This one is absolutely preposterously large in terms of its affect on the overall game experience. First of all, perhaps least interestingly from a gameplay perspective, the HUD graphics have been completely overhauled. Man does it look better now! Enchants At Last! Finally those little blue enchant containers have a purpose again. And if you’ve…
DetailsChris is quoted in the opening of Soren Johnson’s excellent game design article “Design success means knowing what to do with feedback.” Johnson goes in depth on how taking in feedback properly from a development team, testers, and/or player community is critical toward reaching success in a game’s design — specifically touching on how important…
DetailsThis one has another big batch of fixes and tweaks, on a variety of ships and parts of the interface. Some welcome changes to the Plasma Siege Starships as well as the Spirecraft Shield Bearers, for instance, as well as Spider Turrets. The biggest bunch of changes, however, is to the AI Carriers: how you’re…
DetailsThis one has a huge, huge number of miscellaneous fixes and tweaks; far too many to even try summarizing. Well, normally I would try, but it’s really late and I’m incredibly tired. So I’ll just point you to the link above, for most of it. Guardian Powers And Citybuilding Structures Are In! But the big…
DetailsWith A Valley Without Wind emerging out of over a month of heavy construction and significant changes, we’re entering a phase where the game is settling into a stable enough state for us to start chatting with the press about it once more. This week we’ve had a couple new interviews hit: Chris and I had an excellent…
DetailsThis one is a very small maintenance release that fixes two bugs — the more serious of which that falling very far in water could be death. We didn’t want people to have to work around that for very long! It also includes a great new battlefield music track for the battlefield missions, though, as…
DetailsThis one has a whole bunch of fixes and tweaks to a lot of random parts of the game, first of all. There’s also quite a bit of minor polish that has been applied, which will hopefully make the experience smoother both for experienced and for new players alike. The first big thing in this…
DetailsThis one has a bunch of tweaks and fixes that should be really welcome (almost all of them were player requests, after all). There’s actually quite a bit that is significant in here, such as many golems getting tweaks and turrets getting energy costs rebalanced almost across the board. But of course none of these…
DetailsThis one is another maintenance release of sorts, focusing on this same mantis issue from 0.565. On the bright side, not only does that issue seem truly dead now (knock on wood), but performance in general has seen yet another boost. On my OSX laptop I now routinely get 100+ fps, whereas at the start…
DetailsThis one is more or less a maintenance patch based on issues reported in this mantis issue. It should be a help to performance in general, though, even for folks not affected by the core reported issue. More to come soon. Enjoy! This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater…
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