Arcen Games has a trio of items to share related to our upcoming procedurally-generated action adventure title A Valley Without Wind. CEO and lead programmer Chris Park has written up a new Q&A inspired by several questions from a user on our forums. In it, Park responds in length on a few major subjects regarding…
DetailsThanks to some excellent questions by Flatfingers in our forum, I’m reminded to talk a bit about the economy in AVWW, as well as crafting. Q: What will the process of crafting something feel like? Will it be a simple one-step action, or can it be a sequence of steps that benefit from knowledge and…
DetailsArcen Games is excited to share the latest update for our procedurally-generated survival action-adventure title A Valley Without Wind. Many new developments have taken place since last we checked in, highlighted by the addition of the new Soft Focus visual style, revamped Overworld sections, and tons of progress on Crafting, NPCs, Settlements and various other…
DetailsIt’s been a busy two weeks! This is the game at 14 weeks of development. The new screenshots are on the official AVWW page, and here’s the new video: Here’s a quick rundown of what is new since update #9, followed at the bottom by a few longer explanations of some of the items (overworld…
DetailsJames Murff of Big Download already gave AI War a full review back in 2009, and now he has given the same treatment to all three of the game’s expansions: The Zenith Remnant, Children of Neinzul, and Light of the Spire. Some of our favorite excerpts: “Each expansion is independent of the others and brings…
DetailsQuestion from leekster: I was just curios how much of the game is procedurally generated? Is it in the vein of Dwarf Fortress, where all of it is random? I understand monsters can’t be random due to all the animations and textures. But are spells randomly generated? Thanks for your help. Answer from Chris: Well,…
DetailsArcen Games is pleased to share a large update for its procedurally-generated survival adventure title A Valley Without Wind. Several additions and improvements have been made to the game, including weather, monsters, a new female character, and many other new visuals. Six new monsters have been introduced, looking to pursue and destroy characters who stray…
DetailsThis one fixes some of the balance issues with the blade spawners in the hands of the AI in particular. It also brute-force fixes older savegames, which should be a welcome relief to those affected. Enjoy! This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 4.000…
DetailsIt was just three days ago that I wrote the #9 preview for A Valley Without Wind, and mostly that’s still the best source for the goods on what all is new this time around. However, the big thing we were missing last time was a video, because of a few technical difficulties with the…
DetailsWe’re transitioning the video creation duties from myself to Erik, and in the process of that we’re having a few technical difficulties that are requiring some updates to his machine and so forth. So that’s delayed the video for our progress report #9, but I wanted to go ahead and do a written update (and…
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