AI:” knowledge raiding and superterminals. As such their mechanics have…
DetailsA better title for this one would actually have been “There was a ladder here. It’s gone now.” But I couldn’t resist using one of my favorite Silent Hill 2 quotes a little more overtly. This release comes quickly on the heels of the prior one, and does a few things. First of all, it…
DetailsThis one, once again, is primarily focused on difficulty. To be more specific, the lack of spread of combat difficulties in the recent versions. This game has always been designed to cater to a diverse crowd in terms of skill level, but in recent version we had a lot of combat difficulties suited for low-skill…
DetailsI’ll be attending GDC this week in San Francisco to get educated, meet-up with some awesome indie developers, and generally disappoint those who were hoping to see Chris instead. 😉 If you’re going to be at or around the conference during the week and would like to get together to chat, play AVWW, or just drink together in…
DetailsTwo days into beta phase 3, and now we have this one. It’s a fairly good-sized one, though I would have liked to have been able to pack in more spells and such. But we did manage to get one new spell in here, along with a raft of other improvements. Missions Changes Rescue NPC…
DetailsArcen Games is pleased to announce the downloadable PC/Mac title A Valley Without Wind — our fast-paced, open world sidescroller of nearly limitless proportions — has entered its final beta phase, with an official launch now in sight. To celebrate, a brand new trailer for the game has been released (best viewed in 1080p), along…
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