This 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…
DetailsThere comes a point in every good game’s life where it stops feeling like a prototype, and starts feeling downright fun. For AVWW, that time is now, and it came about because of a fundamental shift we made to the game: rather than being a top-down 2D game in a faux perspective that is common…
DetailsPlease understand that my intent is not to tease, here — a lot of game companies give the barest hints of information, and try to drive you nuts with speculation and extrapolation. Folks familiar with Arcen know that’s not our style. That said, what I do want to tell you is that there are several…
DetailsArcen Games is pleased to show off several new additions, improvements, and changes for our upcoming survival action-adventure title A Valley Without Wind. We have a variety of items to update on this week, including interior generation, a reworking of the game’s story and setting, settlement changes, implementation of new features such as Explorer NPCs…
DetailsIt’s been a while since our last update — we’ve been really busy, as you might expect. The game has now been in development for 17 weeks, but this week we don’t have a new fully-produced video mainly because we’re running short on time. However, a number of the new animation updates that are in…
DetailsI’ll have a full developer diary #11 (no video this week, though) posted in the next day or so. However, first I want to talk about interior floorplan generation. This is something that I’m going to release as an open source example program in a month or two, once it’s fully polished. This past week…
DetailsHas It Really Been Two Years!? It seems like just yesterday that AI War 1.0 made it’s public debut, but it’s actually been two years. And what a busy two years! In that time we’ve released three new expansions, changed the game to the Unity 3D engine, added Mac OSX support, created our puzzle game…
DetailsBrutal Gamer’s Amy Nelson followed up her Tidalis review by interviewing us on all things Arcen and indie games. We discuss several topics including potential consoles/handheld devices we’ve considered for our games, as well as our selling points for A Valley Without Wind. Here’s one of the questions and responses from the piece: “AI War:…
DetailsAmy Nelson of Brutal Gamer has taken the time to have a look at the Mac version of our puzzler Tidalis. In it she touches on the amount of variety in the game, as well as discussing both the more intense and zen-like modes she came across and how they compliment one another. She concludes…
DetailsArcen 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…
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