This one has the usual variety of tweaks and fixes requested by players. Of particular note are some optional keybindings for turning on/off your highest/lowest efficiency reactors (micromanagers rejoice), and some options for multiplayer in terms of auto-building on allied planets. Astro Trains also now actually shoot their guns again, after having been accidentally muzzled…
DetailsChris Park and I sat down with Jenesee of The Grey Area Podcast for an in-depth chat on A Valley Without Wind, gaming in general, indie development, and of course all things Arcen Games as well. You should definitely set aside the 90 minutes for a listen; it was a wonderfully casual conversation with such…
DetailsAs promised, the source code (and runtime) for the old Interior Generator for the top-down version of AVWW has now been released. If you want to read about what it is and what it does, please see the link above — it’s described in great detail. And here is where you can download the source…
DetailsNot a full developer diary today — but I did want to share a couple of things since it’s been a while. We’ve got a few full diaries with videos and lots of details coming up before too long, but in the meantime there are a few things that I can show well with screenshots.…
DetailsThis release fixes a single logic issue which some players had been running into thanks to the Steam Summer Camp achievement for Tidalis. Essentially, if you won a game board with a combo, then it would not score that combo or give you achievements, because by definition it was waiting around half a second to…
DetailsAs of July 1st, 2011, we have so far raised and donated $20,680.30 for Child’s Play! That’s $2350.97 since our April update, all of which is going directly to the charity. We’ll keep everyone posted on how the donations are doing. Once again, we’re ecstatic to continue our on-going contribution! Especially pleased to be considered…
DetailsI’ve written before, in depth, on my process for iterative game design and why I use it. That blog post was a year and a half ago, however, when it was just Pablo, Phil, and myself and we hadn’t even started working on the first expansion to AI War yet. I was the only game…
DetailsThis one has kind of a hodgepodge of fixes and tweaks that players have requested. Several of them deal with warheads, and there’s also an added interface for finding science labs in the galaxy map, so hence the nametag of the release. This also fixes a scoreboard issue with defender mode games always showing up…
DetailsArcen Games is pleased to share the latest update for our procedurally-generated action-adventure game A Valley Without Wind. After a month of silence and head down work we’ve reached Alpha, which introduces a major shift to a side view perspective, adds underground caverns, and significantly increases general variation — among many other items. The change…
DetailsThis is the detailed diary that was promised in our big side view reveal post. It’s assumed that you’ve already read the post on the other end of that link; if not, a lot of this post isn’t going to make much sense, so make sure you do! Obviously the biggest news this week is…
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